Allegro

• Original Broadway Production (1947)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1948)
   
• Lambertville Music Circus Production (1952)
  Lambertville, NJ
• Goodspeed Production (1968)
  East Haddam, CT
• Equity Library Theatre Revival (1978)
  New York, NY
• Encores! Concert (1994)
  New York, NY
• Reading (2002)
  New York, NY
• Off-Broadway Revival (2014)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Joseph Taylor, Jr.
  • aka Joseph Taylor Jr. [no note]
  • aka Opening (Joseph Taylor, Jr.) [no note]
  • aka The Birth of Joe [Title in program for Equity Library Theatre production]
• I Know It Can Happen Again
• One Foot, Other Foot
• A Fellow Needs a Girl
• Freshman Dance
  • aka Freshman Get Together [Title in published score]
• Dream Sequence
  • aka As They Imagine They Are [no note]
  • aka Freshman Dance: As They Imagine They Are [no note]
• A Darn Nice Campus
• The Purple and Brown
  • aka Wildcats [Title in published score]
• So Far
• You Are Never Away
• What a Lovely Day for a Wedding
• It May Be a Good Idea for Joe
  • aka It May Be a Good Idea [Title in published score]
• To Have and to Hold
  • aka Wedding: (a) To Have and To Hold [no note]
• Wish Them Well
  • aka Wedding: (b) Wish Them Well [no note]
• Money Isn't Everything
• Hazel Dances
  • aka Dance (Money Isn't Everything) [Title in published score]
• Yatata, Yatata, Yatata
  • aka Ya-Ta-Ta [no note]
  • aka Ya-ta-ta, Ya-ta-ta [Title in program for Equity Library Theatre production]
  • aka Yatata [Title on PS Classics recording]
• The Gentleman Is a Dope
• Allegro
• Come Home

Cut prior to opening

• My Wife
• Two Short Years
• Sitting on the Porch in the Moonlight
• Will You Marry Me?

Added to 1967 Caliornia production

• Wedding
  • aka Wedding Finale [Title for entire wedding sequence in program for Equity Library Theatre production]
• Allegro Ballet
• Pudgy Legs
• Children's Dance
• Grandmother's Death
• Winters Go By
• Poor Joe
• Diploma
• Annabelle Solo
  • aka Pas de Deux [Title on PS Classics recording]
• End of College Dance
• Jennie Reads Letter
• Scene of Professors (Rotunda)
• Marjorie's Death
• Johnny One-Note

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (2009)
  Nathan Gunn , Audra McDonald , Marni Nixon , Laura Benanti , Patrick Wilson

Allegro dramatizes, with the help of a chorus that both narrates and comments on the action, the first 35 years of the life of Joseph Taylor, Jr., starting on the day of his birth in an unnamed small town where his father is the town doctor. We follow him through his time in college and medical school, to his move to Chicago during the Depression, where he has been offered a partnership in a large practice catering primarily to the wealthy and connected to a major hospital. This decision is made primarily at the urging of his strong-willed wife, Jennie, whose family was well off before the Depression and who is tired of being married to a poor doctor.

In Chicago, he finds himself functioning more as a administrator than as a doctor who helps people truly in need. A combination of personal and moral crises and issues leads him to leave his wife and return to his hometown.

Richard Nelson worked on a revised version for a time, interpolating events from Oscar Hammerstein's life into the story. However, no production was ever mounted.