Tovarich (1963) won two Tony Awards, including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh). Former members of the late Tsar’s court work as servants to Americans in Paris in 1927 while avoiding the Communists sent to capture and return them to Moscow. Songs: "Say You’ll Stay," "Nitchevo," "Wilkes-Barre, PA,""That Face," "A Small Cartel," "I Know the Feeling" and "Stuck with Each Other."
Tovarich opened on March 18, 1963 at the Broadway Theatre and ran for 264 performances. The music was by Lee Pockriss and the lyrics by Ann Croswell. The show starred Vivian Leigh who received a Tony Award; Jean Pierre Aumont, George S. Irving, Margery Gray, and Alexander Scourby.
Music by Lee Pockriss
Lyrics by Anne Croswell
Book by David Shaw
Directed and Choreographed by Thomas Sabella-Mills
Music Director,Vocal Arranger: James Stenborg
Stage, Fight Direction: Al Pagano
With *Paul Amodeo, *Steven Ted Beckler, *Jackson Ross Best, Jr., *Dana Domenick, *Lydia Gladstone, *Ronald E. Hornsby, Amy Jackson, *Robert Anthony Jones, *Barbara McCullough, *Jeffrey Nauman, *Al Pagano, *Roger Rifkin, Omer Shaish, *Shorey Walker, and *Laura Beth Wells
* Denotes Actors Equity Member
Producer: Mel Miller
Casting Director: Stephen DeAngelis
Lighting/Stage Manager: Yingzhi Zhang
Graphics & Direct Mail Design: James Babbin
SCENES AND MUSICAL NUMBERS
Paris 1927
ACT I
Scene 1: Montmartre Marketplace
*On A Day Like Today - (Enemble)
*Take Me Back To Montmartre - (Tatiana, Enemble)
Scene 2: Hotel Quercy
Nitchevo - (Soukohime, Shamforoff, Mikail, Ensemble)
I Go To Bed - (Mikail)
*Her Highness And Her Husband - (Tatiana, Mikail)
*I Refuse - (Tatiana)
Scene 3: Davis Family Home
Stuck With Each Other - (Helen, George)
Say You’ll Stay - (Grace, Charles)
You Love Me - (Mikail)
Scene 4: Kasbeck Cafe
That Face - (Natalia)
Scene 5: Davis Family Home
Wilkes Barre, Pa - (Tatiana, George)
No! No! No! - (Mikail, Helen)
*Lullaby For A Princess - (Mikail)
A Small Cartel - (Charles, Grace, Ensemble)
ACT II
Scene 1: Kasbeck Cafe
*The Way It Used To Be - (Natalia,Vassily, Soukohime, Shamforoff)
*Opportunity - (Natalia)
Make A Friend - (Soukohime, Shamforoff, Mikail, Tatiana, Helen, George)
Scene 2: Davis Family Home
The Only One - (Tatiana)
Uh-Oh - (Helen, George)
Scene 3: Paris Street
Managed - (Mikail)
Scene 4: Davis Family Home
I Know The Feeling - (Tatiana)
*Poor Little Coffee Pot - (Tatiana, Mikail)
All For You - (Tatiana, Mikail)
Scene 5: Kasbeck Cafe
Finale - (Company)
* = Cut from original Production
SETTING THE STAGE FOR
TOVARICH
EVENTS: November 22, 1963; 200,000 Freedom Marchers on Washington; Idlewild re-named Kennedy Airport; 38-year-old Ed Koch defeats Tammany leader Carmine DeSapio for district leader; The new Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center - ground breaking; demolition of Penn Station begins; PanAm Bldg completed; Elaine’s Restaurant opens.
PUBLISHING: The Deputy; The Group; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Idiots First; Guns of August; New York Review of Books begins publication.
MOVIES: Dr. No (1st Sean Connery); Cleopatra; The Longest Day; Irma la Douce; Lawrence of Arabia; How the West Was Won; Tom Jones; Hud; Dr. Strangelove; The Birds; Bye Bye Birdie; The Great Escape; Lilies of the Field; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World; Charade; The Pink Panther (Peter Ustinov cancels and Sellers replaces); New York Film Festival begins.
VARIETY HIT SONGS: "Those Lazy, Hazy Crazy Days of Summer," "Danke Schoene," "Call Me Irresponsible."
THEATRE: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Albee’s title came from a bathroom wall in Greenwich Village; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Zero Mostel); She Loves Me; Beyond the Fringe (Dudley Moore; Peter Cook; Jonathan Miller; Alan Bennet); Little Me (Sid Ceasar); Oliver; Desire Under the Elms (Dewhurst; Scott; Rip Torn); Shakespeare Festival begins w/Merchant of Venice (George C Scott James Earl Jones); AEA = no performance in segregated theatres; newspaper strike = 4 month; Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Wally Schirra receive a hero’s welcome in New York and go to see…Stop the World - I Want to Get Off.
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