I Can Get it for You Wholesale.
I Can Get it for you Wholesale is a stage musical based on the Jerome Weidman book of the same name.
Cast[]
- Elliott Gould - Harry Bogen
- Marilyn Cooper - Ruthie Rivkin
- Lillian Roth - Mrs. Bogen
- Sheree North - Martha Mills
- Barbra Streisand - Miss Marmelstein
- Harold Lang - Teddy Asch
- Jack Kruschen - Maurice Pulvermacher
- Bambi Linn - Blanche Bushkin
- Ken LeRoy - Meyer Bushkin
- Steve Curry - Sheldon Bushkin
- William Reilly - Mario
- Barbara Monte - Mitzi
- Edward Verso - Eddie
- James Hickman - Tootsie Maltz
- Luba Lisa - Manette
- Wilma Curley - Gail
- Pat Turner - Miss Springer
Plot[]
Harry Bogen is an ambitious, unscrupulous young businessman in the 1930s New York City garment industry. He will stop at nothing to get to the top: he lies to his mother and his girlfriend, Ruthie Rivkin, who try to help him become a better person, but he embezzles company funds from Apex Modes and betrays his friends and partners. Harry leaves Ruthie to take up with Martha Mills, a dancer in Club Rio Rhumba, but when he loses his friends and goes bankrupt, his mother and Ruthie stand by him.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "I'm Not a Well Man" - Miss Marmelstein and Mr. Pulvermacher
- "The Way Things Are" - Harry Bogen
- "When Gemini Meets Capricorn" - Ruthie Rivkin and Harry Bogen
- "Momma, Momma, Momma" - Harry Bogen and Mrs. Bogen
- "The Sound of Money" - Harry Bogen, Martha Mills, Mitzi, Mario and Eddie
- "The Family Way" - Mrs. Bogen, Harry Bogen, Ruthie Rivkin, Teddy Asch, Blanche Bushkin and Meyer Bushkin
- "Too Soon" - Mrs. Bogen
- "Who Knows?" - Ruthie Rivkin
- "Have I Told You Lately?" - Blanche Bushkin and Meyer Bushkin
- "Ballad of the Garment Trade" - Miss Marmelstein, Ruthie Rivkin, Blanche Bushkin, Harry Bogen, Teddy Asch, Meyer Bushkin and Company
- Act II
- "A Gift Today" - Sheldon Bushkin, Harry Bogen, Mrs. Bogen, Blanche Bushkin, Meyer Bushkin and Ruthie Rivkin
- "Miss Marmelstein" - Miss Marmelstein
- "The Sound of Money" (Reprise) - Harry Bogen
- "A Funny Thing Happened" - Ruthie Rivkin and Harry Bogen
- "What's in It for Me?" - Teddy Asch and Martha Mills
- "What Are They Doing to Us Now?" - Miss Marmelstein, Buggo, Tootsie Maltz, Manette, Gail, Miss Springer and Creditors
- "Eat a Little Something" - Mrs. Bogen and Harry Bogen
- "Epilogue" - The Company