- All American (musical)
Infobox Musical
name= All American
caption=Original Broadway Cast Recording
music=Charles Strouse
lyrics=Lee Adams
book=Mel Brooks
basis=Robert Lewis Taylor 's novel
"Professor Fodorski "
productions=1962 Broadway
awards="All American" is a musical with a book by
Mel Brooks , lyrics byLee Adams , and music byCharles Strouse .Based on the
Robert Lewis Taylor novel "Professor Fodorski", it is set on the campus of thefiction al Southern Baptist Institute of Technology, where the worlds ofscience andsports collide when the principles ofengineering are applied tofootball strategies and football strategies are used to teach the principles of engineering. Hungarianimmigrant Fodorski's techniques prove to be successful, resulting in a winning team, and he finds himself the target of a Madison Avenue ad man who wants to exploit his new-found fame.agreed to play Fodorski, the script was tailored to showcase his talents, but turning the musical into a star vehicle for a performer who no longer was the audience favorite he once was ultimately proved to be a mistake.
The Broadway production, choreographed by
Danny Daniels , opened onMarch 19 1962 at theWinter Garden Theatre , where it ran for 80 performances. In addition to Bolger, the cast includedRon Husmann ,Anita Gillette ,Fritz Weaver , andEileen Herlie .Tony Award nominations went to Bolger for Best Actor in a Musical and Logan for Best Direction of a Musical. An original cast album was released byColumbia Masterworks Records .In 2006, Harbinger Records released a CD entitled "All American Live Backers Audition", a recording of a session for potential financial investors featuring Adams and Strouse performing their score, including songs cut prior to opening night, with Adams providing a running commentary between the numbers [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/101007.html] .
ong list
;Act I
*Melt Us
*What a Country!
*Our Children
*Animal Attraction
*Our Children (Reprise)
*We Speak the Same Language
*I Can Teach Them!
*It's Fun to Think
*Once Upon a Time
*Nightlife
*I've Just Seen Her
*Once Upon a Time (Reprise)
*Physical Fitness
*The Fight Song
*What a Country!;Act II
*I Couldn't Have Done It Alone
*If I Were You
*Have a Dream
*I've Just Seen Him
*I'm Fascinating
*Once Upon a Time (Reprise)
*The Real Me
*It's Up to Me
*The Fight Song (Reprise)
*It's Fun to Think (Reprise)References
"Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops" by
Ken Mandelbaum , published bySt. Martin's Press (1991), page 56 (ISBN 0-312-06428-4)External links
* [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=2772 Internet Broadway Database listing]
* [http://stageagent.com/Shows/View/1507 All American plot summary & character descriptions] at [http://www.stageagent.com StageAgent.com]
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