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70, Girls, 70.

70, Girls, 70 is a musical based on the play Breath of Spring by Peter Coke.

Cast[]

  • Hans Conried - Harry Hardwick
  • Mildred Natwick - Ida Dodd
  • Lillian Hayman - Melba
  • Joey Faye - Detective Callahan
  • Coley Worth - Officer Kowalski
  • Lucie Lancaster - Eunice Miller
  • Lillian Roth - Gert
  • Gil Lamb - Walter
  • Goldye Shaw - Fritzi
  • Tommy Breslin - Eddie
  • Dorothea Freitag - Lorraine
  • Henrietta Jacobson - Grandmother

Plot[]

A group of senior citizens living on New York's Upper West Side learn that the long-term hotel they live in will be sold off to developers - making the seniors homeless. To save the hotel, the seniors form a ring of unlikely thieves, wreaking havoc in stores from Sadies' Second Hand Furs to Bloomingdales. In the process, they regain their zest for life. The seniors proceed to use their ill-gotten gains to spruce up their digs and to provide safe harbor for other poor seniors.

Musical numbers[]

Act I
  • "Old Folks" - Ensemble
  • "Home" - Ida, Gert, Eunice, Gil, Harry, Melba and Fritzi
  • "Broadway, My Street" - Melba, Fritzi, Callahan and Ensemble
  • "The Caper" - Harry
  • "Coffee in a Cardboard Cup" - Melba and Fritzi
  • "You and I, Love" - Kowalski and Ensemble
  • "Do We?" - Eunice and Gil
  • "Hit It, Lorraine" - Ida, Harry, Gert, Eunice and Lorraine
  • "See the Light" - Gert, Callahan and Kowalski
Act II
  • "Boom Ditty Boom" - Harry, Gert, Walter, Melba, Eunice and Fritzi
  • "Believe" - Melba, Ida, Harry, Gert, Walter, Eunice and Fritzi
  • "Go Visit Your Grandmother" - Eddie and Grandmother
  • "70, Girls, 70" - Ensemble
  • "The Elephant Song" - Ida, Melba and Fritzi
  • "Yes" - Ida and Ensemble
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