Shinbone Alley

• Original Broadway Production (1957)
  New York, NY
• Television Production (1960)
• Film Version (1971)
• Musicals Tonight! Concert (2006)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• What Do We Care?
• Toujours Gai
• Queer Little Insect
• Big Bill
• True Romance
• The Lady Bug Song
• Lightning Bug Song
• I gotta be
• Dog and Cat Ballet
• Flotsam and Jetsam
• Come to Mee-Ow
• Shinbone Alley
• Moth Song
• A Woman Wouldn't Be a Woman
• Lullaby
• What the Hell
• Pretty Kitty
• Way Down Blues
• Vacant Lot Ballet
• Be a Pussycat
• Quiet Street
• Archy's Solo
• Romeo and Juliet
  • aka Shakespeare to a Beat [no note]

Added to film version

• The Theatre Is Fading Away
• Song of Revolution
• Lonely

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

• Mixed TV/Broadway Cast Members (not listed yet)
  

  • Eddie Bracken
  • Eartha Kitt
  • Tammy Grimes

Based on the archie and mehitabel stories by Don Marquis

Based on Don Marquis’s celebrated newspaper sketches, the story follows archy, a thoughtful cockroach, and mehitabel, a free-spirited alley cat, as they navigate the eccentric world of city streets. Through jazz-infused songs, dance, and satire, their adventures capture the humor and struggle of urban life, balancing whimsy with a bittersweet look at survival, friendship, and fleeting dreams in a modern metropolis.

It has been said that Mel Brooks based the premise of his film The Producers (adapted as a Broadway musical in 2001) on his experiences in flops like this.

• archie and mehitabel (original title)