Legs Diamond

• Original Broadway Production (1988)
  New York, NY
• Reading (2012)

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Original score

• When I Get My Name in Lights
• Speakeasy
• Applause
• Knockers
• I Was Made for Champagne
• Tropicabana Rhumba
• Sure Thing Baby
• Speakeasy Christmas
• Charge It to A. R.
• Only an Older Woman
• Taxi Dancers' Tango
• Only Steal from Thieves
• Ain't I Something!
• Cut the Cards
• Gangland Chase
• Now You See Me, Now You Don't
• Man Nobody Could Love, The
• The Music Went Out of My Life
• Say It Isn't So
• All I Wanted Was the Dream

Cut during previews

• Prelude
• When I Dream My Dream
• Come Save Me
• To Overcome Passion and Aquire Perfection
• Dreams That Money Can Buy
• Gentlemen Out on a Spree
• If There Were Another You
• Don't Say It's Over
• As Long as Somebody Needs You

• Composer Demo [audio]

Based on the movie The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond by Warner Brothers

A Depression-era gangster seeks a new path by breaking into show business. Using his charm and ambition, he reinvents himself amid glitz and danger, navigating relationships with showgirls, mobsters, and the criminal underworld he hopes to leave behind. Each encounter pulls him deeper, entangling performance dreams with underworld ties—ultimately balancing the allure of an onstage future with a past he cannot escape.

• The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (source material)