The Oddity:
The Hamburg Show 1965
Swarthmore College
The Hamburg Show 1965
Swarthmore College
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Contents
Act I
- Overture
- Scene 1: Ogygia - The Time of My Life (So Real)
- Scene 2: Aiolia (Bag of Winds) - Greetings
- Scene 3: The Lotus Eaters - So High
- Scene 4: Cyclops - The Army Always Gets You
- Scene 5: Circe - The Red Whiten Blues
- Scene 6: Hades - The Wars I Didn't Fight In
Act II
- Interludes - Rosie and the boys
- Scene 1: Thebes - Megala Pai
- Scene 2: Scylla and Charybdis - Better Wed Than Dead
- Scene 3: Helios - You're Here
- Scene 4: The Sirens - The Time of Your Life (Reprise), Staunch and Gray
- Scene 5: Ithaca - Penny's Song
- The Hamburg Show Song
Credits (partial; see record cover for a full listing)
- Produced and Directed by Alex Capron and Marge Garber
- Book and Lyrics by Alex Capron and Marge Garber with Paul Chalmer, Mike Ferber, and Steve Gessner
- Music written and conducted by Paul Chalmer
- With: Terry Livingston, Stephanie Brown, Tom Wolf, Sara Lawrence, Cindy Brown, Judy Lorick, and a host of others.
If this show were produced today, it might have been published under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use. As it is, the rights are unclear (to me). Proceed with caution. Somebody has the copyright, and some of us are lawyers by now.
--Martin Ewing '66
ewing /at\ alum.mit.edu
12/2007, rev 12/2009, 12/2016