GOLDILOCKS A Musical Comedy in 2 Acts, 11 Scenes. Book by Walter and Jean Kerr. Music by Leroy Anderson. Lyrics by Jean Ford, Walter and Jean Kerr. Dances and musical numbers staged by Agnes de Mille. Directed by Walter Kerr. Settings by Peter Larkin. Costumes by Castillo. Lighting by Feder. Musical director, Lehman Engel. Orchestrations by Leroy Anderson and Philip J. Lang. Dance music arranged by Laurence Rosenthal. Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway - Opened 11th October, 1958; closed 28th February, 1959 (161 performances.) STORY ACT I It is 1913, and the finale of the last New York performance of the musical comedy Lazy Moon is in progress. The show is moving on to Chicago, but its leading lady, Maggie Harris, will not be travelling with it. Maggie has decided to give up the theatre for marriage to millionaire George Randolph Brown; she declares that she has no regrets about leaving the world of draughty dressing rooms. Enter film producer/director Max Grady, who punctures Maggie's euphoria by reminding her that she's under contract to begin shooting Frontier Woman for him tomorrow morning. When Max threatens a lawsuit, Maggie reluctantly agrees to honour the contract. George arrives backstage, and Maggie expresses doubts about her ability to please the blue bloods of George's family. He silences her qualms. At the vacant New York City lot that is Max Grady's studio, Maggie endures Max's insults and begins to shoot the film. Max, tired of directing ten-minute quickies, has secretly been using the profits from his films to purchase (then hide) the elaborate scenery he intends to use in a long-planned, full-length Egyptian spectacle. Max tells Maggie that he believes she is drawn to his magnetism. Maggie counters by offering her own analysis of the situation. Shooting on the picture ends but Max, without funds to hire a new leading lady for his next film, tricks Maggie into staying on the lot to shoot "flashback" sequences for Frontier Woman. In reality the sequences will constitute his next picture. Maggie protests, but George says she must do the honourable thing and stay on. Maggie wistfully confides in an actor in a bear suit, her co-star in the "flashbacks" . When Max makes advances to Maggie, she calls him "a common, on-the-make hustler." Max is stung, but also challenged. At the Fat Cat, a downtown roof garden jazz spot, Lois, a studio hanger-on attracted to Max, entertains. Max confesses to Maggie that he tricked her into staying and that he is attracted to her. When he tells her that he owes the studio thousands of dollars for the scenery he's been purchasing, she volunteers to stay on and shoot a pirate picture to help Max stall the studio. While shooting the new picture on Huckleberry Island, Maggie admits to Max that she returns his feelings. But when she learns that George has been summoned by Max's studio cohorts, Bessie and Pete, to supply the money Max owes the studio, Maggie, believing that Max wooed her only for the money, storms out. She is forcibly brought back to finish the pirate film, and George, attempting to rescue her, is injured in the ensuing mêlée. ACT II In a hospital room on the mainland, Lois comforts the injured George. She tells him that she never seems to be able to find the sheikhs and princes she always dreamed one day would carry her off.
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