The Day Before Spring

The Day Before Spring

Infobox Musical
name= The Day Before Spring
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music= Frederick Loewe
lyrics= Alan Jay Lerner
book= Alan Jay Lerner
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productions= 1945 Broadway
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"The Day Before Spring" is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

The plot concerns a married woman who, at a college reunion, meets the man with whom she almost eloped ten years before. Romantically stirred by a novel he has written about her, she considers leaving her husband and reuniting with her former flame.

The Broadway production, directed by Edward Padula and choreographed by Anthony Tudor, opened on November 22, 1945 at the National Theatre, where it ran for 167 performances. The cast included Lucille Benson, John Archer, Bert Freed, and Irene Manning.

The show was revived in July 2007 by the York Theatre Company in New York City as part of their acclaimed Mufti Theatre series. This restoration of the show was undertaken by musical supervisors Aaron Gandy, Mark York and director David Glenn Armstrong and included material that had been missing since the show closed on Broadway in 1946. A treasure trove of material was bought by the Library of Congress in 1999 which filled the missing holes in the score. The York production starred Hunter Bell, Amanda Watkins, Richard Todd Adams, Edward Watts and Tia Speros.

ong list

;Act I
*The Day Before Spring
*God's Green World
*You Haven't Changed at All
*My Love Is a Married Man;Act II
*Friends to the End
*A Jug of Wine
*I Love You This Morning
*The Day Before Spring (Reprise)
*Where's My Wife?
*This is My Holiday

External links

* [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=1745/ Internet Broadway Database listing]


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