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Publication notice: “Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Denver, Colorado” GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY PROPS CAST OF CHARACTERS CAST OF CHARACTERS Sack Lunches (TRIXIE, HILDA) (In Order Of Appearance) (In Order Of Appearance) Handbag with letter (MARY) Sheet of paper (FLOSSIE) DICK FOSTER Director EDDIE COWLES # of lines Money (DICK) Pianist TRIXIE Chorus girl, friend of Legs DICK FOSTER ...........................Director 158 List, pictures (BABS) BETTY Chrous girl, friend of Eddie EDDIE COWLES........................Pianist 104 Suitcase (MILLIE) FLOSSIE Chorus girl TRIXIE........................................Chorus girl, friend of Legs 79 Briefcase with check (DONALD) SUZIE Chorus girl Handguns (MUGSY, BABS) CONNIE Chorus girl BETTY........................................Chorus girl, friend of Eddie 50 HILDA Chorus girl Flags, decorations, miscellaneous props FLOSSIE ....................................Chorus girl 21 MONA MONROE Broadway star (EDDIE, BETTY, MILLIE, SUZIE) MARY COLLINS Aspiring actress SUZIE.........................................Chorus girl 10 Newspaper (DONALD) LEGS RUBY Bookie CONNIE .....................................Chorus girl 17 Two coffee cups (MILLIE) MILl.a,IE Attractive girl, Betty's niece MUGSY Gangster "hit man" HILDA.........................................Chorus girl 10 Coffee cups (CAST) BABS His "moll" MONA MONROE .......................Broadway star 30 Military rifles (DICK, EDDIE, LEGS) DONALD HARPER "Harvard man" Hospital gown, arm sling (DICK) MARY COLLINS.........................Aspiring actress 81 TIME: The present LEGS RUBY...............................Bookie 81 PRODUCTION NOTES PLACE: The stage of an off-Broadway theatre MILLIE........................................Attractive girl, Betty's niece 41 MUGSY ......................................Gangster "hit man" 30 The set calls for a piano on stage for EDDIE. This may BABS..........................................His "moll" 11 be a practical piano (one that plays) or a set piece where SEQUENCE OF MUSICAL NUMBERS EDDIE can sit and mime playing. Either way, the key- DONALD HARPER ...................."Harvard man" 35 board should be placed away from the audience so EDDIE ACT ONE TIME: The present can be seen and give the impression of playing while the GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY ...... Chorus regular pianist handles the actual music. FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY .. Dick Mary PLACE: The stage of an Off-Broadway theatre THE YANKEE DOODLE BOY ............Legs, Trixie ACT TWO, Scene Two is a set of three very brief scenes VIRGINIA SONG ....................Betty SEQUENCE OF MUSICAL NUMBERS LIFE'S A FUNNY PROPOSITION AFTER ALL . Eddie, Legs, Chorus and should be virtually continuous, one running into the next. FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY · ACT ONE Throughout this portion of the "play within a play" the REPRISE ........................Mary GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY ...............Chorus illusion should be theatrical rather than realistic. A good FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY.....Dick, Mary deal of rushing about, confusion and ad libs between the ACT TWO THE YANKEE DOODLE BOY..............................Legs, Trixie cast should be used to assure the audience that they are, indeed, seeing the "play within a play". Recorded IT'S A GRAND OLD FLAG/THE YANKEE VIRGINIA SONG..................................................Betty DOODLE BOY .................... Mary, Millie, Legs, applause may be added over the s'ound system to heighten Chorus LIFE'S A FUNNY PROPOSITION AFTER ALL. ..Eddie, Legs, this illusion. LIFE'S A FUNNY PROPOSITION AFTER ALL · Chorus REPRISE . .. .. .. .. .. Mary FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY SO LONG MARY ....................Mary, Chorus * WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING REPRISE ............................................Mary HOME AGAIN .....•........ ; ......Chorus IT'S A GRAND OLD FLAG .. .. .. Legs, Oick, Eddie ACT TWO MARY'S· A GRAND OLD NAME . .. Mary, Hilda, Suzie, IT'S A GRAND OLD FLAG/THE YANKEE Flossie, Connie FINALE - GIVE MY REGARDS TO DOODLE BOY....................................Mary, Millie, Legs, BROADWAY .............. .Company Chorus *Music by Louis Lambert 35 ii 35 For Preview Only GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY Tell all the gang at Forty-Second Street that I will soon be LIFE'S A FUNNY PROPOSITION AFTER ALL ACT ONE there; REPRISE ............................................Mary Scene One Whisper of how I'm yearning to mingle with the old time SO LONG MARY..................................................Mary, Chorus throng; *WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING Give my regards to old Broadway and say that I'll be SETTING: A bare stage with miscellaneous flats and work materials there HOME AGAIN.....................................Chorus e'er long. about. Give my regards to old Broadway and say that I'll be there IT'S A GRAND OLD FLAG...................................Legs, Dick, Eddie e'er long. MARY'S A GRAND OLD NAME...........................Mary, Hilda, Suzie, EDDIE COWLES is playing the piano, STAGE LEFT. AT RISE: Flossie, Connie A small chorus of about six girls in rehearsal clothes is running CURTAIN through a song and dance number. DICK FOSTER, the director, FINALE—GIVE MY REGARDS TO is watching from DOWN RIGHT. BROADWAY.......................................Company *Music by Louis Lambert CHORUS GIRLS: (Sing. GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY.) Give my regards to Broadway, remember me to Herald Square. Tell all the gang at Forty-Second Street that I will soon be there. Whisper of how I'm yearning to mingle with the old time throng; Give my regards to old Broadway and say that I'll be there e'er long. {THEY wrap up the song with a flourish.) DICK: All right, girls, that's not bad. Trixie, you need to kick a Iittle higher. And Betty, try to straighten up the Iine a bit. Now let's take a one hour break for lunch and we'll see you all back here at one. TRIXIE: Okay, but when you gonna get some heat in here? BETTY: Yeah, it's so cold my goose bumps are frozen. I gotta iron them out every night! FLOSSIE: When my mother warned me about the theatre, she didn't say anything about frostbite. SUZIE: When you design the costumes, pick something that goes with blue. I don't want it to clash with my skin. DICK: When you're all rich and famous, you'll laugh about this. CONNIE: Those of us that survive, anyhow. FLOSSIE: Let's get some hot coffee, Maybe that will help. CONNIE: 'How about the place across the street? BETTY: Their food is terrible! It tastes like sawdust. FLOSSIE: Yeah ...but they give second helpings free. SUZIE: And their thermostat is high. We might actually thaw out in an hour. CONNIE: That's all the recommendation I need. Let's go. TRIXIE: (Getting a paper bag.) I'm brown bagging it today. HI LOA: Me, too. With the cost of rent around here, I can't afford to go out. TRIXIE: If it gets any higher, we'll have to make sandwiches out of the bag. SUZIE: Well, we'll see you later, then. {SUZIE, CONNIE and 34 iii 34 For Preview Only MARY: Look ... (Takes out letter from handbag.) I brought (HILDA, SUZIE, FLOSSIE and CONNIE, also dressed as nurses, GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY Tell all the gang at Forty-Second Street that I will soon be you a letter of recommendation. (Hands him letter.) It's join MARY in spotlight for CHORUS:) ACT ONE there; from my drama coach. For it's Mary, Mary, plain as any name can be; Scene One Whisper of how I'm yearning to mingle with the old time DICK: (Takes letter, reads it.) Very good. You've had a lot of But with propriety, society will say Marie. throng; amateur experience. it was Mary, Mary, long before the fashions came. Give my regards to old Broadway and say that I'll be But SETTING: A bare stage with miscellaneous flats and work materials there MARY: Oh, yes. And you know my drama coach, of course. e'er long. And there is something there that sounds so fair, about. DICK: Phyllis Jones. It's not exactly a household name. (Hands It's a grand old name. (BLACKOUT.) Give my regards to old Broadway and say that I'll be there letter back.) e'er long. (There is the sound of applause. Members of cast hurry about, AT RISE: EDDIE COWLES is playing the piano, STAGE LEFT. But she's a good friend of your uncle's psychiatrist. She MARY: putting up flats, a few tables and chairs representing the "day A small chorus of about six girls in rehearsal clothes is running was sure you'd remember her. CURTAIN room" of the hospital. MARY and DICK carry off cot and through a song and dance number. DICK FOSTER, the director, DICK: I didn't know my uncle had a psychiatrist. I just knew RE-ENTER. DICK now wears a robe and is struggling to put a is watching from DOWN RIGHT. he needed one. "sling" on his injured arm.