Oil City Symphony
Lyrics - Mike Craver: Composed by Mark Hardwick, Dea Monk: Book by Mike Craver, Mark Hardwick, Dea Monk and Mary Murfitt
Circle in the Square Downtown - Off Broadway - November 5, 1987 (626 perfs)
Synopsis
Imagine your school gym, festooned with crepe paper, with four music stands on an improvised stage. Let your imagination go - four alumni of the local high school come back "for one night only" to give a recital in honour of their music teacher - with something borrowed, nothing blue and innocent fun in generous measure. That's Oil City Symphony, the latest creation from the writers of Pump Boys And Dinettes. When was the last time that an audience in your town did the hokey-pokey together?
Musical Numbers:
- Count Your Blessings
- Czardas
- A Classical Selection - The Anvil Chorus
- A Popular Selection - In a Gadda-Da-Vida
- Ohio Afternoon
- Baby It's Cold Outside
- The Hokey Pokey
- Beaver Ball at the Bug Club
- Beehive Polka
- A Patriotic Fantasy
- Dizzy Fingers
- Getting Acquainted
- Iris
- The End of the World
- Dear Miss Reeves
- Coaxing the Piano
- Bus Ride
- In the Sweet Bye and Bye
- My Ol' Kentucky Rock and Roll HOme
- Exodus
- Sleigh Ride
- The Christmas Medley
- The Summer Medley
Cast:
2 men, 2 women
Instrumentation:
percussion, piano db. accordion, synthesizer, violin db. flute/tenor sax
Discography
Original Cast Recording - DRG CDSBL 12594