1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

• Original Broadway Production (1976)
  New York, NY
• Indiana University Production (1992)
  Bloomington, IN
• Reading (1995)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Rehearse!
• If I Was a Dove
• On Ten Square Miles by the Potomac River
• Welcome Home Miz Adams
  • aka Welcome Home, Miz Adams [no note]
  • aka Welcome Home, Miz Johnson [reprise title]
• Take Care of This House
• The President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon Party March
  • aka The President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon March [Title in booklet for DG recording of A White House Cantata]
• Seena
• Sonatina (The British)
  • aka Sonatina [no note]
• Lud's Wedding: I Love My Wife
  • aka Lud's Wedding [no note]
• Auctions
• The Little White Lie
• We Must Have a Ball
• The Ball
• Forty Acres and a Mule
• Bright and Black
• Duet for One
  • aka The First Lady of the Land [no note]
• Proud
• The Robber-Baron Minstrel Parade
  • aka The Money-Lovin' Minstrel Parade [no note]
• Pity the Poor
• The Mark of a Man
  • aka Monroviad [no note]
• The Red, White and Blues
• Middle C
• This Time
  • aka This Time/That House [no note]
• Philadelphia
• Invitations
• Lud's Letter
• Keep Your Head Up, Mr. Lincoln
• When We Were Proud

Added to revised version

• It's My Country
• They've Started
• Another Kind of Man
• They've Done It
• Lud's Birthday Party
• Can You Love?

Cut prior to opening

• Uncle Tom
• The Grand Old Party
• American Dreaming
• To Make Us Proud
  • aka I Love This Land [no note]
• The Nation That Wasn't There
• The Free City
• Is You Me?
• They's Marching on Washington!
• Hail Garfield
• Hail Arthur

Not in program

• The Honor of Your Presence

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast: A White House Cantata (September 1998)
  

  • Thomas Hampson
  • June Anderson
  • Barbara Hendricks
  • Kenneth Tarver
  • Victor Acquah

• Demo Recording [audio]

Set against the corridors of the White House, the musical follows the shifting faces of American leadership—from its founding through the Civil War—framed by the simultaneous stories of the presidents and their upstairs lives, and the generations of servants downstairs. Through shifting eras, it tackles issues like slavery, impeachment, and personal betrayals. The narrative highlights the clash between ideals and realities across time, asking whether integrity and progress can ever truly coexist within national identity.

"The President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon Party March" contains part of the original dance music used in "Divertimento". A part was also used in Mass (1971), as part of "Prefatory Prayers." One section had been written for the prologue's marches in the musical version of Brecht's The Exception and the Rule, which was originally scheduled for production in 1969 but which never received a full production (although it was produced in 1987 as a workshop production at Lincoln Center with the title The Race to Urga).

"Tempo di Menuetto" includes an authentic harmonization of "To Anacreon in Heav'n" (1740). The melody for "To Anacreon in Heav'n" was later used for "The Star Spangled Banner."

"The Little White Lie" and "The Mark of a Man" were originally done together in the spot where "The Little White Lie" was ultimately listed. It was listed in tryout programs as simply "The Mark of a Man."

"The Nation That Wasn't There" was originally done just prior to "Welcome Home Miz Adams" in conjunction with a reprise of "On Ten Square Miles by the Potomac River." It was later reprised just before "Lud's Wedding" and after "The Ball."

• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: A Musical About the Problems of Housekeeping (alternate title)
• A White House Cantata (revised version)