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NEW YORK CITY CENTER
NEW YORK CITY OPERA
PROUDLY PRESENTS
FOR THE FIRST TIME ON ANY STAGE
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1963
THE WORLD PREMIERE
GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!

Book by JEROME MOROSS and EDWARD EAGER

The LYRICS Written by MR. EDWARD EAGER

The MUSIC Composed by MR. JEROME MOROSS

 

THE CAST

MISTER INTERLOCUTOR: MR. DICK SHAWN (debut)

Mister Tambo: Mr. Avon Long (début)

Mister Bones: Mr. Charles Atkin (début)

The COMEDIENNE: MISS ALICE GHOSTLEY (debut)

The Contralto: Miss Carol Brice

Johnny Reb: Mr. William McDonald

Billy Yank: Mr. Richard Fredricks

Southern Girl: Miss June Card (début)

Northern Girl: Miss Mary Burgess

Mister Banjo: Mr. Bernard Addison (début)

The Character: Actor Mr. Richard Krause

MISTER TAPS: MR. PAUL DRAPER (début)

also

Ermyntrude: Miss Charlotte Povia

Farmer McLean: Mr. David Smith

Miss Florida Cotton: Miss Michele Hardy (début)

Two Soldiers: Mr. Kellis Miller, Mr. Don Henderson

Drill Team: Mr. Bob Bernard (début),
Mr. John Tormey (début),
Mr. Bob Ellis (début)

Horse: Messrs. Bernard and Russel

Two Other Soldiers: Mr. Kellis Miller, Don Yule

Two Girls: Miss Joyce Miko, Miss Beverly Evans

Four Nurses: Misses Miko, Pilla, Evans and Povia

also

MINSTRELS, WALTZERS, SOLDIERS, NURSES, SPECTATORS, SLAVES, ETC.

The ORCHESTRA led by MR. EMERSON BUCKLEY

The ACTION directed by MR. ROBERT TITROFF (début)

The SCENERY, entirely new by MR. WILLIAM PITKIN (debut)

The DRESSES and SUITS by MR. HENRY HEYMANN (début)

The DANCES created by MR. PAUL DRAPER (début)
Assisted by Mr. Bob Bernard (début)

The CHORUS prepared by MR. WILLIAM JONSON

ACT I
(INTERMISSION)
ACT II

ACT 1
Scene 1
“Grand March”
A. Long, C. Atkins, Chorus, W. McDonald, R. Fredricks, J. Card, M. Burgess

Scene 2
“In the Sunny Old South”
D. Shawn, A. Long, C. Atkins, Chorus

Scene 3
“The Freedom Train” C. Brice

Scene 4
“Waltzing in the Shadow” D. Shawn, W. McDonald, R. Fredricks, Chorus

Scene 5

“Fare You Well” J. Card, W. McDonald, M. Burgess, R. Fredricks

Scene 6
“Why Ain’t We Got a Dome?”
A. Long, C. Atkins, D. Shawn

“Tap Dance Drill” P. Draper, Men’s Dance Ensemble

Scene 7
“0, the Picnic in Manassas” A. Ghostley, R. Krause, C. Povia

Scene 8
“Mocking Bird” J. Card

Scene 9
“Shiloh” W. McDonald, Men’s Chorus

Scene 10
“The Ballad of Belle Boyd” (Belle Boyd’s Back in Town)  Ladies’ Chorus
“I Spy” A. Ghostley
“It’s the Witching Hour by the Old Water Tower” Men’s Chorus, A. Ghostley
“I’m a Pinkerton Man” R. Krause
“Belle Boyd, Where Have You Been?” Ladies’ Chorus
“Pardon, Ma’am”?
“Look Who I Am, Surprise! Surprise!”?

Scene 11
“Mancipation” A. Long, C. Atkins, C. Brice

Scene 12
“This Isn’t a Gentleman’s War Anymore”
D. Shawn

Scene 13
“The Contraband Ball”
A. Ghostley, J. Card, C. Atkins, A. Long, R. Fredricks, Chorus

“0, Miss Walkaround, Come Walking Out With Me”

D. Shawn, A. Ghostley, R. Fredricks, A. Long, C. Atkins, J. Card, Entire Company

ACT 2

Scene 1 

“Gentlemen, Be Seated” D. Shawn

Scene 2
“It’s Quiet on the Potomac Tonight” A. Long, C. Atkins

Scene 3

“The Ballad of Stonewall Jackson” W. McDonald, Men’s Chorus

Scene 4
“I’m Mathew P. Brady, the Camera Man” D. Shawn,. R. Krause

“Miss Dorothea Dix” A. Ghostley, Nurses, D. Shawn

Scene 5
“I Can’t Remember” M. Burgess

Scene 6
“From Atlanta to the Sea” R. Fredricks, C. Brice, Chorus

Scene 7
“What Has Become of Beauty?” D. Shawn

Scene 8
“Have You Seen Him, Did He Pass This Way?” C. Brice

Scene 9

“This Was the War, What Did It Do for Me and You?”  Entire Company 

GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!

THE COMPLETE VOCAL SCORE

Gentlemen, Be Seated! is an anti-war, anti-racist musical history of the War Between the States. Music was composed by Jerome Moross with lyrics by Edward Eager. It was completed in 1956 and produced and presented by New York City Opera in 1963. This is the complete vocal score.

 

 

WINDFLOWERS: THE SONGS OF JEROME MOROSS

WINDFLOWERS offers delectable proof, with selections from his stage shows Ballet Ballads, The Golden Apple, Underworld, and Gentlemen, Be Seated! Alice Ripley, Richard Muenz, Jessica Molaskey, Philip Chaffin and Jenny Giering – five singers equally at home on Broadway, in cabaret and in the recording studio – celebrate an American original, in nineteen selections alternately playful and atmospheric, and always highly melodic.

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