Curley McDimple

• Original Off-Broadway Production (1967)
  New York, NY
• Off-Broadway Revival (1972)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Cup of Coffee, A
• I Try
• Curley McDimple
• Love Is the Loveliest Love Song
• Are There Any More Rosie O'Gradys?
• Dancing in the Rain
• Be Grateful for What You've Got
• At the Playland Jamboree
• Curley's the Girlie for Me
• I've Got a Little Secret
• You Little Monkey, You
• Stars and Lovers
• Meanest Man in Town, The
• Something Nice Is Going to Happen
• Swing-a-Ding-a-Ling
• Hi de hi de hi, Hi de hi de ho
• Dwarfs' Song

In the 1930s, Curley (a Shirley Temple-like character) arrives at Sarah's Theatrical Boarding House, a shabby but homey theatrical boarding house in Manhattan, New York City, run by a nice Irish lady, Sarah. Curley is an optimistic eight years old and is looking for parents to adopt her; she settles on Alice and Jimmy. They are performers who are both boarders at the house—they fall in love with each other at first sight. The boarders aid Sarah, who is threatened with losing her house through foreclosure by the banker, Mr. Gillingwater, by putting on a benefit vaudeville show. A mean Social worker, during the rehearsals for the benefit, steals Curley away, taking her to an orphanage in New Jersey. Curley is able to escape and she performs in the show, which is a hit and is picked up by Broadway. Curley finds out that Gillingwater is her grandfather and that he is a former sweetheart of Sarah's, and Jimmy and Alice get married.

There was to have been an original cast album recorded by Capitol Records but for some unknown reason it was never recorded. They did, however, record the 45-rpm disk by original cast members listed under excerpts.