Brownstone is a stage musical.
Cast[]
Original Broadway Cast[]
- Loni Ackerman - Claudia
- Ralph Bruneau - Stuart
- Kimberley Farr - Joan
- Maureen McGovern - Mary
- Lenny Wolpe - Howard
Off-Broadway Cast[]
- Liz Callaway - Claudia
- Rex Smith - Stuart
- Ben Harney - Howard
- Ernestine Jackson - Mary
- Kimberley Farr - Joan
Plot[]
Brownstone is a musical with characters including Claudia, a young lady getting over a breakup; Howard, a writer struggling with his current novel; his wife Mary, who desperately wants children; Joan, a big-time lawyer whose boyfriend lives in Maine; and Stuart, a bright-eyed youngster just excited to finally be in New York.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "Someone's Moving In" - Company
- "Fiction Writer" - Howard
- "I Just Want to Know" - Claudia
- "There She Goes" - Joan and Claudia
- "We Should Talk" - Mary and Howard
- "Camouflage" - Company
- "Thanks a Lot" - Joan, Stuart and Claudia
- "Neighbours Above, Neighbours Below" - Company
- "I Wasn't Home for Christmas" - Stuart
- "What Do People Do?" - Claudia
- "Not Today" - Joan and Company
- "The Water Through the Trees" - Joan and Stuart
- "You Still Don't Know" - Mary
- "Babies on the Brain" - Howard and Company
- "Almost There" - Company
- Act II
- "Don't Tell Me Everything" - Mary, Howard, Claudia and Stuart
- "One of Them" - Joan and Stuart
- "Spring Cleaning" - Claudia and Stuart
- "Fiction Writer Duet" - Howard and Mary
- "He Didn't Leave It Here" - Joan and Claudia
- "It Isn't the End of the World" - Mary and Howard
- "See That Lady There" - Stuart and Joan
- "Since You Stayed Here" - Claudia
- "We Came Along Too Late" - Joan, Stuart and Claudia
- "Hi There, Joan" - Company
- "It's a Funny Thing" - Joan and Stuart
- "It Isn't the End of the World" (reprise) - Howard
- "There She Goes" (reprise) - Joan and Claudia
- "Nevertheless" - Mary and Howard
- "Almost There" (reprise) - Stuart and Claudia
- "Someone's Moving Out" - Company