Sandhog

• Original Off-Broadway Production (1954)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

• Original score

  • Come Down
  • Some Said They Were Crazy
  • Stand Back
  • Hey Joe
    • a.k.a. Hey Joe!
  • Johnny's Cursing Song
  • Come and Be Married
  • Johnny O
    • a.k.a. Johnny-O-Katie-O
  • Good Old Days
    • a.k.a. The Good Old Days
  • Song of the Bends
  • By the Glenside
  • High Air
  • Work Song
  • 28 Men
  • Sandhog Song
    • a.k.a. The Sandhog Song
  • Sweat Song
    • a.k.a. Hush-a-Loo
  • Fugue on a Hot Afternoon in a Small Flat
  • T-W-I-N-S
    • a.k.a. Twins
  • Katie O'Sullivan
  • A Key to a Latch of Our Own
  • Sing Sorrow
  • You Want to Mourn
  • Ma, Ma, Where's My Dad?
  • Greathead Shield
    • a.k.a. Great-Head Shield
  • Waiting for the Men
  • Sam on the Stick
  • Ring Iron
  • Oh, Oh, Oh, O'Sullivan

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• Not listed in programs

  • Death of Tim
  • The Wake

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• No demos listed.

Based on the short story "St. Columba and the River" by Theodore Dreiser

Billed in the playbill for the original produciton as a "Ballad in Three Acts" (this was changed to "A Folk Opera in 3 Acts" for the published score), Sandhog tells the story of the worker ("sandhogs") who built the first tunnel under the Hudson River, particularly one who survived a terrifying accident.

No trivia or history.

• St. Columba and the River (source material)