Overview
Synopsis
When Liz Livingstone – a rich, widowed Philadelphia hostess, at odds with the Main Line crowd – perceives a snub at the Grace Kelly-Prince Rainier "Wedding of the Year" in Monaco, she single-mindedly sets out to snare an even more impressively titled husband for her daughter. Things get predictably complicated when she succeeds... and then promptly falls for her intended son-in-law, herself! Meanwhile, the bride-to-be only has eyes for a society lawyer. Things then really get interesting when Liz's dashing Duke turns out to be penniless.
Show Information
- Book
- Howard Lindsay , Russel Crouse
- Music
- Harold Karr
- Lyrics
- Matt Dubey
- Category
- Musical
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Number of Acts
- 2
- First Produced
- 1956
- Genres
- Comedy, Farce, Romance
- Settings
- Period, Multiple Settings
- Time & Place
- Monaco, Philadelphia
- Cast Size
- large
- Orchestra Size
- Medium
- Dancing
- Musical Staging
- Licensor
- Music Theatre International
- Ideal For
- Community Theatre, Star Vehicle Female, Mostly Male Cast, Includes Young Adult, Adult, Mature Adult Characters, Large Cast
Context
Plot
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Songs
- "Postage Stamp-Principality" - Tourists and Monegasques
- "Don't Tell Me" - Sandy and Beth Livingstone
- "It's Good to Be Here" - Liz Livingstone and Reporters
- "Mutual Admiration Society" - Liz and Beth Livingstone
- "For Love or Money" - The Girls
- "Bikini Dance" - Beth Livingstone
- "It's Like a Beautiful Woman" - Duke of Granada
- "Wedding-of-the-Year Blues" - Maud Foley, Harry Watson, Jack Adams, Reporters, and Photographers
- "Mr. Livingstone" - Liz Livingstone
- "If'n" - Beth Livingstone, Sandy, and Passengers
- "This Is What I Call Love" - Liz Livingstone
- "A New-Fangled Tango" - Liz and Beth Livingstone, Arturo, and Guests
- "She's Just Another Girl" - Sandy
- "The Game of Love" - Liz Livingstone
- "Happy Hunting" - Liz Livingstone, Duke of Granada, and Members of the Hunt
- "I'm a Funny Dame" - Liz Livingstone
- "This Much I Know" - Duke of Granada
- "Just Another Guy" - Liz Livingstone
- "Everyone Who's "Who's Who" - Jack Adams, Harry Watson, and Footmen
- "Mutual Admiration Society (Reprise)" - Liz Livingstone and Duke of Granada
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
Monologues
Scenes
Key Terms
A production in which musical numbers and dances are fully integrated into a proper narrative with defined dramatic goals.
A type of comedy that uses exaggeration, often with clowning and ridiculous behaviors, in order to entertain.
References an era of book musicals written roughly between the 1940s and the 1960s.
A Broadway musical written and produced between 1943 and 1965.
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