Showlist B
BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
Original concept by Roger Cook & Les Reed.
Music and Lyrics by Les Reed and Roger Cook
Book by Kit Hesketh-Harvey
Additional Material by Laurence Myers
Lyric Theatre, London - 10 May - 14 August, 2004
Bio-musical based on the life of F. Scott-Fitzgerald and his wife
Zelda.
The story is told in flashback starting in 1938 with an institutionalised
Zelda, afflicted by delusions. She is persuaded by a doctor to unlock
the memories that are disturbing her.
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Original Cast:
Scott - Micahel Praed
Zelda - Helen Anker
His Honour/Hemmingway - David Burt
Minnie - Susannah Fellows
Marsha/Mme Egorova - Valerie
Lois - Heather Douglas
Young Zelda/Scottie - Katie Foster-Barnes
Dexter - Loren Geeting
Rosalind/Hell Let Loose - Jo Gibb
Eduouard Jozan - Jolyon James
Nanny - Jane Lucas
Maxwell/Dr. Meyer - Stuart Nurse
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Musical Numbers
- I'm Dancing (Zelda, Young Zelda)
- No Can Figure (Zelda and Suitors)
- Beautiful Magnolia (Scott)
- Refuse to be a Girl (Zelda, Minnie, Rosalind)
- Little Miz Alabama (His Honour and Scott)
- Tomorrow Won't Happen (Customers, Barmaids and Casey's Grill
Girls)
- The Letters (Scott and Zelda)
- The Letters (Reprise) (Scott)
- Beautful Magnolia (Reprise) (Scott)
- Beautiful and Damned (The Company)
- Finale: Act I - (Scott)
- On the Riviera (The Company)
- Living Well's the Only Way (The Company)
- The Old World Shines Again (Mme Egorova and Company)
- The Old World Shines Again (Reprise) (Edouard)
- Trouble (Mme Egorova and Girls of Le Cabuchon)
- Cocaine Tap (The Company)
- Dream Ballet (Zelda)
- Golden Days (Zelda)
- The Queen of Babylon (Lois)
- Tender is the Night (Scott)
- Save Me the Waltz (Scott and Zelda)
- Bring a Woman (Minnie, Lois, Rosalind, Scottie)
- Even Now (Scott and Zelda)
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Discography
There is no commercially available Cast Recording for this show
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