1. ANYONE CAN WHISTLE (1964)
Savara Gunn

2. Background Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: Arthur Laurents
Opened at the Majestic Theatre
Previews started March 24, 1964 (12 Previews)
Opened April 4, 1964
Closed April 11, 1964
Only 9 performances

3. Plot Hated mayor Cora Hoover Hooper led her small town into bankruptcy
Creates a fake "miracle" to attract tourist dollars
During the tourist rush, the inmates from the local asylum, called the Cookie Jar, escape
A Doctor Hapgood says he can identify the "cookies" and separate them from the "sane" members of society
The cookies' nurse, Fay Apple, refuses to identify her patients and ends up falling in love with Hapgood.

4. Musical Numbers Act One: "I'm Like the Bluebird" - Company
"Me and My Town" - Cora and The Boys
"Miracle Song" - Cora, Cooley and Company
"Simple (Interrogation)" - Hapgood and Company
Act Two
"A-1 March" - The Cookies
"Come Play Wiz Me" - Fay and Hapgood
"Anyone Can Whistle" - Fay
"A Parade in Town" - Cora
"Everybody Says Don't" - Hapgood
Don't Ballet [instrumental]
Act Three
"I've Got You to Lean On" - Cora, Cooley, Magruder and Schub
"See What It Gets You" - Fay
The Cookie Chase - Cora, Dr. Detmold, Schub, Fay and Company
"With So Little to Be Sure Of" - Hapgood and Fay
+ Finale - Orchestra

5. Cast Cora Hoover Hooper- Angela Lansbury Fay Apple- Lee Remick
J. Bowen Hapgood- Harry Guardino
Treasurer Cooley- Arnold Soboloff
Comptroller Schub- Gabriel Dell
Chief Magruder- James Fawley
Dr. Detmold- Don Doherty

6. Crew Director-Arthur Laurents Composer/Lyricist- Stephen Sondheim
Choreographer-Herbert Ross
Musical Director-Herbert Greene
Orchestrations-Don Walker
Scenic Design-William and Jean Eckart
Costume Design-Theoni V. Aldredge
Lighting Design-Jules Fisher

7. Awards? Tony Award Nominee Literally nothing else Choreography
Herbert Ross
Literally nothing else
Because Hello Dolly, Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof

8. Review: Walter Kerr (Herald Tribune)
“Exasperating”
“Anyone can whistle, but nobody can sing”
“It has trouble on its mind-the trouble the world is in, the trouble we all are in, the trouble that comes when a librettist has nothing on his mind.”

9. Review: Howard Taubman (NY Times)
“The authors of the new musical...have aimed for originality, and for that one respects them. Their trouble is that they have taken an idea with possibilities and pounded it to a pulp.”
“What should be fresh turns out to be sick.”
“It works best when there is dancing.”

10. Review: John Chapman (Chicago Tribune)
“This book and the lack of a melody I could whistle impeded my enjoyment of the last two acts.”
“No musical cast ever offered an audience more good will than the performers in ‘Anyone Can Whistle’”.
“Sondheim’s witty chorus songs are generally more appealing than his romantic solos.

11. Other Productions 1995 Carnegie Hall Concert
Benefit for Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Used cut songs
Lansbury, Madeline Kahn, Bernadette Peters, Scott Bakula
2010 New York City Center Encores!
Sutton Foster, Donna Murphy, Raul Esparza

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