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Original Broadway Production (1976)

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Musical Numbers

Original Musical Numbers List

Act One

  • [Overture .... Orchestra]
  • Rehearse! .... The President, the First Lady, Lud, Seena and Entire Company
  • If I Was a Dove .... Little Lud
  • On Ten Square Miles by the Potomac River .... Washington and Delegates
  • Welcome Home Miz Adams .... Henry, Rachel and Staff
  • Take Care of This House .... John and Abigail Adams, Little Lud and Staff
  • The President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon Party March .... Jefferson, Little Lud and Guests
  • Seena .... Lud
  • Sonatina (The British) .... Admiral Cockburn, Officers and Clitzens
    • Allegro con brio
    • Tempo di menuetto (including an authentic harmonization of "To Anacreon in Heav'n" (1974) later known as "The Star Bangled Banner")
    • Rondo
  • Lud's Wedding
    • I Love My Wife .... Lud, Seena and Staff
  • Auctions .... Auctioneer and Buyers
  • The Little White Lie .... James and Eliza Monroe
  • We Must Have a Ball .... Buchanan
  • The Ball .... Entire Company

Act Two

  • [Entr'acte .... Orchestra]
  • Forty Acres and a Mule .... The Staff
  • Bright and Black .... Seena and Staff
  • Duet for One (First Lady of the Land) .... Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes and Ensemble
  • The Robber-Baron Minstrel Parade .... The Minstrels
  • Pity the Poor .... The Minstrels
  • The Red, White and Blues .... The Minstrels
  • Rehearse! .... Entire Company

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

These song lists document any changes that the production went through aside from the opening night song list.

Later Philadelphia

Act One

  • Prelude
  • On Ten Square Miles by the Potomac River
  • If I Was a Dove
  • The Free City
  • The Nation That Wasn't There
  • Welcome Home Miz Adams
  • Take Care of This House
  • The President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon Party March
  • Seena
  • The Nation That Wasn't There (Reprise)
  • Sonatina (The British)
  • The Nation That Wasn't There (Reprise)
  • Lud's Wedding: I Love My Wife
  • Auctions
  • Monroviad
  • This Time
  • Take Care of This House (Reprise)
  • We Must Have a Ball
  • The Ball

Act Two

  • Philadelphia
  • Uncle Tom
  • Bright and Black
  • Duet for One
  • Hail Garfield
  • Hail Arthur
  • The Money-Lovin' Minstrel Parade
  • Pity the Poor
  • The Grand Old Party
  • The Red, White and Blues
  • American Dreaming
  • To Make Us Proud

Philadelphia First Preview (2/23/1976)

Act One

  • Prelude
  • On Ten Square Miles by the Potomac River
  • If I Was a Dove
  • The Free City
  • The Nation That Wasn't There
  • Welcome Home Miz Adams
  • Take Care of This House
  • The President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon Party March
  • Seena
  • The Nation That Wasn't There (Reprise)
  • Is You Me?
  • They's Marching on Washington!
  • Sonatina (The British)
  • The Nation That Wasn't There (Reprise)
  • Lud's Wedding: I Love My Wife
  • Auctions
  • Monroviad
  • This Time
  • The Mark of a Man
  • Take Care of This House (Reprise)
  • We Must Have a Ball
  • The Ball

Act Two

  • Philadelphia
  • Bright and Black
  • Duet for One
  • The Money-Lovin' Minstrel Parade
  • Pity the Poor
  • The Grand Old Party
  • The Red, White and Blues
  • American Dreaming
  • To Make Us Proud

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