MINSKY'S
(aka "The Night They Raided Minsky's")
Composer: Charles
Strouse
Lyricist: Susan Birkenhead
Opened: January 21,
2009, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Performances:
Unknown
Note: An earlier version of this show, entitled THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY's, had been announced for a tryout at the Ahmanson Theatre in the summer of 2000 but was cancelled when the director passed away in 1999. MINKSY's employed a different book and a substantially different score than THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY's. Neither show employed any of the songs that Charles Strouse and Lee Adams wrote for the movie THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY's.
Could'A Been Worse (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett
with unidentified male performers)
Every
Minute Of The Day (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett and
unidentified female performer)
Every Number
Needs A Button (written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S and used in
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett,
Debbie Gravitte, Marin Mazzie, Christiane Noll, and other unidentified
performers)
Eyes Like That (written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S and used in MINKSY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett and
unidentified female performer)
2. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett and
unidentified female performer) (reprise)
Gay Paree (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINKSY'S):
1. Studio Demo (unidentified
female performer)
Happy Birthday (cut;
written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (unidentified
male performer)
Home (written for THE NIGHT
THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S and used in MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett,
Debbie Gravitte, Marin Mazzie, and Christiane Noll)
2. The Musicality Of
Strouse, CD/JAY CDJAZ 9014 (Karen Ziemba with Christiane Noll and with the
National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Craig Barna)
I Could Get Used To This (with "Follow The Music") (cut;
written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett and
unidentified female performers)
I Must Have
Been Crazy (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Debbie
Gravitte)
It's Burlesque (cut; written for
THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Debbie Gravitee,
Marin Mazzie, and Chrisitiane Noll)
Just
What I Need (cut; written for The NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett and
Debbie Gravitte)
The Night They Raided Minsky's (with "At Minky's)
(cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett,
Debbie Gravitee, Marin Mazzie, Chrisitiane Noll, and unidentified
performers)
Poor Cleopatra (Queen Of The
Nile) (written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S and used in
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Debbie Gravitte,
Marin Mazzie, and Christiane Noll)
Smile
For The Camera (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINKSY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett,
Debbie Gravitte, Marin Mazzie, and Christiane Noll)
Sweet Revenge (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (unidentified
performers)
That Ain't How To Treat A Lady
(cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINKSY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett,
Debbie Gravitte, Marin Mazzie, Christiane Noll, and other unidentified
performers)
Think Again (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (unidentified
performers)
Think Lunch (Anything Can
Happen Over Lunch) (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (unidentified
performers)
A Work Of Art (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett and
unidentified performers)
Workin' Hot
(written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S and used in
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett,
Debbie Gravitte, Marin Mazzie, and Christiane Noll)
2. Studio Demo (unknown
performer) (Brent Barrett)
3. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett, Debbie Gravitte,
Marin Mazzie, and Christiane Noll) (second reprise)
The
Wrong Girl (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S):
1. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett and
Debbie Gravitte)
2. Studio Demo (Brent Barrett)
Unrecorded Material:
Bananas(written for
MINSKY'S)
Burlesque At The Deli (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINKSY'S) (possibly an early version of "Think Lunch")
Cockney (Piccadilly
Lil) (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINKSY'S)
Dracula (cut;
written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINKSY'S)
Fraction Of An Inch (cut;
written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINKSY'S)
God Bless The U.S.A. (written
for MINSKY'S)
Happy (written for MINKSY'S)
I Want A Life (written for
MINSKY'S)
It's Happening Here (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S)
I've Got Better Things To Do (written for MINSKY'S)
Joan Of
Arc (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S)
Keep It Clean
(written for MINKSY'S)
Let's Kiss (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINKSY'S)
A New Kind Of Broadway (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED
MINSKY'S)
Nothing Lasts Forever (written for MINSKY'S)
Opening Night
(cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S)
A Perfect Lady (cut;
written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S)
Red Hot Lobsters (written for
MINSKY'S)
Someone (written for MINKSY'S)
Tap Happy (written for
MINKSY'S)
Two Great Minds (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINKSY'S)
2X A Loser (cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINKSY'S)
Words
(cut; written for THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINKSY'S)
You Gotta Get Up
When You're Down (written for MINSKY'S)