Musicals Tonight 2008-2009 Season

Musicals Tonight 2008-09 season will present the following musicals, all to be performed at the McGinn Cazale Theatre.

  • Irma La Douce (1960). The show won six Tony Awards, including Best Actress.
    A Paris �poule� works to support her impoverished lover against his wishes. He poses as a rich elderly rou� and becomes her exclusive client. The double life is too demanding so he �eliminates� the old gent and is arrested.
    Songs: Our Language of Love; There is Only One Paris for That; That�s a Crime.
    Dates: 14 - 26 Oct 2008

  • Tovarich (1963). The show won two Tony Awards, including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh).
    Former members of the late Tsar�s court work as servants to Americans in Paris in 1927 while avoiding the Communists sent to capture and return them to Moscow.
    Songs: Say You�ll Stay; Nitchevo; Wilkes-Barre, Pa; That Face; A Small Cartel; I Know the Feeling; Stuck with Each Other.
    Dates: 28 Oct - 9 Nov 2008

  • Cabaret Girl (1922). A Jerome Kern-PG Wodehouse hit from London making its New York debut!
    The producers of The All-Night Follies - Gravvins & Gripps act as cupids and try to bring together an ordinary working girl and her high-born �intended� against the wishes of her family - and succeed.
    Songs: You Want the Best Seats, We Have �Em; Whoop-De-Oodle-Do; Dear Old London; Shimmy with Me; London, Dear Old London; Dancing Time; Chopin Ad-Lib.
    Dates: 3 - 15 Mar 2009

  • Early To Bed (1943).
    This Fats Waller musical features an over-the-hill matador (El Magnifico) who falls in love with an old girl friend who now runs a brothel. Her current borders include an American track team who think they�re at a finishing school where the girls wear very little clothing.
    Songs: There�s a Man in My Life; Slightly Less than Wonderful; Ladies Who Sing with the Band; This is So Nice (It Must Be Illegal).
    Dates: 17 - 29 Mar 2009

  • You Never Know (1938). Cole Porter�s love affair with Paris continues with this delightful farce.
    Master and servant switch places and fall in love with mistress and maid, who have also switched places.
    Songs: I Am Gaston; By Candlelight; Alpha to Omega; At Long Last Love; What Is that Tune?; For No Rhyme or Reason; By Candlelight; Let�s Put It to Music.
    Dates: 14 - 26 Apr 2009

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