Roza

• World Premiere (1986)
  Baltimore, MD
• Mark Taper Forum Production (1987)
  Los Angeles, CA
• Original Broadway Production (1987)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Happiness
• Max's Visit
• Diff'rent
  • aka Different [no note]
• Is Me
• Get the Lady Dressed
• Hamil's Birthday
• Bravo Bravo
• Moon Like a Silver Window
• Merci
• House in Algiers
• Yussef's Visit
• Life Is Ahead of Me
• Sweet Seventeen
• Lola's Ceremony
• Live a Little

Cut prior to opening

• Don't Make Me Laugh

Cut prior to tryout

• Don't Even Think About Tomorrow
• Bouillabaisse People
• N'Da's Letter
• N'Da's Salespitch
  • aka Salespitch [no note]
• Roza's Yiddish High
• World Belongs to Crazy People, The
• Lion and the Lamb, The
• Get the Lady Undressed
• Street Act
• Tangobird
• Looking After Ourselves
• Go Death
• Lady in a Red Gown
• Meet Me Half Way

• Studio Demo (198?) [audio]
• Composer Demo [audio]

Based on La Vie Devant Soi by Romain Gary

Roza is a former prostitute and Nazi concentration camp prison. Now, she is a surrogate mother to the unwanted children of Parisian prostitutes.

The novel was also the basis for the 1987 film Madame Roza.

• La Vie Devant Soi (no note)