My Favorite Year

My Favorite Year is a stage musical.

Cast[]

Evan Pappas - Benjy Stone
Tim Curry - Alan Swann
Andrea Martin - Alice Miller
Lannyl Stephens - K.C. Downing
Tom Mardirosian - King Kaiser
Lainie Kazan - Belle Steinberg Carroca
Josh Mostel - Sy Benson
Ethan Phillips - Herb Lee
Paul Stolarsky - Leo Silver
David Lipman - Uncle Morty/Ensemble
Thomas Ikeda - Rookie Carroca
Mary Stout - Aunt Sadie/Ensemble

Plot[]

In the 1950s Benjy Stone, is a sketch writer for a live television variety show starring King Kaiser. Signed for a guest appearance is Alan Swann, a one-time movie idol whose career was disrupted by his addiction to alcohol and loose women. Benjy writes a sketch for Swann about a Musketeer and a princess being captured. The task of keeping him sober and celibate until airtime falls to Benjy, who soon finds himself involved in a sequence of shenanigans unlike any he ever experienced before.

Various characters, including Benjy's pushy mother Belle Steinberg Carroca and Alan Swann's estranged daughter Tess, complicate Benjy's task. The other writers, Sy, Alice and Herb, add to the chaos.

Musical numbers[]

Act I

"Twenty Million People" - Benjy Stone and Company
"Larger Than Life" - Benjy Stone
"The Musketeer Sketch" - Benjy Stone, Sy Benson, King Kaiser, Alice Miller, K. C. Downing, Leo Silver and Herb Lee
"Waldorf Suite" - Benjy Stone
"Rookie in the Ring" - Belle Steinberg Carroca
"Manhattan" - Alan Swann, Benjy Stone and Ensemble
"Naked in Bethesda Fountain" - Sy Benson, Alice Miller, Leo Silver, Herb Lee and K. C. Downing
"The Gospel According to the King" - King Kaiser, Alan Swann and Company
"The Musketeer Sketch Rehearsal" - Benjy Stone, Alan Swann and Ensemble
"Funny/The Duck Joke" - K.C. Downing and Alice Miller
"The Musketeer Sketch Rehearsal (Part II)" - King Kaiser, Alan Swann and Ensemble
"Welcome to Brooklyn" - Uncle Morty, Rookie Carroca, Belle Steinberg Carroca, Aunt Sadie, Benjy Stone, Alan Swann and Neighbors
"If the World Were Like the Movies" - Alan Swann

Act II

"Exits" - Alan Swann
"Shut Up and Dance" - K. C. Downing and Benjy Stone
"Professional Showbizness Comedy" - Alice Miller, King Kaiser and Ensemble
"The Lights Come Up" - Alan Swann and Benjy Stone
"Maxford House" - Maxford House Girls
"The Musketeer Sketch Finale" - Company
"My Favorite Year" - Benjy Stone and Company