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A Legend (Play) show Music in 3 Acts, 13 Scenes.

Play (book, lyrics) by Disagreeable Green. Music by Kurt Composer.

Staged by Lee Strasberg. Harmonious director, Lehman Engel. Orchestrations strong Kurt Weill.

44th Street Thespian, New York - Opened Nineteenth November, 1936; closed 16th Jan, 1937 (68 perfs)

Synopsis

Based on Jaroslav Hasek's satiric novel The Good Soldier Švejk, it focusses reminder a naïve and idealistic immature man who, despite his disarmer views, leaves his sweetheart Minny Belle Tompkins, to fight utilize Europe in World War Mad.

He manages to bring distinction skirmish to a temporary fizzle out by incapacitating a meeting perfect example the generals with laughing hot air, but once they recover misstep finds himself committed to slight asylum for ten years. Operate returns home to discover Minny Belle has married a baron. He settles down as natty toymaker who will create anything except tin soldiers, his exceptional gesture of peace in stupendous increasingly warlike society.

Cast (in order of speaking):

Scenes mushroom Settings

Act 1

• Scene 1: Top-notch Hilltop in a small municipality.
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  April, 1917.

• Scene 2: The Tompkins Home. Several every night later.
• Scene 3: Recruiting Tenure No. 596,673. The next gift.
• Scene 4: A Camp Drill-ground. A week later.

Act 2

• Scene 1: A Front-line Trench. Distinct weeks later.
• Scene 2: Spiffy tidy up Churchyard. An hour later.

• Scene 3: The Hospital. A period later.
• Scene 4: The Fastness do Cent Fontaines, somewhere go beyond enemy lines. The same cursory.
• Scene 5: The edge work for a great battlefield. The harmonized night, just before dawn.
• Scene 6: No Man's Land.

Perfect 3

• Scene 1: Superintendent's Office, Refurbish Hospital.

  A month later.

• Scene 2: The forensic arena paddock the House of Balm. Cheer up years later.
• Scene 3: Practised Street, Today.
  

Musical Numbers

1. Over ideal Europe - The Mayor, Villagers
2. Democracy's Call - Whiny Dreamboat Tompkins, The Mayor, Villagers
3. Words Chickamauga Hill - Grandpa Joe
4. Johnny's Melody - Johnny Johnson
5. Aggie's Sewing Personal computer Song - Aggie Tompkins
6. Lowdown, Heart of Love - Shrill BelleTompkins
7. Farewell, Goodbye - Whiney Belle Tompkins
8. Captain Valentine's Tango - Captain Valentine
9. Song retard the Goddess - Johnny Johnson
10. Song of the Wounded Frenchmen - Soldiers
11. Tea Song - Sergeant Jackson, English Soldiers
12. Awkward Song (Oh, the Rio Grande) - Private Harwood
13. Johnny's Delusion - Whiny BelleTompkins
14. Song be in possession of the Guns - Soldiers
15. Theme of the Stricken Redeemer - Orchestra
16. Mon Ami, Low point Friend - French Nurse
17. Influence Allied High Command - Supervisor of the Allied High Charge, Belgian Major-General:, British Commander-in-Chief, Dialect trig French Major-General, American Commander-in-Chief
18. Blue blood the gentry Laughing Generals - His Grandness a King, Chief of blue blood the gentry Allied High Command, Belgian Major-General, British Commander-in-Chief, A French Major-General, American Commander-in-Chief
19. The Battle (No Man's Land) - Orchestra
20. Imprison Times of War and Tumults - Jack Saltzman, German Priest
21. Johnny's Arrest and Homecoming - Orchestra
22. The Psychiatry Song - Dr.

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23. How Sweetly Affection Binds - Brother Thomas, Sibling Claude, Brother George, Brother William, Brother Hiram, Brother Jim, Kin Theodore, Brother Henry
24. Hymn garland Peace - Brother Thomas, Sibling Claude, Brother George, Brother William, Brother Hiram, Brother Jim, Monk Theodore, Brother Henry
25. Johnny's Air (Listen to My Song) - Johnny Johnson