The Life
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Previews Began: April 8, 1997
Opening Night: April 26, 1997
Closing Night: June 7, 1998
Music: Cy Coleman
Lyrics: Ira Gasman
Book: Cy Coleman
Ira Gasman
David Newman
The pulsating life on the Times Square streets in the 1980s-where everything had a price, especially sex -the garish topless bars, the transvestite joints, the hookers who worked the sidewalks at the bidding of their pimps.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
Check It Out!…………………………………………..Company
Use What You Got…………………………….Jojo, Company
A Lovely Day To Be Out of Jail…………….Queen, Sonja
A Piece of the Action……………………………….Fleetwood
The Oldest Profession…………………………………….Sonja
Don’t Take Much……………………………………..Memphis
Go Home……………………………………………Queen, Mary
You Can’t Get To Heaven…………………..Queen, Sonja,
Street Evangelists
My Body…….Frenchie, Chichi, Tracy, Carmen, Sonja,
Queen, April
Why Don’t They Leave Us Alone………Oddjob, Bobby,
Silky, Slick, April,
Snickers, Carmen,
Chichi, Frenchie,
Queen, Sonja, Tracy
Easy Money……………………………Mary, Jojo, Fleetwood
He’s No Good……………………………………………….Queen
I’m Leaving You……………………………………………Queen
The Hooker’s Ball…………………………….Lacy, Company
ACT TWO
Step Right Up……………Enrique, Slick, Oddjob, Bobby
Mr. Greed………….Jojo, Bobby, Enrique, Oddjob, Slick
My Way Or the Highway………………Memphis, Queen
People Magazine…………………………………….Lou, Mary
We Had A Dream…………………………………………Queen
Use What You Got (Reprise)…………….Mary, Lou, Jojo
Someday’ Is For Suckers………..Sonja, Frenchie, April,
Shatellia, Carmen, Chichi
My Friend………………………………………….Queen, Sonja
We Gotta Go………………………………Fleetwood, Queen
Check It Out! (Reprise)…………………………….Company
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Vernel Bagneris Lacy
Mark Bove Bobby
Cop
Monte Hustler
Ensemble
Chuck Cooper Memphis
Felicia Finley April
Ensemble
Chris Ghelfi Ensemble
Michael Gregory Gong Oddjob
Shoeshine
Monte Hustler
Ensemble
Katy Grenfell Frenchie
Ensemble
Sam Harris Jojo
Rich Hebert Lou
Pamela Isaacs Queen
Stephanie Michels Doll House Dancer
Ensemble
Kevin Ramsey Fleetwood
Judine Richárd Tracy
Street Evangelist
Ensemble
Rudy Roberson Silky
Enrique
Street Evangelist
Ensemble
Lynn Sterling Carmen
Ensemble
Mark Anthony Taylor Slick
Shatellia
Street Evangelist
Monte Hustler
Ensemble
Gordon Joseph Weiss Snickers
Lillias White Sonja
Sharon Wilkins Chichi
Ensemble
Bellamy Young Mary
Swing: Tracy Nicole Chapman
Understudies: Michael Brian (Jojo, Lou, Snickers), Kimberly Hawthorne (Queen)
REPLACEMENTS
Joshua Bergasse Shoeshine
Oddjob
Ensemble
Michael Brian Jojo
Christopher F. Davis Slick
Shatellia
Street Evangelist
Brian Lane Green Jojo
Kate Levering April
Ensemble
Rommy Sandhu Ensemble
James Stovall Memphis
Swing: Carla Renata Williams
Standby: Sal Viviano (Jojo)
Understudies: Heather Brown (Queen), David Aron Damane (Fleetwood, Memphis, Lacy), Kate Levering (Mary), Devin Richards (Fleetwood, Memphis, Lacy), Carla Renata Williams (Sonja)
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