Come Summer

Come Summer
Music	David Baker
Lyrics	Will Holt
Book	Will Holt
Basis	Rainbow on the Road by Esther Forbes
Productions	1969 Broadway

Come Summer is a Broadway musical with a book and lyrics by Will Holt and music by David Baker, based on Rainbow on the Road by Esther Forbes and vocal arrangements by Trude Rittman . The original Broadway production opened on March 18, 1969 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre starring Cathryn Damon, Ray Bolger, David Cryer, and Leonard John Crofoot. Directed by Agnes De Mille it closed after 7 performances on March 22, 1969. Despite its short run, David Cryer won the 1969 Theatre World Award.

Behind the scenes, the musical was a disaster. Ray Bolger demanded that the producers expand his role;^[1] several rewrites later, de Mille herself was fired and replaced by Burt Shevelove. Only a few days after that, Shevelove exited, and "the producers asked Agnes to come back, but only to choreograph."^[2] De Mille's assistant director, James Mitchell, turned down the director's chair, but became the de facto director anyway. As a result, "neither she [de Mille] nor anyone else could say who directed the show."^[3] Come Summer turned out to be de Mille's final Broadway production.

Songs

Act I Good Time Charlie - Phineas and Peddlers Think Spring - Phineas, Jude and Populace Wild Birds Calling - Jude and Mitty Goodbye, My Bachelor - Phineas Fine, Thank You, Fine - Emma Road to Hampton - Jude Come Summer - hineas, Jude, Emma, Mitty and Visions of Lovers Let Me Be - Mitty and Jude Feather in My Shoe - Phineas The Loggers' Song - Phineas, Jude, Loggers and Populace

Act II Jude's Holler - Jude and Populace Faucett Falls Fancy - Phineas and Populace Rockin' - Emma and Jude Skin and Bones - Phineas Moonglade - Phineas, Jude, Mitty, Emma, Dorinda, Labe, Faucett and Populace Women - Mitty No - Phineas and Populace So Much World - Jude

References

1. ^ Carol Easton, No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille (New York: Da Capo, 2000), 421.
2. ^ Easton, 422.
3. ^ Easton, 422.

External links

• Come Summer at the Internet Broadway Database