Sophisticated Ladies

Cast Highlights

Main Program

• I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter
• Music Is a Woman
• Mooche, The
• Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce
• I Love You Madly
• Perdido
• Fat and Forty (You're My Meat)
• It Don't Mean a Thing
• Bli-Blip
• Cotton Tail
• Take the 'A' Train
• Solitude
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
• Caravan
• Something to Live For
• Old Man Blues
• Drop Me Off in Harlem
• Rockin' in Rhythm
• C Jam Blues
• Duke's Place
• Diminuendo in Blue
• In a Sentimental Mood
• I'm Beginning to See the Light
• Satin Doll
• Just Squeeze Me
• Dancers in Love
• Echoes of Harlem
• I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So
• Hey Babe
• Imagine My Frustration
• Kinda Dukish
• Ko-Ko
• I'm Checking Out Goombye
• Do Nothing 'Til You Hear from Me
• I Got It Bad
• Mood Indigo
• Sophisticated Lady
• It Don't Mean a Thing

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

A 30th anniversary reunion concert was held at Birdland in New York on April 25, 2011. It featured Adrian Bailey, Priscilla Baskerville, Hinton Battle, P.J. Benjamin, Mercedes Ellington, Ken Hanson, Bruce Heath, Terri Klausner, Michael Lichtefeld, Paula Lynn, Frank Owens, Valarie Pettiford, Wynonna Smith, Ty Stephens, Faruma Williams and others. The performance was accompanied by the Duke Ellington Big Band.

Main Run

• Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (New York, NY)
  3/1/1981 - 1/2/1983

Tryout Dates

• No tryout venues listed.

Commercial Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (1981)

Private Recordings

• Original Cast (Pre-Broadway) (1981)
  Gregory Hines , Judith Jamison , Phyllis Hyman , P.J. Benjamin , Hinton Battle
• Original Broadway Cast (1981)
  Gregory Hines , Judith Jamison , P. J. Benjamin , Phyllis Hyman , Priscilla Baskerville

Commercial Recordings

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  Pay-Per-View Taping (1982)