Bloomer Girl.
Bloomer Girl is a stage musical.
Cast[]
- Celeste Holm - Evelina Applegate
- Joan McCracken - Daisy
- David Brooks - Jeff Calhoun
- Dooley Wilson - Pompey
- Mabel Taliaferro - Serena
- Pamela Randell - Octavia Applegate
- Claudia Jordan - Lydia Applegate
- Toni Hart - Julia Applegate
- Carol MacFarlane - Phoebe Applegate
- William Bender - Herman Brasher
- Matt Briggs - Horatio
- Hubert Dilworth - Augustus
- Nancy Douglass - Delia
- Joseph Florestano - Second Deputy
- Dan Gallagher - Hiram Crump
- Richard Huey - Alexander
- Robert Lyon - Joshua Dingle
- Joe E. Marks - Ebenezer Mimms
- Vaughn Trinnier - Wilfred Thrush
Plot[]
The plot concerns independent Evelina Applegate, a hoop skirt manufacturer's daughter who defies her father by rejecting hoopskirts and embracing comfortable bloomers advocated by her aunt "Dolly" Bloomer. The American Civil War is looming, and abolitionist Evelina refuses to marry suitor Jeff Calhoun until he frees his slave, Pompey.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "When the Boys Come Home" - Serena, Octavia, Lydia, Julia, Phoebe and Delia
- "Evelina" - Jeff Calhoun and Evelina
- "Welcome Hinges" - Serena, Horatio, Lydia, Julia, Phoebe, Delia, Joshua Dingle, Herman Brasher, Ebenezer Mimms, Wilfred Thrush, Hiram Crump, Evalina and Jeff Calhoun
- "Farmer's Daughter" - Joshua Dingle, Herman Brasher, Ebenezer Mimms, Wilfred Thrush and Hiram Crump
- "It Was Good Enough for Grandma" - Evelina and the Bloomer Girls
- "The Eagle and Me" - Pompey
- "Right As the Rain" - Jeff Calhoun and Evelina
- "T'Morra', T'Morra'" - Daisy
- "Rakish Young Man With the Whiskers" - Evelina and Jeff Calhoun
- "Pretty As a Picture" - Male Ensemble
- Act II
- "Sunday in Cicero Falls" - Full Company
- "I Got a Song" - Alexander, Augustus and Pompey
- "Lullaby" - Evelina
- "Simon Legree" - Second Deputy
- "Liza Crossing the Ice" - Ensemble
- "I Never Was Born" - Daisy
- "Man For Sale" - Soloist
- "The Eagle and Me" (Reprise) - Ensemble
- "When the Boys Come Home" (Reprise) - Entire Company