Tenderloin.
Tenderloin is a musical based on the Samuel Hopkins Adams novel of the same name.
Cast[]
- Maurice Evans - Reverend Brock
- Ron Husmann - Tommy Howatt
- Eileen Rodgers - Nita
- Lee Becker - Gertie
- Irene Kane - Jessica Havemeyer
- Wynne Miller - Laura Crosbie
- Christine Norden - Liz
- Lanier Davis - Martin
Plot[]
Reverend Brock, a single-minded 1890s social reformer works to sanitize the Tenderloin, a red-light neighborhood in western Manhattan. He is foiled by everyone associated with the district, including the corrupt politicians and police who are taking their cut from the earnings of the prostitutes who work the streets there.
Tommy Howatt, a writer for the local scandal sheet Tatler, infiltrates the minister's church and proceeds to play one side against the other, eventually framing Brock by revealing to the authorities his plan to raid the brothels, but ultimately saving him by siding with him at his trial. As a result, the Tenderloin is shut down and Brock, asked to resign from his church, heads for Detroit with the hope of succeeding there as well.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "Bless This Land" – Chorus
- "Little Old New York" – Nita, Gertie, Girls, All
- "Dr. Brock" – Brock
- "Artificial Flowers" – Tommy, Jessica, All
- "What's in it for You?" – Tommy, Brock
- "Reform" – Girls
- "Tommy, Tommy" – Laura
- "The Picture of Happiness" – Tommy, Margie, Chorus
- "My Miss Mary" – Company
- "Dear Friend" – Brock, Group
- "The Army of The Just" – Martin, Tommy, Brock, Men
- "How the Money Changes Hands" – Company
- Act II
- "Good Clean Fun" – Brock, Chorus
- "My Miss Mary" - Tommy, Laura and Ensemble
- "My Gentle Young Johnny" – Nita
- "The Trial" - Company
- "Reform" (Reprise) - Gertie, Margie, Liz and Company
- "Tommy, Tommy" (reprise) - Gertie and Tommy
- "Little Old New York" (reprise) - Company