Li'l Abner

• Original Broadway Production (1956)
  New York, NY
• Las Vegas Production (1958)
• Bus and Truck Tour (1958)
• National Tour (1958)
• Film Version (1959)
• Encores! Concert (1998)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• It's a Typical Day
• If I Had My Druthers
• Jubilation T. Cornpone
• Rag Offen the Bush
  • aka Don't That Take the Rag Offen the Bush [no note]
• Namely You
• Unnecessary Town
• What's Good for General Bullmoose
• There's Room Enough for Us
• The Country's in the Very Best of Hands
• Sadie Hawkins Ballet
  • aka Sadie Hawkins Day Ballet [no note]
• Oh, Happy Day
• I'm Past My Prime
• Love in a Home
• Progress Is the Root of All Evil
• Put 'Em Back
• The Matrimonial Stomp

Cut prior to opening

• The Way to a Man's Heart
• It's a Nuisance Having You Around

Added to film version

• I Wish It Could Be Otherwise
  • aka Otherwise [no note]

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

• Instrumental Album (1960)

As Sadie Hawkins Day approaches, Daisy Mae hopes to win the hand of Li'l Abner by catching him in the traditional race. A senator comes to visit to tell the residents of Dogpatch that their town is to be used as an atomic bomb testing ground, unless they can find something necessary about the town. Could Mammy Yokum's Yokumberry tonic (which Abner has taken every day since he was a baby) be the key?

The property was originally taken up by Alan Jay Lerner who intended to collaborate with Arthur Schwartz or Burton Lane. Lerner, however, was unable to suitably adapt the material and left the project.

• Lil Abner (searchable title)