Pal Joey The Musical (1940)

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart, Book by John O'Hara

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Plot Summary & Audition Tips

List of Characters in Pal Joey

Pal Joey 1957 Film Version on DVD

Pal Joey 1995 Original New York Cast Recording

Pal Joey 1950 Studio Cast Recording

Pal Joey 1980 London Cast Recording

Modern Jazz Performances Of Songs From Pal Joey

Pal Joey (1995 Original New York Cast Recording) - Download the Album Now! 

Based on a series of writings for The New Yorker by John O'Hara.

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Joey Evans (Baritone, early 30s)

A smooth-talking nightclub emcee with a reputation as a con-man and a skirt-chaser. Shows flashes of sensitive feelings.

Gladys Bumps (Mezzo/Alto)

A bored night club singer/dancer, with little in life to excite her. An old and scheming friend of Lowell's.

Linda English (Soprano)

Joey's naive girlfriend, both sensible and headstrong, innocent and vulnerable. She has a soft spot for Joey from the first moment.

Mrs. Vera Simpson (Soprano, 30s)

A former stripper who married into wealth. A world-weary thirty-something flirt who is bored with marriage and prefers dating younger men.

Melba Snyder (Alto)

A hack reporter from the Herald. Quick on the uptake and fast-talking. Anything-for-a-good-story type.

Ludlow Lowell

Gladys' boyfriend, a phoney agent. A ruthless crooked 'artist's representative', he will do anything to get a piece of someone else's money

Mike Spears

A stoutish man in his early forties, a regular club-manager type who tends to panic about empty houses.

Victor

Floor-show director. A hard man when things need to be organised.

Commissioner O'Brien

Commissioner of Police and an old friend of Vera's.

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List of Songs in Pal Joey (Click song title to download digital sheet music)

Pal Joey (1995 Original New York Cast Recording) - Download the Album Now! 

• You Musn't Kick It Around
• I Could Write A Book
• Chicago A Great Big Town
• That terrific rainbow
• What is a man
• Happy hunting horn
• Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered (Vera)
• Pal Joey
• Flower garden in my heart
• Zip 
• Plant you now, dig you later
• In Our Little Den of Inequity (Vera & Joey)
• Do it the hard way 
• Take him