Woman of the Year (musical)

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Woman of the Year is a Broadway musical comedy with a book by Peter Stone and score by John Kander and Fred Ebb.

Based on the Ring Lardner Jr.-Michael Kanin screenplay for the 1942 Katherine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film of the same name, the plot centers on a couple of newspaper reporters who experience difficulty merging their careers with their marriage.

After eleven previews, the production, directed by Robert Moore, opened on March 29, 1981 at the Palace Theatre, where it ran for 770 performances. The cast included Lauren Bacall, Harry Guardino, and Marilyn Cooper. Sets were designed by Tony Walton and costumes were by Theoni V. Aldredge.

[edit] Song list

Act 1

• Woman of the Year
• The Poker Game
• See You in the Funny Papers
• When You're Right, You're Right!
• Shut Up, Gerald
• So What Else Is New?
• One of the Boys
• Table Talk
• The Two of Us
• It Isn't Working
• I Told You So
• Woman of the Year

Act 2

• So What Else Is New? (Reprise)
• I Wrote the Book
• Happy in the Morning
• Sometimes a Day Goes By
• The Grass Is Always Greener
• We're Gonna Work It Out

[edit] Awards and nominations

• Tony Award for Best Musical (nominee)
• Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (winner)
• Tony Award for Best Original Score (winner)
• Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Bacall, winner)
• Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Cooper, winner)
• Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (nominee)
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Cooper, winner)

[edit] External link

Internet Broadway Database listing

Kander and Ebb musicals
Flora the Red Menace • Cabaret • The Happy Time • Zorba • 70 Girls 70 • Chicago • The Act • Woman of the Year • The Rink • And The World Goes 'Round • Kiss of the Spider Woman • Steel Pier • The Skin Of Our Teeth • The Visit • Curtains