Curly and Laurey drive off on their honeymoon, "in a surrey with the fringe on top". CHARACTERS • AUNT ELLER - A middle-aged down-to-earth 'mother to everyone'. She is Laurey's aunt and confidante, and has a very friendly personality. • CURLY - The young cowman in love with Laurey. His heart is in the right place and he is strong in facing up to Jud. • LAUREY - Our heroine. She is confused about Curly and seems always to be waiting for him to make the first move; she is too innocent to see that her acceptance of Jud's invitation will mean trouble. • IKE SKIDMORE - A ranch-house cowman. • SLIM, FRED - Cowman friends of Ike and Curly's. • WILL PARKER - A hapless young cowman who is very much in love with Annie. He has a pleasant happy-go-lucky disposition, but needs to assert himself strongly to get her full attention. • JUD FRY - The hired hand on Laurey's farm. Sullen, mysterious and dangerous. Nobody likes him and he lives a lonely depressive existence in the smokehouse, dreaming broodily of real women, not the pin-ups on the walls. • ADO ANNIE - A flirtatious girl who cannot resist any man, particularly if a wedding ring is in prospect. • ALI HAKIM - A Persian peddler and a shrewd salesman. A great one for the girls, but not too adept at avoiding shotguns! • GERTIE - Another flirt whose presence is always announced by her ear-piercing laugh. Like Annie, she just wants to get married to someone. • ELLEN, KATE, SYLVIE,ARMINA, AGGIE - A group of fun-loving farmer's daughters who form the ensemble at the Box Social and the ballet at the end of Act One. MUSICAL NUMBERS Overture 1. OPENING Act 1 - Oh, What a Beautiful Morning! - Curly - "There's a bright golden haze on the meadow" 2. LAUREY'S ENTRANCE - Laurey - "Oh, what a beautiful morning!" 3. SONG - The Surrey With the Fringe On Top - Curly (with Laurey) - "When I take you out tonight with me" 4. SONG - Kansas City - Will Parker - "I got to Kansas City on a Friday" 5. REPRISE - The Surrey With the Fring On Top - Curly - "The wheels are yeller" 6. SONG - I'm Cain't Say No - Ado Annie - "It ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do" 7. ENCORE - I Cain't Say No 8. ENTRANCE OF ENSEMBLE - "S'posin' 'at I say 'at you lips 're like cherries" 9. SONG - Many a New Day - Laurey (with Girls) - "Why should a woman who is healthy and strong" 10. DANCE - "Many a New Day" 11. CHORUS OF MEN - It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage! - "Friend, what's on your mind?" 12. DUET - People Will Say We're In Love - Curly and Laurey - "Why do they think up stories" 13. CHANGE OF SCENE 14. DUET - Pore Jud Is Daid - Curly and Jud - " Pore Jud is daid" 15. SONG - Lonely Room - Jud - "The floor creaks, the door squeaks" 16. CHANGE OF SCENE 17. DREAM SEQUENCE a) - Melos b) - Out of My Dreams - Girls - "Out of my dreams and into his arms you long to fly" c) - Interlude to Ballet d) - Dream Ballet
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