A Family Affair

• Original Broadway Production (1962)
  New York, NY
• Musicals in Mufti Production (2003)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• A Family Affair
  • aka The Wedding Song [no note]
• Anything for You
• Beautiful
• My Son, the Lawyer
• Every Girl Wants to Get Married
• Right Girls
• Kalua Bay
• There's a Room in My House
• Siegal Marching Song
• Nathan Marching Song
• Harmony
• Now, Morris
• Wonderful Party
• Revenge
• Summer Is Over
• I'm Worse Than Anybody
• What I Say Goes
• The Wedding

Cut during Philadelphia tryout

• Mamie
  • aka Mamie in the Afternoon [no note]
• Milwaukee

In Chicago, Gerry Siegal and Sally Nathan, a young suburban Chicago couple, decide to marry. The bride's Uncle Alfie (her guardian) wants an intimate wedding and wages a war of words with the groom's entire family. The groom's brassy Jewish mother Tillie commandeers the planning, steering it towards a large country club wedding (despite her husband's scolding her for taking over). Caterers, dressmakers, band leaders, rabbis, florists, photographers and a bossy wedding planner are pushed to the limit by the madcap preparations. The bride and groom, who have retained their sanity, realize that their families have almost destroyed the wedding. They announce their intention to have a quiet family affair.

 

This was John Kander's first show, and his only one without Fred Ebb.