The Day Before Spring.
The Day Before Spring is a stage musical.
Cast[]
- Irene Manning - Katherine Townsend
- John Archer - Peter Townsend
- Bert Freed - Bill Tompkins
- Bill Johnson - Alex Maitland
- Patricia Marshall - Christopher Randolph
- Don Mayo - Joe McDonald
- Robert Field - Harry Scott
- Tom Helmore - Gerald Barker
- Paul Best - Voltaire
- Ralph Glover - Plato
- Hermann Leopoldi - Sigmund Freud
- Eleanore Treiber - First Girl
- Ronny Chetwood - First Boy
- Jack Miller - Second Boy
Plot[]
The plot concerns a married woman who, at a college reunion, meets the man with whom she almost eloped ten years before. Romantically stirred by a novel he has written about her, she considers leaving her husband and reuniting with her former flame.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "The Day Before Spring" - Katherine
- "The Invitation" - Bill
- "God's Green World" - Alex and Ensemble, Girl and Boys
- "You Haven't Changed at All" - Katherine and Alex
- "My Love Is a Married Man" - Christopher
- "The Day Before Spring" - Katherine and Alex
- "Katherine Receives Advice" - Freud, Plato, Voltaire
- "Finale" - Katherine and Ensemble
- Act Two
- "Friends to the End" - Bill, Joe, Harry, Gerald and Alumni
- "A Jug of Wine" - Christopher
- "I Love You This Morning (The Book)" - Katherine, Alex and ensemble
- "The Day Before Spring (The Book (reprise))" - Alex and Katherine
- "Where's My Wife?" - Peter and Ensemble
- "This Is My Holiday" - Katherine
- "Finale" - Principals and Company