Subways Are for Sleeping

• Original Broadway Production (1961)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Subways Are for Sleeping
• Girls Like Me
• Station Rush
• I'm Just Taking My Time
  • aka Taking My Time [alternate title]
• I Was a Shoo-In
• Subway Directions
• Ride Through the Night
• Who Knows What Might Have Been?
  • aka It Might Have Been [no note]
• Swing Your Projects
  • aka Capital Gains [no note]
• Strange Duet
  • aka When You Help a Friend Out [no note]
• I Said It and I'm Glad
• Be a Santa
• Subway Incident
• How Can You Describe a Face?
• I Just Can't Wait
• Comes Once in a Lifetime
• What Is This Feeling in the Air?
• Getting Married

Cut prior to Philadelphia

• Hey Fellas, Let's Talk

Cut prior to Boston

• Now I Have Someone
• Got to Think of Her
• Mr. Vision

Cut prior to Broadway

• We Want Pity

• Demo Recording [audio]

Suggested by the nonfiction book of the same title by Edmund G. Love.

Journalist Angie McKay sets out to expose the lives of unconventional New Yorkers who sleep in subways and live on their own terms. She meets Tom Bailey, a smooth-talking drifter who has created a network of resourceful outsiders, and becomes intrigued by his charm and philosophy. Angie’s investigation brings her into contact with a colorful cast, including Martha Vail, a struggling performer, and Charlie Smith, a dreamer with endless schemes. As Angie becomes more involved, her objectivity fades, and she finds herself questioning the boundaries between survival, independence, and love.