Love Life (musical)

''Love Life'' is a musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics). It opened at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway (now the Richard Rodgers) on October 7, 1948, and closed on May 14, 1949, after having played 252 performances. The original production starred Ray Middleton and Nanette Fabray, was directed by Elia Kazan, and choreographed by Michael Kidd.

The show told the story of a married couple, Sam and Susan Cooper, who never age as they progress from 1791 to 1948, encountering difficulties in their marriage (and thus the very fabric of marriage) as they struggle to cope with changing social mores. One of the earliest examples of the concept musical, the action of ''Love Life'' was interspersed with vaudeville-style numbers that commented on the story, in a way very similar to ''Cabaret'' (which opened in 1966).

No official cast recording of ''Love Life'' has ever been made; a strike at the time of the original production prevented preserving the original cast of this show, as also happened with ''Where's Charley?,'' which opened four days later, on Oct. 11, 1948.

The song "I Remember it Well" is the original version of a lyric Lerner revised for use in the 1958 film, '' Gigi''.

Musical Numbers

Part One

;The Magician
*Opening (Waltz) - The Magician, Sam, and Susan
;The Cooper Family
*Who Is Samuel Cooper? - Mary Jo, George, Jonathan, Charlie, Hank, and Women
*My Name Is Samuel Cooper - Sam
*Here I'll Stay - Sam and Susan
;Eight Men
*Progress - The Go-Getters
;The Farewell
*I Remember It Well - Sam and Susan
*Green Up-Time - Susan, Men and Women
*Polka and Green Up-Time (Reprise) - Susan, Johnny, Men and Women
*I Remember It Well (Reprise) - Sam, Susan, Johnny and Elizabeth
;Quartette
*Economics - Quartette
*Susan's Dream ut Song- Quartette
;The New Baby
*Prelude and Postlude to Scene - Orchesta
;Three Tots and A Woman
*Mother's Getting Nervous - Three Tots
*Trapeze Specialty - Trapeze Artist
*Foxtrot (with Encore) - Three Tots
;My Kind of Night
*My Kind Of Night - Sam
*Women's Club Blues - Susan and Women
*My Kind of Night (Reprise) - Sam
;Love Song
*Progress (Reprise with Soft Shoe) ut Song- The Go-Getters
*Love Song - Hobo
;The Cruise
*I'm Your Man - Sam, Slade, Boylan, Harvey, and Leffcourt
*You Understand Me So ut Song- Susan and Taylor
*Finale Part One: I'm Your Man (Reprise) - Entire Company

Part Two

;Madrigal Singers
*Ho, Billy O! - Leader and Singers
;Radio Night
;The Locker Room Boys ut and Replaced with Madrigal Singers*The Locker Room - Locker Room Boys
;Farewell Again
*I Remember It Well (Reprise) - Sam and Susan
*Is It Him or Is It Me? - Susan
;The All-American Puppet Ballet Present ''Punch and Judy Get A Divorce''
*Prologue - Punch, Judy, Lawyer, Judge, Bell Hop, Corespondent
*Courtroom - The same in addition to Two Lawyers, Flighty Pair, and Speedy Pair
*Family Trio (Green Up-Time) - Child, Father, and Mother
*Hep Cats (Economics) - Hep Cats
;A Hotel Room
*This Is The Life - Sam
;The Minstrel Show
*Here I'll Stay (Reprise) - Interlocutor
*We're Sellin' Sunshine - Interlocutor and Minstrels
*Introduction - Interlocutor, Sam, Susan, and Minstrels
*Madame Zuzu - Miss Horoscope and Miss Mysticism
*Takin' No Chances - Mr. Cynic
*Mr. Right (Introduction) - Miss Ideal Man
*Mr. Right - Susan
*Finale Ultimo - Sam and Susan

References

External links

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Ovrtur.com listing

1948 musicals
Broadway musicals
Musicals by Alan Jay Lerner
Musicals by Kurt Weill
Tony Award-winning musicals

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