Gantry.
Gantry is a stage musical based on the 1927 novel Elmer Gantry.
Cast[]
- Robert Shaw - Elmer Gantry
- Thomas Batten - Bill Morgan
- Bob Gorman - Trosper
- Gloria Hodes - Adelberta Shoup
- Zale Kessler - Prout
- Rita Moreno - Sharon Falconer
- David Sabin - Gunch
- Ted Thurston - George F. Babbitt
Plot[]
Based on the 1927 novel Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis, it tells the story of a womanizing, self-righteous, self-proclaimed preacher who joins forces with a female evangelist to sell religion to small-town America.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "Wave a Hand" - Tom and Revival Troupe
- "He Was There" - Gantry, Troupe and Townspeople
- "Play Ball with the Lord" - Gantry, Troupe and Townspeople
- "Katie Jonas" - Sharon
- "Thanks, Sweet Jesus!" - Gantry and Townspeople
- "Someone I've Already Found" - Gantry
- "He's Never Too Busy" - Sharon, Gantry, Bill, Adelberta and Revival Troupe
- "We're Sharin' Sharon" - Gantry
- Act II
- "We Can All Give Love" - Sharon, Adelberta and Townspeople
- "Foresight" - Babbitt, Gunch, Trosper and Prout
- "These Four Walls" - Sharon
- "Show Him the Way" - Gantry and Townspeople
- "The Promise of What I Could Be" - Gantry
- "Gantry's Reaction" - Gantry
- "We're Sharin' Sharon" (Reprise) - Gantry