Prettybelle

• Closed on the road (1971)
  Boston, MA

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Original score

• Prettybelle
• Policeman's Hymn
• To a Small Degree
• Back from the Great Beyond
• You Ain't Hurtin' Your Ole Lady None
• How Could I Know What Was Goin' On?
  • aka How Could I Know? [no note]
• I Never Did Imagine
• In the Japanese Gardens
• An Individual Thing
• The John Sweet Ballet
• I Met a Man
• God's Garden
• The No-Tell Motel
• When I'm Drunk I'm Beautiful
  • aka When I'm Drunk [no note]
• I'm Doin' Okay in My Own Way

Cut during tryout

• Picayumi Gazette
• Manic Depressives
• I'm in a Tree
• New Orleans Poon
• Give Me a Share in America

Cut before the first performance

• You Never Looked Better

• Demo Recording/Studio Cast [audio]

Based on the novel by Jean Arnold

Prettybelle Sweet is the alcoholic wife of a bigoted southern sheriff. After his death, she learns that he and his friends have been unjust to the local minority people. However, as Prettybelle attempts to make amends, she discovers that the people of the small town do not approve. She permits the minority men to rape her and she becomes involved with Mason, a liberal lawyer. As the townspeople riot, Mason betrays her and she retreats to an asylum.