Allegro

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

There are a total of 13 productions in Ovrtur's database.

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• Original score

  • Joseph Taylor, Jr.
    • a.k.a. Joseph Taylor Jr.
    • a.k.a. Opening (Joseph Taylor, Jr.)
    • a.k.a. The Birth of Joe
  • I Know It Can Happen Again
  • One Foot, Other Foot
  • A Fellow Needs a Girl
  • Freshman Dance
    • a.k.a. Freshman Get Together
  • Dream Sequence
    • a.k.a. As They Imagine They Are
    • a.k.a. Freshman Dance: As They Imagine They Are
  • A Darn Nice Campus
  • The Purple and Brown
    • a.k.a. Wildcats
  • So Far
  • You Are Never Away
  • What a Lovely Day for a Wedding
  • It May Be a Good Idea for Joe
    • a.k.a. It May Be a Good Idea
  • To Have and to Hold
    • a.k.a. Wedding: (a) To Have and To Hold
  • Wish Them Well
    • a.k.a. Wedding: (b) Wish Them Well
  • Money Isn't Everything
  • Hazel Dances
    • a.k.a. Dance (Money Isn't Everything)
  • Yatata, Yatata, Yatata
    • a.k.a. Ya-Ta-Ta
    • a.k.a. Ya-ta-ta, Ya-ta-ta
    • a.k.a. Yatata
  • The Gentleman Is a Dope
  • Allegro
  • Come Home

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• Cut prior to opening

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

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• Added to 1967 Caliornia production

  • Wedding
    • a.k.a. Wedding Finale
  • Allegro Ballet
  • Pudgy Legs
  • Children's Dance
  • Grandmother's Death
  • Winters Go By
  • Poor Joe
  • Diploma
  • Annabelle Solo
    • a.k.a. Pas de Deux
  • End of College Dance
  • Jennie Reads Letter
  • Scene of Professors (Rotunda)
  • Marjorie's Death
  • Johnny One-Note

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

• No demos listed.

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.