Pump Boys and Dinettes
Music & lyrics by Jim Wann
Princess Theatre, Broadway - July 10, 1981 (685 perfs)
Piccadilly Theatre, London - 20 September, 1984
Synopsis
On Highway 57, somewhere between Frog Level and Smyrna, stands a gas station. Across the blacktop is a roadside eatery called the Double Cupp Diner. The four guys at the station, Jim, Jackson, Eddie and L.M., have been known to do some auto repairs, but only when aided by quantities of time and beer. The Cupp sisters, Prudie and Rhetta, celebrate their home cooking with the same zeal they bring to being neighbourly with the boys. This is their musical tribute to life by the roadside!
Musical Numbers:
- Highway 57 - Company
- Taking It Slow - Pump Boys
- Serve Yourself - L.M.
- Menu Song - Dinettes
- The Best Man - Prudie
- Fisherman's Prayer - Pump Boys
- Catfish - Pump Boys
- Mamaw - Jim
- Be Good Or Be Gone - Rhetta
- Drinkin' Shoes - Company
- Pump Boys - Pump Boys
- Mona - Jackson
- The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine - L.M.
- Tips - Dinettes
- Sister - Dinettes
- Vacation - Rhetta and all
- No Holds Barred - Company
- Farmer Tan - L.M. and Dinettes
- Closing Time - Company
Discography:
Original Cast CBS FM 37790