They're Playing Our Song

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

They're Playing Our Song (1979), a musical comedy by Neil Simon (book), Marvin Hamlisch (music), Carole Bayer Sager (lyrics). [Imperial Theatre, 1,082 perf.] Vernon Gersch ( Robert Klein), a successful composer, and Sonia Walsk ( Lucie Arnaz), an equally successful lyricist, are thrown together for a projected collaboration that turns into a bumpy romance. Notable songs: If He Really Knew Me; They're Playing Our Song; Just for Tonight. The musical carried Broadway's slimming process to an almost anorexic extreme with only two principals and a chorus of six who acted as the principals' alter egos. Even the score, of only nine songs (many regularly reprised) was smaller than customary. The popular show quickly dated and has all but disappeared.

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