Sophie

• Original Broadway Production (1963)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Red Hot Mama
• Sunshine Face
• Mr. Henry Jones
• Sophie in New York
  • aka You'll Never Understand [no note]
• Patsy
• I'll Show Them All
• Hold On to Your Hats
• Fast Cars and Fightin' Women
• Queen of the Burlesque Wheel
• When You Carry Your Own Suitcase
• When I'm in Love
• Sailors of the Sea
• I Want the Kind of a Fella
• Who Are We Kidding?
• Don't Look Back
• I'd Know It
  • aka I'd Know It if I Were in Love [no note]
  • aka You'd Know It [no note]
• You've Got to Be a Lady
• Ragtime
• Waltz
• I Love You Today
• I've Got 'Em Standin' in Line
• They've Got a Lot to Learn

Cut prior to opening

• With You
• Sophie
• They Led Me to Believe
• Fight for the Man

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

• Compilation (not listed yet)
  

  • Libi Staiger
  • Steve Allen
  • Kathy Keegan
  • Linda Lavin
  • Mimi Roman

• Studio Demo (1963) [audio]

Tracing the early years of powerhouse performer Sophie Tucker, the musical follows her climb from modest beginnings to headlining stages, navigating prejudice, setbacks, and the demands of show business. Through comic patter, bold torch songs, and bustling ensemble scenes, it sketches the world of vaudeville and music halls, charting the compromises and triumphs that shape a career—and the wit and grit required to keep going.