PARADE (1935)
Composer: Jerome
Moross
Lyricists: Paul Peters and George Sklar
Opened:
May 20, 1935, Guild Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 40
Life Could Be So Beautiful:
1. Broadway Dreams, CD/Premier
PRCD 1016 (Helene Williams with Leonard Lehrman, piano)
2. The Broadway
Musicals Of 1935, CD/Bayview RNBW034 (Gretha Boston with the Ross Patterson
Little Big Band)
Send For The Militia
(M/L: Marc Blitzstein):
1. A Blitzstein Cabaret,
CD/Premier PRCD 1005 (Helene Williams with Leonard Lehrman,
piano)
You Ain't So
Hot:
1. Broadway Dreams, CD/Premier
PRCD 1016 (Sheila Wormer with Leonard Lehrman, piano)
Unrecorded Material:
Bon Voyage (L: Kyle
Crichton)
Bourgeois Processional (The Policeman: I Love)
Boys In Blue
(added during the run)
Cockeyed Finale (unused)
College Daze (sketch by
Frank Gabrielson and David Lesan) (dropped during the run)
The Crisis
(sketch by Frank Gabrielson, David Lesan, and Michael Blankfort)
The Dead
Cow (sketch by Alan Baxter and Harold Johnsrud)
Decadence (Smart Set) (M:
Will Irwin)
Don't Tell Us You're Going (unused)
Fear In My Heart Flight
From The Soviet (sketch by Paul Peters, George Sklar, and Kyle Crichton)
The
Free Clinic (sketch by Frank Gabrielson and David Lesan)
Home Of The Brave
(sketch by Frank Gabrielson and David Lesan)
The Happy Family (sketch by
Frank Gabrielson and David Lesan)
Hot Dog (sketch by Paul Peters and George
Sklar)
I'm All Washed Up On Love (M: Kay Swift; L: Albert Silverman) (cut or
added during the run)
I'm An International Orphan
I'm Telling You, Louie
Join Our Ranks (added during the run)
The Last Jackass (sketch by Paul
Peters and George Sklar)
Letter To The President
Marry The Family (L:
Michael Blankfort)
Marry Me (unused)
My Feet Are Firmly Planted On The
Ground (L: Emanuel Eisenberg)
Newsboy Opening
Music/Ballet Scene
(unused)
No Time To Sing A Gay Song Now (unused)
On Parade (Finale)
(dropped during the run and replaced with "Join Our Ranks")
Our Store
(sketch by Turner Bullock)
Parade No. 2 (unused?)
The Plague (sketch by
Frank Gabrielson and David Lesan) (dropped during the run)
The Police
Station (sketch by Paul Peters and George Sklar)
Selling Sex (L: Kyle
Crichton) (dropped during the run)
Snow From Heaven (unused)
Specialty
Dance (dance)
Sugar Cane (dance)
The Tabloid Reds (sketch by Paul Peters
and George Sklar)
Wild Boys On The Road (unused)
Note: Some of the
unused material might be sketches rather than songs.