Winthrop Paroo - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

Act I
  • "Rock Island" – Charlie Cowell and Traveling Salesmen
  • "Iowa Stubborn" – Townspeople of River City
  • "(Ya Got) Trouble" – Harold Hill and Townspeople
  • "Piano Lesson" – Marian Paroo, Mrs. Paroo and Amaryllis
  • "Goodnight, My Someone" – Marian
  • "Seventy-six Trombones" – Harold, Boys and Girls
  • "Sincere" – Quartet (Olin Britt, Oliver Hix, Ewart Dunlop, Jacey Squires)
  • "The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl" – Harold, Marcellus Washburn
  • "Pickalittle (Talk-a-Little)" – Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn, Maud Dunlop, Ethel Toffelmier, Alma Hix, Mrs. Squires and Ladies of River City
  • "Goodnight, Ladies" – Quartet
  • "Marian The Librarian" – Harold, Boys and Girls
  • "My White Knight" – Marian
  • "The Wells Fargo Wagon" – Winthrop Paroo, Townspeople
Act II
  • "It's You" – The Quartet, Eulalie, Maud, Ethel, Alma and Mrs. Squires
  • "Shipoopi" – Marcellus, Harold, Marian and townspeople
  • "Pickalittle (Talk-a-Little)" (reprise) – Eulalie, Maud, Ethel, Alma, Mrs. Squires and Ladies
  • "Lida Rose" – Quartet
  • "Will I Ever Tell You" – Marian
  • "Gary, Indiana" – Winthrop, Mrs. Paroo, Marian
  • "It's You" (reprise) – Townspeople, Boys and Girls
  • "Till There Was You" – Marian, Harold
  • "Seventy-six Trombones/Goodnight, My Someone" (reprise) – Harold and Marian
  • "Till There Was You" (reprise) – Harold
  • "Finale" – Company
Notes: "Lida Rose" and "Will I Ever Tell You", sung first separately and then simultaneously, are examples of Broadway counterpoint – songs with separate lyrics and separate melodies that harmonize and are designed to be sung together. Similarly, "Pick A Little" and "Good Night Ladies" are also sung first separately, and then in counterpoint. Willson's counterpoint, along with two counterpoint song pairs from Irving Berlin musicals, are lampooned in the 1959 musical Little Mary Sunshine, where three counterpoint songs are combined: "Playing Croquet," "Swinging" and "How Do You Do?"
"Goodnight, My Someone" is the same tune, in waltz time, as the march-tempo "Seventy-six Trombones".
In the 1962 movie, the 2000 revival, and some amateur and regional productions, "Gary, Indiana" is sung in Act I by Harold and Mrs. Paroo (between "Marian the Librarian" and "My White Knight"), with Winthrop singing a reprise of it in Act II.

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