Putting It Together
A musical review [sic] in 2 acts. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Manhattan Theatre Club City Center Stage 1 - 2 March 1993 (96 perfs) with the following cast: Julie Andrews; Stephen Collins; Christopher Durang; Michael Rupert; Rachel York: Staged by Bob Avian; directed by Julia McKenzie
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York - 21 November, 1999 (799 perfs) with the following cast: The Wife: CAROL BURNETT. The Husband: GEORGE HEARN. The Younger Man: JOHN BARROWMAN. The Younger Woman: RUTHIE HENSHALL. The Observer: BRONSON PINCHOT. The Wife, (alternate) at certain performances: KATHIE LEE GIFFORD.
Originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh at the Old Fire Station, Oxford, England 27 January, 1992
The author and producer have purposely chosen the spelling of the word review.
Synopsis
A revue with a difference… A revue that tells a story… A
show that covers one night and forty years… A show that takes
place today and also in 200 B.C., 1853, 1882, 1900, the 1950s, the
1970s, the 1980s and tonight.
A show that takes place not only in New York but also Greece and Rome
and London and Paris and Milan and Sweden…
A show that takes place in a Manhattan penthouse, but includes the
stage of an abandoned theatre, an estate in Sweden, an island outside
of Paris, a street off the Roman Forum, the woods of a fairy tale and
a mythical town in the Southwest… All performed by only five
people thrown together at a party.
Sondheim himself has devised this unique and inventive musical entertainment
from his own work, which includes songs from every score he has ever
written as well as some never heard before. His delight in devising
unusual and entertaining crossword puzzles has here found an unexpected
outlet in the way he has put together this extraordinary collection
of brilliant songs into what has been described as the funniest show
Sondheim never wrote… but now he has.
Casting
Cast members use their own names
Musical Numbers: (original production)
ACT I
Invocation and Instructions (The Frogs)
Putting It Together (Sunday in the Park with George)
Rich and Happy (Merrily We Roll Along)
Merrily We Roll Along (Merrily We Roll Along)
Lovely (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Sequence:Sooner or Later (Dick Tracy)
I'm Calm (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Impossible (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Ah, But Underneath ...! (Follies - London)Hello Little Girl (Into the Woods)
My Husband the Pig/ Every Day a Little Death (A Little Night Music)
Have I Got a Girl for You (Company)
Pretty Women (Sweeney Todd)
Now (A Little Night Music)
Bang! (A Little Night Music)
Country House (Follies - London)
'Could I Leave You? (Follies)
ACT II
Entr'acte/ Back in Business (Dick Tracy)
Rich and Happy (Merrily We Roll Along)
Night Waltzes (A Little Night Music-stage and film)
Gun Song (Assassins)
The Miller's Son (A Little Night Music)
Live Alone and Like It (Dick Tracy)
Sorry-Grateful (Company)
Sweet Polly Plunkett (Sweeney Todd)
I Could Drive a Person Crazy (Company)
Marry Me a Little (Company)
Getting Married Today (Company)
Being Alive (Company)
Like It Was (Merrily We Roll Along)
Old Friends (Merrily We Roll Along)
Musical Numbers: (Ethel Barrymore Theatre production)
ACT I
Invocation and Instructions to the Audience - (from The Frogs)
Putting It Together - (from Sunday In the Park With George)
Rich and Happy (from Merrily We Roll Along)
Do I Hear a Waltz? - (from Do I Hear a Waltz)
Merrily We Roll Along # 1 (from Merrily We Roll Along)
Lovely (from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Hello Little Girl (from Into the Woods)
My Husband the Pig (from A Little Night Music, unused)
Everyday a Little Death (from A Little Night Music)
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid (from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Have I Got a Girl for You? (from Company)
Pretty Women (from Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Sooner or Later (from Dick Tracy, film)
Bang! (from A Little Night Music, unused)
Country House (from Follies, London)
Unworthy of Your Love (from Assassins)
Merrily We Roll Along #2 (from Merrily We Roll Along)
Could I Leave You? (from Follies)
Rich and Happy (reprise)
ACT II
Back in Business (from Dick Tracy, film)
It's Hot Up Here (from Sunday In the Park With George)
The Ladies Who Lunch (from Company)
The Road You Didn't Take (from Follies)
Live Alone and Like It (from Dick Tracy, film)
More (from Dick Tracy, film)
There's Always a Woman (from Anyone Can Whistle, unused)
Buddy's Blues (from Follies)
Good Thing Going (from Merrily We Roll Along)
Marry Me a Little (from Company)
Not Getting Married Today (from Company)
Merrily We Roll Along #3 (from Merrily We Roll Along)
Being Alive (from Company)
Like It Was (from Merrily We Roll Along)
Finale-Old Friends (from Merrily We Roll Along)
Instrumentation:
Keyboard I; keyboard II; bass; drums/percussion.