Up in Central Park

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Up in Central Park
Sheet Music Cover(cropped)
Music Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics Dorothy Fields
Book Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields
Productions 1945 Broadway

Up in Central Park is a Broadway musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Sigmund Romberg.

Produced by Michael Todd, the Broadway production, staged by John Kennedy and choreographed by Helen Tamiris, opened on January 27, 1945 at the The Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 504 performances. Cast included Wilbur Evans and Betty Bruce.

The musical is set in the Boss Tweed era of New York in the 1870s. Wilbur Evans plays John Matthews, a New York Times reporter investigating the Tweed’s crooked political machine, especially the fraud connected with constructing Central Park. He falls in love with the daughter of one of the Boss’ ward healers, who marries a politician, who is killed. She laters rekindles her love for Matthews. The settings, costumes and dances evoked the lithographs of Currier and Ives.

In 1948 this musical was made into a film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Dick Hymes and Vincent Price. The movie version omits much of the Broadway score.



Songs

Act I
  • Up from the Gutter
  • Carrousel in the Park
  • It Doesn’t Cost You Anything to Dream
  • Boss Tweed
  • When She Walks in the Room
  • Currier and Ives
  • Close as Pages in a Book
  • Rip Van Winkle
  • The Fireman’s Bride
Act II
  • When the Party Gives a Party
  • Maypole Dance
  • The Big Back Yard
  • April Snow
  • Finaletto
  • The Birds and the Bees

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Musicals by Sigmund Romberg

Blossom Time (Das Dreimäderlhaus) (arranger) · The Blue Paradise · Bombo · Princess Flavia · My Maryland  · The Desert Song · The New Moon · Maytime · May Wine · Robinson Crusoe, Jr. · Sinbad · The Student Prince · Up in Central Park