The Apple Tree

• Original Broadway Production (1966)
  New York, NY
• Equity Library Theatre Revival (1973)
  New York, NY
• York Theatre Company Production (1987)
  New York, NY
• London Revival (2002)
  London, England
• Encores! Concert (2005)
  New York, NY
• Roundabout Revival (2006)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Here in Eden
• Feelings
• Eve
• Friends
• The Apple Tree
  • aka Forbidden Fruit [no note]
  • aka The Apple Tree (Forbidden Fruit) [no note]
• Beautiful, Beautiful World
  • aka Beautiful World [no note]
• It's a Fish
• Go to Sleep, Whatever You Are
  • aka Go to Sleep Whatever You Are [no note]
• What Makes Me Love Him?
  • aka What Makes Me Love Him [no note]
• I'll Tell You a Truth
  • aka The Lady or the Tiger? [no note]
• Make Way
• Forbidden Love (in Gaul)
• I've Got What You Want
• Tiger, Tiger
• Which Door?
• Oh, To Be a Movie Star
• Gorgeous
• Who, Who, Who, Who, Who Is She?
  • aka (Who, Who, Who, Who,) Who Is She? [no note]
• I Know
• Wealth
• You Are Not Real
• George L.
• I'm Lost

Cut prior to opening

• Eden, Eden
• What Was That
• Rain
• She Swept
• If I Was a Beautiful, Glamorous Movie Star
• Talkin' Truth
• Peek-a-Boo

Cut during tryout

• I'm a Happy Man
• One Third Princess
• Useful

• Composer Demo [audio]

The first act, "The Diary Of Adam And Eve," is a quirky, touching spin on the tale of the world's first couple, adapted from Mark Twain's Extracts From Adam's Diary. The second act, "The Lady Or The Tiger?," explores the fickleness of love in a rock and roll fable set in a mythical barbarian kingdom. Finally, "Passionella" is based on Jules Feiffer's offbeat Cinderella-story about a chimney sweep whose dreams of being a "glamorous movie star" nearly sabotage her one chance for true love.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Bruce Jay Friedman's "Show-Biz Connections" were originally to have provided the source material for the second and third acts. By April 1966, Frank R. Stockton's "The Lady or the Tiger?" had replaced the Hawthorne story. As late as early June 1966, the Friedman story was still being mentioned in press releases about the show.

• Come Back! Go Away! I Love You! (working title)
• The Diary of Adam and Eve (no note)
• The Lady or the Tiger? (no note)
• Passionella (no note)