Oh! Calcutta!
a Musical Revue in 2 Acts, 13 Scenes - devised by Kenneth Tynan. Music & Lyrics: The Open Window.
Librettist: Samuel Beckett, Robert Benton, Jules Feiffer, Dan Greenurg,
John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman, Sam Shepard,
Clovis Trouille, Kenneth Tynan, Sherman Yellen.
Choreography: Margo Sappington; Costumes: Fred Voelpel.
The Roundhouse, London - 27 July, 1970; Transferred to Royalty Theatre,
London - 30 September, 1970
Eden Theatre, Off-Brioadway, New York - 17 January, 1969 (704 perfs)
Belasco Theatre, Broadway - Opened 25th February, 1071. Closed 12th August 1972 (606 perfs)
Musical Numbers:
- Prologue
- Taking Off the Robe (Oh, Calcutta)
- Dick and Jane
- Suite for Five Letters
- (Will Answer All) Sincere Replies (Sketch and Song)
- Painting of Clovis Trouille
- Jack and Jill (Song and Sketch)
- Delicious Indignities (or The Deflowering of Helen Axminster)
(- scene: An elegantly appointed study in Knightsbridge. 1896)
- Was It Good For You Too? ("Green Pants", "I Like the Look")
- Who: Whom ("Exchanges of Information")
- Much Too Soon
- One On One (Clarence and Mildred)
- Rock Garden
( - scene:
Saturday Afternoon, just after lunch before the ball game)
- Four In Hand
- Coming Together, Going Together
(Medley: "I Don't Have a Song to Sing", "I'm An Actor", "Ballerina", "I Want It", "Freeze Music", "I Want It" - reprise)
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