BLOOMER GIRL
Composer: Harold
Arlen
Lyricist: E.Y. Harburg
Opened: October 5, 1944,
Sam S. Shubert Theatre, NYC
Performances: 657
Note: Only numbers not found on the CD reissue
of the original Broadway cast recording are noted below.
Civil War Ballet (inst.):
1. Special Occasions: Richard
Rodney Bennett Plays the Ballet Music of Cole Porter, Harold Arlen &
Richard Rodgers, DRG (S) 6012 (Richard Rodney Bennett, two pianos) [reissued as
CD?DRG 6102]
Overture:
1. Curtain Going Up, Columbia (S)
CS-8094 (orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel) [reissued as Another Openin',
Another Show: Broadway Overtures, CD/Sony Broadway SK 53540]
Promise Me Not To Love Me (registered by ASCAP in 1976;
replaced "Lullaby" in the 1981 revival):
1. Harold Arlen And Vernon Duke
Revisited Vol. II, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-127 (Blossom Dearie)
2. Harold
Arlen's Songs, CD/Audiophile ACD-168 (Richard Rodney Bennett, piano and
voice)
3. Life's A Dance: The Songs Of Harold Arlen, CD/Alyssum ALY-9562
(Del-Louise Moyer with Dean Williamson, piano)
Unrecorded Numbers:
Little Big Man (registered by
ASCAP in 1976)
Pretty As A Picture
Simon Legree
Style Show Ballet
(inst.)
'Till We All Belong (registered by ASCAP in 1976)
Waltz (inst.)