COLE
A Musical Revue in 2 Acts; Music and lyrics by Cole Porter;
Book by Benny Green and Alan Strachan;
Mermaid Theatre, London - 2 July 1974
Original cast: Ray Cornell; Lucy Fenwick; Peter Gale; Bill Kerr; Julia McKenzie; Rod McLennan; Kenneth Nelson; Elizabeth Power; Angela Richards; Una Stubbs
Musical Numbers
Act One
- Introduction
- Overture : Night and Day Orchestral
- Wouldn't it be Fun? (Aladdin, TV Show, 1958) - Kenneth Nelson
- Another Op'nin', Another Show (Kiss Me, Kate, 1948) - Company
- Introducing Cole Porter - Peter Gale, Rod McLennan - Including The Bobolink Waltz (Orchestral)
- Yale sequence
Bingo Eli Yale! (Yale, 1910) - Lucy Fenwick, Elizabeth Power, Angela Richards, Una Stubbs. - Gerald Murphy Remembers - Kenneth Nelson
- When the Summer Moon Comes 'Long - (Yale, 1910) - Ray Cornell, Peter Gale, Bill Kerr, Rod McLennan
- Leaving Yale - Rod McLennan, Kenneth Nelson
- See America First (See America First, 1916) - Julia McKenzie
- Leaving Home - Rod McLennan, Kenneth Nelson
- Paris sequence
The Lost Liberty Blues (La Revue des Ambassadeurs, 1928) - Angela Richards - I Love Paris (Can-Can, 1953) - Elizabeth Power
- Playboy - Rod McLennan
- Thank You So Much, Mrs. Lowsborough Goodby (Incidental song, 1934) Julia McKenzie
- Not All Play - Kenneth Nelson
- Dizzy Baby (Unused, Paris, 1928) - Una Stubbs, Rod McLennan, Kenneth Nelson
- Going Home - Elizabeth Power
- You Don't Know Paree (Fifty Million Frenchmen, 1929) - Peter Gale
- Manhattan sequence
Take Me Back to Manhattan (The New Yorkers, 1930) - Lucy Fenwick, Julia McKenzie, Elizabeth Power, Ray Cornell, Bill Kerr, Rod McLennan
I Happen To Like New York (The New Yorkers, 1930) - Kenneth Nelson - I'm A Gigolo (Wake Up and Dream! 1929) - Peter Gale
- News Extra! - Ray Cornell
Love For Sale (The New Yorkers, 1930) - Angela Richards - Down In The Depths (Red, Hot and Blue, 1936) - Julia McKenzie.
- Broadway sequence
A New White Way - Elizabeth Power - Night And Day (Gay Divorce, 1932) - Kenneth Nelson
- Anything Goes (Anything Goes, 1934) Company
- I Get A Kick Out Of You (Anything Goes, 1934) - Elizabeth Power
- No Sorrow Tomorrow - Rod McLennan Tomorrow (Leave It To Me, 1938) Company
- Accident - Rod McLennan
- Tomorrow (continued) - Company
Act Two
- What Is This Thing Called Love? sequence
- Overture : Begin The Beguine (Jubilee, 1935) - (Orchestral)
- What Is This Thing Called Love? (Wake Up and Dream!, 1929) - Angela Richards
- You Do Something To Me (Fifty Million Frenchmen, 1929) Lucy Fenwick, Ray Cornell
- You've Got That Thing (Fifty Million Frenchmen, 1929) - Peter Gale
- Let's Misbehave (Unused, Paris, 1928) - Rod McLennan
- The Laziest Gal In Town (Written 1927, used in film Stagefright, 1950) - Una Stubbs
- At Long Last Love (You Never Know,
1938) - Rod McLennan
It's De-lovely (Red, Hot and Blue, 1936) - Julia McKenzie, Bill Kerr - In The Still Of The Night (Film, Rosalie, 1937) - Elizabeth Power
- I Worship You (Unused, Fifty Million Frenchmen, 1929) - Kenneth Nelson
- Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please (Panama Hattie, 1940) - Angela Richards
- Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love (Leave It To Me, 1938) - Julia McKenzie, Elizabeth Power, Angela Richards
- From This Moment On (Unused, Out of this World, 1950, used in "Kiss Me, Kate" film, 1953) - Lucy Fenwick, Angela Richards, Una Stubbs, Ray Cornell, Peter Gale, Rod McLennan
- Just One Of Those Things (Jubilee, 1935) - Elizabeth Power, Bill Kerr
- We Shall Never Be Younger (Unused, Kiss Me, Kate, 1948) - Julia McKenzie, Kenneth Nelson
- What Is This Thing Called Love? - (reprise) - Company.
- Hollywood sequence
Go West - Peter Gale - Be A Clown (Film, The Pirate, 1948) - Julia McKenzie, Una Stubbs
- Looking East - Peter Gale
Back to Broadway sequence - Please Don't Monkey With Broadway (Film, Broadway Melody of 1940) - Ray Cornell, Rod McLennan, Kenneth Nelson
- The Leader Of A Big-Time Band (Something for the Boys, 1943) - Julia McKenzie, Elizabeth Power, Angela Richards
- Doldrums - Rod McLennan, Kenneth Nelson
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Kiss Me, Kate, 1948) - Peter Gale, Bill Kerr, Rod McLennan
- Why Can't You Behave? (Kiss Me, Kate) - Julia McKenzie, Elizabeth Power, Angela Richards
- Last Words - Kenneth Nelson
- Wouldn't It Be Fun? (Reprise) (the 1958 TV spectacular of "Aladdin") - Kenneth Nelson
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (Seven Lively
Arts, 1944) Company
Tomorrow (Reprise) - Company
What Is This Thing Called Love? (Reprise) - Orchestral