Miss Liberty

Miss Liberty.

Miss Liberty is a stage musical based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty.

Cast

• Mary McCarty - Maisie Dell
• Allyn McLerie - Monique DuPont
• Eddie Albert - Horace Miller
• Charles Dingle - James Gordon Bennett
• Philip Bourneuf - Joseph Pulitzer
• Donald McClelland - The Mayor
• Tommy Rall - The Dandy

Plot

In 1885, New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett assigns novice reporter Horace Miller to find the woman who served as Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's model for the Statue of Liberty. In the artist's Paris studio, Miller sees a photograph of Monique DuPont and mistakenly believes she was the one. Bennett arranges for her and her grandmother to accompany Horace back to New York City, where she becomes a media darling.

When rival publisher Joseph Pulitzer discovers it was Bartholdi's mother who actually posed for him, he exposes Monique as a fraud in his New York World. She faces deportation until a sympathetic Pulitzer comes to her rescue, paving the way for her to plan a future with Horace, who jilts his American girlfriend Maisie Dell in favor of the French beauty.

Musical numbers

Act 1

• "Extra, Extra" - Newsboys and Ensemble
• "What Do I Have to Do to Get My Picture Took?" - Maisie Dell, Horace Miller, and Dancers
• "The Most Expensive Statue in the World" - Joseph Pulitzer, James Gordon Bennett, the Mayor, Singers, and Dancers
• "A Little Fish in a Big Pond" - Horace Miller, Maisie Dell, and the Sharks
• "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" - Horace Miller, Monique DuPont, Singers, and Dancers
• "Homework" - Maisie Dell
• "Paris Wakes Up and Smiles" - Monique DuPont and Ensemble
• "Only for Americans The Countess" - Horace Miller, Singers, and Dancers
• "Just One Way to Say I Love You" - Horace Miller and Monique DuPont

Act 2

• "Miss Liberty" - Entire Company
• "The Train" - Monique DuPont and the Train
• "You Can Have Him" - Maisie Dell and Monique DuPont
• "The Policeman's Ball" - Maisie Dell, the Dandy, and Ensemble
• "Homework" (Reprise) - Maisie Dell
• "Follow the Leader Jig" - Ensemble
• "Me and My Bundle" - Horace Miller, Monique DuPont, and Company
• "Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun" - Maisie Dell
• "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" - Monique DuPont and Singers