The Red Shoes
Gershwin Theatre
Previews Began: November 2, 1993
Opening Night: December 16, 1993
Closing Night: December 19, 1993
Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Bob Merrill
Marsha Norman
Book: Marsha Norman
A girl who longs to be a ballerina is torn between an imperious ballet impresario and the young composer she loves, in this musical adaptation of the Michael Powell film based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.
Musical Numbers
Act One
Swan Lake…….Irina Boronskaya, Ivan Boleslavsky,
Grisha Ljubov, Company
I Make the Rules………………………Boris Lermontov
The Audition…………………………………Victoria Page
Corps de Ballet…………….Grisha Ljubov, Company
When It Happens to You………………Julian Craster
Top of the Sky……Boris Lermontov, Victoria Page
Ballet Montage……………..Victoria Page, Company
It’s a Fairy Tale….Boris Lermontov, Julian Craster,
Grisha Ljubov, Sergei Ratov, Dmitri
Be Somewhere……………………………..Julian Craster
The Rag……………………….Grisha Ljubov, Company
Am I to Wish Her Love…………….Boris Lermontov,
Victoria Page
Act Two
Do Svedanaya…………Grisha Ljubov, Sergei Ratov,
Company
Come Home……………………………..Boris Lermontov
When You Dance for a King……..Boris Lermontov,
Victoria Page
The Ballet of the Red Shoes………………….The Girl,
the Shoemaker,
the Young Man