A Mother's Kisses

• Closed on the road (1968)
  New Haven, CT

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Original score

• There Goes My Life
• Look at Those Faces
• With a Little Help from Your Mother
• Left by the Wayside
• When You Gonna Learn
  • aka When You Gonna Learn to Put Your Money on this Baby [no note]
• We've Got Meg
  • aka He's Got Meg [no note]
• Where Did the Summer Go
• People of Passionate Nature
• They Won't Regret It
• I Told Them We Were Lovers
• I Have a Terrible Secret
• A Course in Your Mother

Cut prior to closing

• Fellas Kiss Their Dads
• Meg's New York
• Wait, Baby, Wait

• Studio Demo (1968) [audio]

Uninhibited Meg secures her shy son Joseph a waiter’s job at Camp Fleetwind, then rents a nearby cottage to keep watch. After he’s accused of theft and nearly loses an arm to infection, she intervenes with a specialist. Determined to shape his future, Meg schemes to get him into college and secure housing, even posing as his lover to share a room. Her meddling continues on campus, culminating in a police call when he’s late from a date. Joseph rebels, asking her to leave; Meg departs, declaring his best course would be one in her personality.

Gabriel Katzka, Gustave Berne and Buddy Robbins acquired the rights to the book in 1964 for $30,000 and announced the production for the 1966-67 season. Katzka and Berne moved on to other projects and Robbins became responsible for television musical spectaculars.

The three hired Jerome Chodorov to write the book and Richard Adler and Bob Merrill to do the score.

After Katzka, Berne and Robbins moved on, Alan King, Walter A. Hyman, Eugene Wolsk and Emanuel Azenberg came in. They hired Avery Schreiber to develop a treatment.