Juno.
Juno is a stage musical based on the play Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey.
Cast[]
- Shirley Booth - Juno Boyle
- Melvyn Douglas - "Captain" Jack Boyle
- Monte Amundsen - Mary Boyle
- Jack MacGowran - "Joxer" Daly
- Tommy Rall - Johnny Boyle
- Earl Hammond - Charlie Bentham
- Nancy Andrews - Mrs. Brady
- Loren Driscoll - Jerry Devine
- Jean Stapleton - Mrs. Madigan
- Sada Thompson - Mrs. Coyne
- Gemze de Lappe - Molly
- Rico Froehlich - Sullivan/Furniture Removal Man
- Beulah Garrick - Miss Quinn
- Arthur Rubin - Foley
- Julian Patrick - Paddy Coyne
- Robert Rue - Michael Brady
Plot[]
The Boyle family, "Captain" Jack, his wife Juno, their son Johnny and daughter Mary, live in the squalor of a two-room Dublin tenement in the twenties. Neither the "Captain", a drunken, malingering former seaman, nor Johnny, horribly wounded fighting for the IRA, do any work at all. This is left to Juno and Mary.
Their lives are considerably brightened up when Charles Bentham, a dapper young schoolmaster, brings news that the "Captain" has inherited a tidy sum. When Bentham sets out to court Mary, and the tenement is refurbished on credit, Juno believes that their fortunes have at last changed.
Unfortunately, the young Bentham is mainly interested in Mary's prospects, and so when he discovers an error in his own drafting of the will that was to have provided the inheritance, which will mean that the Boyle's are penniless, he flees to London leaving Mary pregnant. Her disgrace is quickly followed by the repossession of the furniture and then, disastrously, by Johnny's execution for betraying the Republican cause.
The "Captain" reacts to these reverses with his usual drunken self-pity, finally driving Juno to leave him behind as she and Mary leave Dublin to find a new life.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "We're Alive" – Ensemble
- "I Wish It So" – Mary Boyle
- "Song of the Ma" – Juno Boyle
- "We Can Be Proud" – Foley, Sullivan, Michael Brady and Paddy Coyne
- "Daarlin' Man" – "Captain" Jack Boyle, "Joxer" Daly and Ensemble
- "One Kind Word" – Jerry Devine
- "Old Sayin's" – Juno Boyle and "Captain" Jack Boyle
- "What Is The Stars" – "Captain" Jack Boyle and "Joxer" Daly
- "Old Sayin's" (Reprise) – Juno Boyle and "Captain" Jack Boyle
- "You Poor Thing" – Mrs. Madigan, Mrs. Brady, Mrs. Coyne and Miss Quinn
- "Dublin Night" – Johnny Boyle, Molly and Ensemble
- 'My True Heart" – Mary Boyle and Charlie Bentham
- "On a Day Like This" – Juno Boyle, "Captain" Jack Boyle and Ensemble
- Act II
- 'Bird Upon the Tree" – Juno Boyle and Mary Boyle
- "Music in the House" – "Captain" Jack Boyle and Ensemble
- "The Liffy Waltz" – Ensemble
- "Hymn" – I. R. A. Singer
- "Johnny" – Johnny Boyle and Molly
- "You Poor Thing" (Reprise) – Mrs. Madigan, Mrs. Brady, Mrs. Coyne and Miss Quinn
- "For Love – Mary Boyle
- "One Kind Word" (Reprise) – Jerry Devine
- "Where?" – Juno Boyle