OIL CITY SYMPHONY

Lyrics - Mike Craver: Composed by Mark Hardwick, Dea Monk: Book by Mike Craver, Mark Hardwick, Dea Monk and Mary Murfitt

Circle in the Square Downtown - Off Broadway - November 5, 1987 (626 perfs)

Synopsis

Imagine your school gym, festooned with crepe paper, with four music stands on an improvised stage. Let your imagination go - four alumni of the local high school come back "for one night only" to give a recital in honour of their music teacher - with something borrowed, nothing blue and innocent fun in generous measure. That's Oil City Symphony, the latest creation from the writers of Pump Boys And Dinettes. When was the last time that an audience in your town did the hokey-pokey together?

Musical Numbers:

1. Count Your Blessings
2. Czardas
3. A Classical Selection - The Anvil Chorus
4. A Popular Selection - In a Gadda-Da-Vida
5. Ohio Afternoon
6. Baby It's Cold Outside
7. The Hokey Pokey
8. Beaver Ball at the Bug Club
9. Beehive Polka
10. A Patriotic Fantasy
11. Dizzy Fingers
12. Getting Acquainted
13. Iris
14. The End of the World
15. Dear Miss Reeves
16. Coaxing the Piano
17. Bus Ride
18. In the Sweet Bye and Bye
19. My Ol' Kentucky Rock and Roll HOme
20. Exodus
21. Sleigh Ride
22. The Christmas Medley
23. The Summer Medley
    

Cast:

2 men, 2 women

Instrumentation:

percussion, piano db. accordion, synthesizer, violin db. flute/tenor sax

Discography

Original Cast Recording - DRG CDSBL 12594