The Story of a Rose

A musical reverie on The Great War conceived and performed by Melissa Errico

“Powerhouse Broadway performer Melissa Errico wants to change our view of World War One and has done so brilliantly with her own creation entitled The Story of A Rose: A Musical Reverie on the Great War.”

– BroadwayWorld

“The Story of A Rose promises to be her smartest, most resonant, and substantial palimpsest yet.”

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PART 1: WARTIME FOLLIES

PART 2: SOLDIERS LIVES

PART 3: REMEMBRANCE

There will be one intermission.

Special Guest/Doughboy: George Abud

Band:

Tedd Firth: Musical Director

Bruce Harris: Trumpet • David Finck: Bass • Mark McLean: Drums 

Aaron Heick: Reeds • Tallie Brunfelt: Violin • Peter Douskalis: Guitar 

Prologue:

Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag

George Henry Powel/Felix Powel © 1915

Wartime Follies Overture:

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin Big Easter Vaudeville Carnival, 1911

They Didn’t Believe Me

Jerome Kern/Herbert Reynolds The Girl from Utah, 1914

Goodbye Broadway, Hello France

Billy Baskette/Francis Reisner The Passing Show of 1917

When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France

Alfred Bryan/Cliff Hess/Edgar Leslie © 1918

Roses of Picardy

Frederic Weatherly/Haydn Wood © 1916

I’m Old Fashioned

Jerome Kern/Johnny Mercer You Were Never Lovelier, 1942

The Real American Folk Song

George Gershwin Ladies First, 1918

Funiculi, Funicula

Luigi Denza/Giuseppe Turco/Theodore Baker (English lyrics) © 1880

You’d Be Surprised

Irving Berlin Ziegfeld Follies of 1919

In the Beautiful Garden of Girls

Gene Buck/Raymond Hubbell Ziegfeld Follies of 1917

It’s a Long Way to Tipperary

Jack Judge/Harry Williams © 1912

I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier

Alfred Bryan/Al Piantidosi The Peerless Quartet, 1915

Let’s All Be Americans Now

Irving Berlin/Edgar Leslie/George W. Meyer The American Quartet, 1917

Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers*

Herman Darewski/RP Weston © 1914

Over There

George M. Cohan Columbia Records, 1917

Entr’acte:

Long, Long Trail A-Winding

Alonzo “Zo” Elliot © 1914

Castle Walk Rag

James Reese Europe © 1918

Can’t You Hear Your Country Calling**

Victor Herbert Ziegfeld Follies of 1917

Dear Little Boy of Mine

Ernest R. Ball/J. Keirn Brennan © 1918

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

Irving Berlin Yip, Yip, Yaphank, 1918

On Patrol in No-Man’s-Land

James Reese Europe Harlem Hellfighters, 1917

If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany

George Meyer/Grant Clarke/Howard E Rogers © 1918

Stay Down Here Where You Belong

Irving Berlin Victor Records, 1914

Letters of Reflection

Keep the Home Fires Burning

Ivor Novello/Lena Guilbert Ford © 1914

Send Love to Me Once In a While

Private David Keith Love letter sent home, 1918

My Buddy Walter

Donaldson/Gus Kahn © 1922

The Lads in Their Hundreds

George Butterworth/AE Houseman © 1911

How Ya Gonna Kep ’em Down On the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)

Walter Donaldson/Joe Young Sophie Tucker, 1919

The Last Rose of Summer

Thomas Moore/traditional © 1805 (commonly sung at war memorials)

Everyone Sang (lyrics from 1919 poem)

Siegried Sassoon/Tedd Firth The Story of a Rose, 2024

When the Ships Come Home

Jerome Kern/PG Wodehouse Oh Lady! Lady!, 1918

God Bless America

Irving Berlin Yip, Yip, Yaphank, 1918 (revised 1938)
*additional lyrics by Melissa Errico and Adam Gopnik **additional lyrics by Adam Gopnik

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