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The Golden Apple
Opened 1954
173 performances
Musical, Golden Age
Using Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad as models, Jerome Moross and John Latouche updated the epics to the period between 1900 and 1910 and relocated the action in the state of Washington. With spoken dialogue cut to a minimum, the story is told through a steady stream of musical numbers (including the popular hit, “Lazy Afternoon”) and relates the consternation caused in the town of Angel’s Roost (near Mt. Olympus) when a salesman named Paris (Jonathan Lucas) flies in in a balloon and abducts old Menelaus’ always-willing wife, Helen (Kaye Ballard).
- Music
- Jerome Moross
- Lyrics
- John Latouche
- Book
- John Latouche
Productions1 productions: 1 elsewhere
Songs27 songs
My Love Is on the Way, It’s the Going Home Together, Helen Is Always Willing, Lazy Afternoon, Windflowers, Nothing Ever Happens in Angel’s Roost, Mother Hare’s Séance, The Heroes Come Home, It Was a Good Adventure, Come Along, Boys, Mother Hare’s Prophecy, The Church Social, Introducin’ Mr. Paris, The Judgment of Paris, The Departure for Rhododendron, My Picture in the Papers, The Taking of Rhododendron, Hector’s Song, Store-Bought Suit, Calypso, Scylla and Charybdis, Goona-Goona, Doomed, Doomed, Doomed, Circe, Circe, Ulysses’ Soliloquy, The Sewing Bee, The Tirade
Recordings 2 recordings
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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