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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Musical. Based on the book by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough.
Libretto by Lois Corey. Score by Gerald Alters and Herbert Hartig.

Synopsis

Young Cornelia and Emily are about to sail for Europe alone! They'll see LIFE; they'll meet men! The show opens with "Mr. Cook has cooked a tour up. And we're on our way to Europe." The girls get their romances tangled and by the time they're untangled, it's time for them to sail for home.

Opening with, "Mr Cook has cooked a tour up. And we're on our way to Europe" this exuberant Musical introduces us to young Cornelia and Emily, about to sail for Europe alone and eager to experience Life and meet men!

And so they do - they have an adventure with a stowaway, mistake the leader of the ship's band for an admiral and meet two very handsome medical students

Then the girls are off to Paris where they get involved with a gas meter that explodes, sleep in a bed that Cardinal Richelieu once used, and convince a great French actor that he should give them acting lessons

Opening with, “Mr Cook has cooked a tour up. And we’re on our way to Europe” this exuberant Musical introduces us to young Cornelia and Emily, about to sail for Europe alone and eager to experience Life and meet men!

And so they do - they have an adventure with a stowaway, mistake the leader of the ship’s band for an admiral and meet two very handsome medical students

Then the girls are off to Paris where they get involved with a gas meter that explodes, sleep in a bed that Cardinal Richelieu once used, and convince a great French actor that he should give them acting lessons

Musical Numbers

  1. Overture - Orchestra
  2. Bon Voyage - Chorus
  3. She's My dearest Friend, But - Emily & Schoolmates
  4. She's My dearest Friend, But - Cornelia & Schoolmates
  5. Bon Voyage (Reprise) - Chorus
  6. The Skinner-Kimborough Guide to Europe - Cornelia, Emily, Dan and Bob
  7. I Hate the Sea - Ship's Officers
  8. Get Away From me - Bob and Family
  9. Measles - Cornelia and Emily
  10. Me - in Paris - Emily and Cornelia
  11. Marry and American - Pierre and Philippe
  12. Marry an American (Reprise) - Elise and Francine
  13. Anytown - Cornelia and Dan
  14. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay - Cornelia and Emily

Cast

  • Emily Kimbrough
  • Cornelia Otis Skinner
  • Otis Skinner
  • Mrs Skinner
  • Two Elderly Ladies
  • An English Couple
  • Elise
  • Francine
  • Tennis Player
  • Bob Thackery
  • Dan Fitzpatrick
  • The Concierge
  • Therese
  • Pierre Henri
  • Babette
  • Philippe Duval
  • Health Inspector
  • First and Second French Bohemians
  • Three ship's Officers
  • Four women in Evening Clothes,

Cornelia's & Emily's Class mates, Passengers, Well-Wishers, Ship's Personnel, Stevedores, Characters in Paris Street Scene

Some of the minor speaking roles as well as the extras can be doubled, since they often appear briefly in only one scene. The number of extras used also can vary, using more or fewer as circumstances permit.

Scenes and Settings

Act I

Act 2

Orchestration available.