Marry Me A Little (musical)

Marry Me A Little
Original Cast Album
Music	Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics	Stephen Sondheim
Book	Revue
Productions	1980 Off-Off Broadway 1981 Off Broadway

Marry Me A Little is a musical with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, conceived by Craig Lucas and Norman René. The revue sets songs cut from Sondheim's better-known musicals to a dialogue-free plot about the relationship between two lonely New York single people, who are in emotional conflict during an evening in their separate one-room apartments.^[1]

The musical originally was staged by the off-off-Broadway Production Company. It opened on October 29, 1980 and closed December 28, 1980. It re-opened March 12, 1981 at the off-Broadway Actor's Playhouse, where it ran for 96 performances. Directed by Rene and choreographed by Don Johanson, it starred Craig Lucas and Suzanne Henry. The revue has been performed in US regional theaters such as GroundWorks Theatre, Nashville, Tennessee in March 2009 ^[2] and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, in May 2009.^[3]

In late 1998 actor Steve Gideon proposed a revival of the work with the casting of a male same-sex couple to play the leads. He approached Stephen Sondheim with the idea and was given permission. The new version of the work debuted at the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood, CA in 1999.

A version of the main title with Harry Nilsson singing can be found on bootlegs.

Song list

• "Saturday Night" (from Saturday Night)
• "Two Fairy Tales" (cut from A Little Night Music)
• "Can That Boy Foxtrot!" (cut from Follies)
• "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (cut from Follies)
• "Bang!" (cut from A Little Night Music)
• "All Things Bright and Beautiful (Part 2)" (cut from Follies)
• "The Girls of Summer" (from The Girls of Summer)
• "Uptown, Downtown" (cut from Follies)
• "So Many People" (from Saturday Night)
• "Your Eyes Are Blue" (cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
• "A Moment With You" (from Saturday Night)
• "Marry Me A Little" (Company)
• "Happily Ever After" (cut from Company)
• "Pour Le Sport" (from The Last Resorts, unproduced)
• "Silly People" (cut from A Little Night Music)
• "There Won't Be Trumpets" (cut from Anyone Can Whistle)
• "It Wasn't Meant to Happen" (cut from Follies)
• "Who Could Be Blue?" (cut from Follies)
• "Little White House" (cut from Follies)

Notes

1. ^ Sommer, Elyse.Marry Me a Little review curtainup.com, October 19, 1997
2. ^ Listing for Marry Me A Little groundworkstheatre.blogspot.com, retrieved December 10, 2009
3. ^ Hetrick, Adam."Marry Me a Little Opens at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park May 14" playbill.com, May 14, 2009

References

• Stanley Green, Richard Walters, Robert Viagas. The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology: Soprano Vol. 3
• Craig Zadan. Sondheim & Co., Second Edition 1986, pp343–344, 381.ISBN 0-06-015649-X
• New York Times, John S. Wilson, "Theater: 'Marry Me,' With Sondheim Songs", November 2, 1980

External links

• Marry Me a Little on The Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide
• Internet Off-Broadway database listing
• Plot and production information at guidetomusicaltheatre.com
• Listing at MTI Shows, including synopsis and production information
• Steve Gideon proposes new "Marry Me A Little"