1) My Review of the Stage Musical -- General
2) My Review of the Stage Musical -- Race
3) My Review of the Stage Musical -- Romance
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The program given to the stage musical's audience listed the following songs. I have highlighted the songs that are not in the 1987 movie.
This Magic MomentI have not listed songs that the program says are incidental. When a song is sung more than once, I list only the major occasion.
Merengue
You Do Something to Me
You’re the Cream in My Coffee
There Will Never Be Another You
Johnny’s Mambo
Do You Love Me?
Love Man
Honey Love
Infectious Cha Cha
An Original Waltz/Penny’s Waltz
Viva Ia Quince Brigada
This Land Is Your Land
We Shall Overcome
Stubborn Kind of Fellow
Wipeout
Hungry Eyes
Overload
Hey! Baby
Johnny’s Tango
To the Sheldrake
De Todo Un Poco
Maybe
The Way Life Goes
These Arms of Mine
Cry to Me
[Intermission between Act One and Act Two]
Dawn Interlude
Blow the Man Down
Besame Mucho
Save the Last Dance for Me
If You Were the Only Girl
Magic Hour Serenade
Duke of Earl
Love is Strange
You Don't Own Me
Nunca
Lisa's Hula
Yes!
In the Still of the Night
Nocturando
Someone Like You
She's Like the Wind
Kellerman's Anthem
Time of My Life
The songs in the 1987 movie, along with their circumstances, are listed on that webpage.
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The following songs are in the 1987 movie but are not in the stage musical.
Be My Baby=====
Big Girls Don't Cry
Trot The Fox
Stay
Some Kind of Wonderful
Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
A remark in the program highlights two songs:
A number of songs Eleanor Bergstein tried very hard and unsuccessfully to obtain for the movie we have been able to obtain for our production and put in the places originally intended, including “Save the Last Dance for Me” (The Drifters) and “Stubborn Kind of Fellow” (Marvin Gaye).Since Bergstein tried to include these two songs in the 1987 movie, I will inform you about them here.
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I don't remember, from watching the stage musical, where exactly the song "Save the Last Dance for Me" was placed in the stage musical. However, it is early in Act Two, a few songs before "Love Is Strange".
The song's placement in the stage musical and the song's lyrics indicate to me that the 1987 movie was supposed to play the song during a dance in the hotel's ballroom on the night of Friday, August 30. Baby Houseman became sexual with Johnny Castle in his cabin for the first time during the night of Thursday-Friday. On Friday morning, her father said at breakfast that the family was departing a day early, but then changed his mind. During the rainy afternoon, Baby went back to Johnny's cabin to be sexual with him again.
Later that evening, there must have been a dance in the ballroom, where the song "Save the Last Dance for Me" was sung.
Still later that night, Baby and her sister Lisa talk in bed about Lisa's decision to "go all the way" with Robbie.
The song's lyrics:
You can dance every dance======
With the guy who gives you the eye --
Let him hold you tight.
You can smile every smile
For the man who held your hand
Beneath the pale moonlight
But don't forget who's taking you home,
And in whose arms you're gonna be.
So darling, save the last dance for me.
Oh, I know that the music's fine,
Like sparkling wine.
Go and have your fun.
Laugh and sing.
But while we're apart
Don't give your heart
To anyone
Baby, don't you know I love you so?
Can't you feel it when we touch?
I will never, never let you go
I love you, oh, so much
You can dance.
Go and carry on
Till the night is gone,
And it's time to go
If he asks
If you're all alone,
Can he take you home,
You must tell him no.
I don't remember exactly where the song "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" was placed in the stage musical. However, the program lists it right after "We Shall Overcome", which was sung at a party singing folk songs around a campfire by the lake.
At the end of that party, Baby gives the $250 to Penny Johnson, and then the decision is made that Baby will replace Penny at the Sheldrake Hotel. So, I think that Bergstein wanted the 1987 movie to play "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" as Baby was walking through the dancers to give the $250 to Penny.
(Click on the below video's image and then click on the words Watch this video on YouTube.)
The song'y lyrics:
I try to put my arms around you,Instead of "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", the 1987 movie in this scene plays the song "Stay".
All because I want to hold you tight,
But every time I reach for you, baby,
Trying to kiss you,
You're just jumping out of sight.
Oh, I've got news for you:
Baby, that I've made plans for two.
I guess I'm just a stubborn kind of fellow --
Got my mind made up to love you
I'm gonna love you in every way.
With other girls I've wanted,
I've made it just a moment.
With you I'll share each day.
Now I know you've heard about me,
Bad things about me,
Baby, please let me explain.
Oh, I have kissed a few.
I tell you,
A few have kissed me too.
The below video clip is from a movie biography of Marvin Gaye.
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I will continue my review of the stage musical in future posts.
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