TOUCH AND GO
Composer: Jay
Gorney
Lyricists: Jean and Walter Kerr
Opened: October
13, 1949, Broadhurst Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 176
Note: A live performance recording of the "Gorilla Girl" sketch performed at Encore's STAIRWAY TO PARADISE concert in 2007 is known to exist. A video of Nancy Andrews singing "Miss Platt Selects Mate" on the Ed Sullivan Show also exists.
This
Had Better Be Love:
1. Make Mine Manhattan &
Great Revues Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-119 (Nancy Andrews and Arthur
Siegel)
2. The Broadway Musicals of 1949, CD/Bayview RNBW035 (Cady Huffman
and Robert Westenberg with musical direction by Ross Patterson)
Miss Platt Selects
Mate:
1. Make Mine Manhattan &
Great Revues Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-119 (Nancy Andrews)
It
Will Be Alright (In A Hundred Years):
1. The Broadway Musicals of 1949, CD/Bayview RNBW035 (Scott Coulter with musical direction by Ross Patterson)
Wish
Me Luck:
1. 78/London 654 (Joyce
Indig)
Other Material:
American Primitive (Funny
Little Old World)
Be A Mess
Broadway Love Song
Cinderella (sketch by
Jean and Walter Kerr)
Detective Specs ("Radio Mystery Ballet") (conceived by
Helen Tamiris) (cut)
Disenchanted (sketch by Jean and Walter Kerr)
Easy
Does It (conceived by Helen Tamiris) (sketch by Jean and Walter Kerr
)
Gorilla Girl (sketch by Jean and Walter Kerr)
Great Dane A-Comin'
(sketch by Jean and Walter Kerr)
Highbrow, Lowbrow
Men Of The
Water-Mark
Mr. Brown, Miss Dupree
An Opening For Everybody
Under The
Sleeping Volcano
What Is Was Really Like (sketch by Jean and Walter
Kerr)