The Girl in Pink Tights

• Original Broadway Production (1954)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Ballet Class
• That Naughty Show from Gay Paree
• Lost in Loveliness
• I Promised Their Mothers
• Up in the Elevated Railway
• In Paris and in Love
• You've Got to Be a Little Crazy
• When I Am Free to Love
  • aka Free to Love [no note]
• Pas de Deux
• Out of the Way
  • aka Out of the Way! [no note]
• Roll Out the Hose, Boys
• My Heart Won't Say Goodbye
• We're All in the Same Boat
• Bacchanale
• Love Is the Funniest Thing
• The Cardinal's Guard Are We
• Grand Imperial Ballet
• Going to the Devil

Just after the Civil War in New York City, a melodrama conflates with ballet when a French troupe arrives to perform, threatening the livelihood of a melodrama producer across the street. He falls in love with the troupe’s ballerina, while her Maestro defends his dancers’ virtue despite their tight theatrical outfits. A budding romance blooms amid rehearsals, flirtations, and a daring ride on the new elevated railway that inspires thoughts of love in Paris. When the opera house catches fire during rehearsal, the producer heroically rescues the ballerina—only for the troupe to face bankruptcy. A bold entrepreneur proposes merging ballet and melodrama into a singular, new art form. Despite artistic clashes, love and creativity ultimately bring them together in a spectacular, revelatory finale.

The book for this musical is loosely based on the creation of the musical, THE BLACK CROOK, 1866.