Pipe Dream
Sam S. Shubert Theatre
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Opening Night: November 30, 1955
Closing Night: June 30, 1956
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
A tale of hard times and star-crossed love on Cannery Row. The musical is populated with longshoremen and “ladies of the evening”, who weave a poignant story of the friendship and romance that blossoms among the loners and runaways searching for their dreams on the Monterey wharf. The show focuses on a marine biologist, Doc, and his relationship with a downtrodden defiant waif, Suzy.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
ACT ONE
All Kinds of People……………………………..Doc, Hazel
The Tide Pool (To Suzy)………………….Doc, Hazel, Mac
All Kinds of People (Reprise)………………..Jim Blaikey
Everybody’s Got a Home But Me…………………….Suzy
A Lopsided Bus…………………Mac, Hazel, Kitty, Sonya,
the Flophouse Gang
Bums’ Opera…………………………Fauna, Joe, Pancho,
the Flophouse Gang
The Man I Used To Be……………………………Doc, Slim
Sweet Thursday………………………………………Fauna
Suzy Is a Good Thing………………………….Fauna, Suzy
All At Once You Love Her…………….Doc, Suzy, Esteban
ACT TWO
The Happiest House on the Block…………..Fauna, Girls
The Party That We’re Gonna Have Tomorrow
Night…………………..Mac, the people of Cannery Row
The Party Gets Going……………………………Orchestra
I Am a Witch….Fauna, Agnes, Marjorie, Beulah, Mable
Will You Marry Me?……………………..Suzy, Fauna, Doc
Thinkin’………………………………………………..Hazel
All At Once You Love Her (Reprise)………………..Fauna
How Long?…………………Fauna, Doc, Flophouse Boys,
Bear Flag Girls
The Next Time It Happens………………………Suzy, Doc
Sweet Thursday (Reprise)……………………….Company
Finale……………………………………………..Company
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
William Johnson Doc
Helen Traubel Fauna
Mike Kellin Hazel
Judy Tyler Suzy
G. D. Wallace Mac
Marilyn Bradley Emma
Ruby Braff Pancho
Warren Brown Alec
John Call Ray Busch
Rudolfo Cornejo Pedro
Pat Creighton Cho Cho Sen
Sandra Devlin Sumi
Scotty Engel Johnny Carriagra
Annabelle Gold Sonya
Kenneth Harvey Joe
Jayne Heller Millicent Henderson
Keith Kaldenberg Red
Patty Karkalits Weirde
Warren Kemmerling Eddie
Gene Kevin Slick
Ruth Kobart Hilda
Kazimir Kokic A Waiter
Marvin Krauter Fred
Jerry LaZarre Esteban
Joseph Leon Sonny Boy
Jackie McElroy Mable
Nicholas Orloff Dizzy
Guy Raymond George Herman
Marsha Reynolds Bubbles
Steve Roland Bill
Sigyn Basha
Mildred Slavin Beulah
Rufus Smith Jim Blaikey
Hobe Streiford Whitey
Temple Texas Agnes
Calvin Thomas Dr. Ormondy
Louise Troy Marjorie
Don Weissmuller Slim
Patricia Wilson Harriet
Jenny Workman Kitty
Understudies: Richard Mercado (Johnny Carriagra, Pedro)