The Life

• Workshop (1990)
• Showcase (1990)
  New York, NY
• Original Broadway Production (1997)
  New York, NY
• London Fringe Revival (2017)
  London, England

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Original score

• Check It Out!
• Use What You Got
• A Lovely Day to Be Out of Jail
• Oh, Daddy
• A Piece of the Action
• The Oldest Profession
• Don't Take Much
• Hey, Daddy
• Go Home
• You Can't Get to Heaven
• My Body
• Why Don't They Leave Us Alone
• Easy Money
• He's No Good
• I'm Leaving You
• The Hookers' Ball
• Step Right Up
• Mr. Greed
• My Way or the Highway
• People Magazine
• We Had a Dream
• 'Someday' Is for Suckers
  • aka Someday [no note]
  • aka Someday Is for Suckers [no note]
• My Friend
• We Gotta Go

Cut prior to New York opening

• The Street
• Getting Too Old
• Working Girls
• Reefer Man
• Signifyin' Monkey
• Lucky Me

Cut during previews

• Was That a Smile

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

• Studio Cast (1995)
  Lou Rawls , Jennifer Holliday , Liza Minnelli , Billy Preston (i) , Jack Jones