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Anyone can Whistle (1964)

Anyone Can Whistle
Show Synopsis

Written in 1964, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. A musical with book by Laurents which explored the ideas of noncomformity, political corruption, and the nebulous definition of sanity. When Cora Hoover Hooper, the hated mayoress of a small town, is faced with a town bankruptcy, she concocts a fake "miracle" of water-from-a-rock to bring in tourism. Unfortunately, during the tourist rush, the inmates from the local asylum "for the socially pressured," the Cookie Jar, escape. A Doctor Hapgood surfaces who says he can identify the "cookies" and separate them from the "sane" members of society, but when the cookies' nurse, Fay Apple, refuses to identify her charges and then falls in love with Hapgood, trouble ensues.
Original Broadway Production

Opened April 4, 1964 at the Majestic Theatre
Ran for 9 performances
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Arthur Laurents
Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and Diana Krasny
Directed by Arthur Laurents
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by Herbert Ross
Scenery Designed by William and Jean Eckart
Costumes Designed by Theoni V. Aldredge
Lighting Designed by Jules Fisher
Dance Music Arrangements by Betty Walberg
Musical Direction and Vocal Arrangements by Herbert Greene
Orchestrations by Don Walker

Original Broadway Cast

Sandwich Man
Jeff Killion
Baby Joan
Jeanne Tanzy
Mrs. Schroeder
Peg Murray
Treasurer Cooly
Arnold Soboloff
Chief Magruder
James Frawley
Comptroller Schub
Gabriel Dell
Cora Hoover Hooper
Angela Lansbury
The Boys
Sterling Clark
Harvey Evans
Larry Roquemore
Tucker Smith
Fay Apple
Lee Remick
J. Bowden Hapgood
Harry Guardino
Dr. Detmold
Don Doherty
George
Larry Roquemore
June
Janet Hayes
John
Harvey Evans
Martin
Lester Wilson
Old Lady
Eleonore Treiber
Telegraph Boy
Alan Johnson
Osgood
Georgia Creighton
Cookies, Nurses, Deputies, Townspeople, Pilgrims, Tourists
Susan Borree
Georgia Creighton
Janet Hayes
Bettye Jenkins
Patricia Kelly
Barbara Lang
Paula Lloyd
Barbara Monte
Odette Phillips
Hanne-Marie Reiner
Eleonore Treiber
Sterling Clark
Eugene Edwards
Harvey Evans
Dick Ensslen
Loren Hightower
Alan Johnson
Jeff Killion
Jack Murray
William Reilly
Larry Roquemore
Tucker Smith
Don Stewart
Lester Wilson
Musical Numbers
Overture
I'm Like the Bluebird
Me and My Town
Miracle Song
Simple
A-1 March
Come Play Wiz Me
Anyone Can Whistle
A Parade in Town
Everybody Says Don't
I've Got You to Lean On
See What It Gets You
The Cookie Chase
With So Little to Be Sure Of
Finale

Cut Songs
The Lame, the Halt, and the Blind
The Natives are Restless
A Hero is Coming
There Won't Be Trumpets
There's Always a Woman

Miscellaneous
Recordings:
Original Broadway Cast Recording, 1964 (Columbia CK 2480)
Live Concert Recording at Carnegie Hall, 1995 (Columbia CK 67224)
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