Skyscraper.
Skyscraper is a stage musical based on the Elmer Rice play Dream Girl.
Cast[]
- Julie Harris - Georgina
- Peter L. Marshall - Timothy Bushman
- Charles Nelson Reilly - Roger Summerhill
- Nancy Cushman - Mrs. Allerton
- Rex Everhart - Stanley
- Dick O'Neill - Herbert Bushman
- Lesley Stewart - Charlotte
Plot[]
The story is of Georgina, an antiques dealer who is determined to save her midtown Manhattan brownstone from the bulldozer. The girders of a new skyscraper are stalking her, and she has been offered $165,000 for her Rutherford B. Hayes-era building. When she can manage to stay on track, Georgina is bright in her thinking and staunch in her beliefs. But far too often she strays into a Walter Mitty-like dream world full of funny fantasies with her effete shop assistant.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "Occasional Flight of Fancy" - Georgina and Officials
- "Run For Your Life" - Timothy Bushman and Herbert Bushman
- "Local 403" - Stanley, Construction Workers and Girls
- "Opposites" - Georgina and Timothy Bushman
- "Run For Your Life" (Reprise) - Timothy Bushman
- "Just the Crust" - Roger Summerhill and Herbert Bushman
- "Everybody Has a Right to Be Wrong" - Georgina and Timothy Bushman
- "Everybody Has a Right to Be Wrong" (Reprise) - Georgina
- "Wrong!" - Georgina, Mrs. Allerton, Charlotte and Customers
- "The Auction" - Customers
- "Occasional Flight of Fancy" (Reprise) - Georgina
- Act II
- "The Gaiety" - Customers
- "More Than One Way" - Timothy Bushman and Construction Workers
- "Haute Couture" - Stanley, Models and Construction Workers
- "Don't Worry" - Roger Summerhill and Herbert Bushman
- "Don't Worry" (Reprise) - Georgina and Roger Summerhill
- "I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her" - Timothy Bushman
- "Spare That Building" - Georgina, Timothy Bushman, Roger Summerhill and Company