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Shows are listed in chronological order along with the corresponding song lists and composers.

Come Out Singing

Lose That Long Face (from “A Star is Born,” Harold Arlen & Ira Gershwin)
Old Devil Moon (from “Finian’s Rainbow,” Yip Harburg & Burton Lane)
Why Shouldn’t I? (from “Jubilee,” Cole Porter)
Good Little Girls (from “Two’s Company,” Vernon Duke & Sammy Cahn)
Too Late Now (from “Royal Wedding,” Alan Jay Lerner & Burton Lane)
Sweet Danger (from “Kean,” Wright & Forrest)
Not Since Nineveh (from “Kismet,” Wright & Forrest and Borodin)
It Never Was You (from “Knickerbocker Holiday,” Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson)
You Go To My Head (Haven Gillespie & J. Fred Coots)
What More Do I Need? (from “Saturday Night”, Stephen Sondheim)
Almost (from “I Had a Ball,” Stan Freeman & Jack Lawrence)
I Wish It So (from “Juno,” Marc Blitzstein)
Anything Goes (from “Anything Goes,” Cole Porter)
Where Do I Go From Here? (cut from “Fiorello!,”  Bock & Harnick)
Isn’t It A Pity (from “Pardon My English,” George & Ira Gershwin)
If I Had You (Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell & Reginald Connelly)
Thanks A Lot But No Thanks (from “It’s Always Fair Weather,” Andre Previn and Comden & Green)
Why Can’t I? (from “Spring is Here,” Rodgers & Hart)
I Wish I Were in Love Again (from “Babes in Arms,” Rodgers & Hart; new lyrics by Michael Mascioli)
When The Tall Man Talks (from “Whoop-Up,” Moose Charlap & Norman Gimbel)
It Was Me (Gilbert Becaud & Norman Gimbel)
I’ll Plant My Own Tree / Valley Of The Dolls (from “Valley of the Dolls,” Dory & Andre Previn)
Clap Yo’ Hands (from “Oh, Kay!,” George & Ira Gershwin)
I Had A Ball (from “I Had a Ball,” Stan Freeman & Jack Lawrence)
You’re Nearer (from “Too Many Girls,” Rodgers & Hart)

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Mission: Dolores Gray

A Lot Livin’ To Do (from “Bye Bye Birdie,” Charles Strouse & Lee Adams)
Here’s What I’m Here For (from “A Star is Born,” Harold Arlen & Ira Gershwin)
So Far (from “Allegro,” Rodgers & Hammerstein)
I Go For That (from "St. Louis Blues," Frank Loesser & Matty Malneck)
I Wished On The Moon (Dorothy Parker & Ralph Rainger)
I Fought Every Step Of The Way (from “Top Banana,” Johnny Mercer)
They Say It’s Wonderful (from “Annie Get Your Gun,” Irving Berlin)
I’m Feelin’ Like A Million (from “Broadway Melody of 1938,” Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown)
Who Knows? (from “I Can Get it for You Wholesale,” Harold Rome)
Close As Pages In A Book (from “Up in Central Park,” Sigmund Romberg & Dorothy Fields)
I Travel Light (from “Lisa Kirk Sings at the Plaza,” Robert Wells & David Saxon)
Better Than Anything (David Wheat & William Loughborough; new lyrics by Michael Mascioli)
The Touch Of Your Lips (Ray Noble)
Cherry Pies Ought To Be You (from “Out of This World,” Cole Porter)
Fade Out, Fade In / You Mustn’t Be Discouraged (from “Fade Out, Fade In,” Jule Styne and Comden & Green)
When In Rome (Carolyn Leigh & Cy Coleman)
I Walk A Little Faster (Carolyn Leigh & Cy Coleman)
Something Cool (Billy Barnes)
Ev’ry Time (from “Best Foot Forward,” Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane)
I Hate Him (from “Destry Rides Again,” Harold Rome) / Music Is Better Than Words (from “It’s Always
Fair Weather,” Andre Previn and Comden & Green)
Here’s That Rainy Day (from “Carnival in Flanders,” Johnny Burke & James Van Heusen)
The Opposite Sex (from “The Opposite Sex,” Sammy Cahn & Nicholas Brodszky)
Friendship (from “DuBarry was a Lady,” Cole Porter) / Together Wherever We Go (from “Gypsy,”
       Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim)
How Lovely To Be A Woman (from “Bye Bye Birdie,” Charles Strouse & Lee Adams) / But Alive (from               “Applause,” Strouse & Adams)
Out Of This World (from the film “Out of this World,” Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer)
From This Moment On (cut from “Out of this World,” Cole Porter)
Some Other Time (from “On the Town,” Leonard Bernstein and Comden & Green)

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You're Soaking In It!

Lucky To Be Me (from “On the Town,” Leonard Bernstein and Comden & Green)
Today I Love Everybody (from “The Farmer Takes a Wife,” Harold Arlen & Dorothy Fields)
I Love Being Here With You (Peggy Lee & Bill Schluger)
Why Try To Change Me Now (Cy Coleman & Joseph A. McCarthy)
Frances Faye Tribute:  “The Man I Love” (George & Ira Gershwin) / “Lonesome Road” (Gene Austin
       & Nathaniel Shilkret)
My Love Is A Wanderer (Bart Howard)
Everybody Loves My Baby (Jack Palmer and Spencer Willson)
Charity’s Soliloquy (from “Sweet Charity,” Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields)
Love And The Weather (Irving Berlin)
Hostess With The Mostess (from “Call Me Madam,” Irving Berlin; new lyrics by Michael Mascioli)
How’dja Like To Love Me? (from “College Swing,” Frank Loesser & Burton Lane)
Empty, Empty Arms (from “Imitation of Life,” Arnold Hughes & Frederick Herbert)
You Better Sit Down Kids (Sonny Bono)
Somewhere That’s Green (from “Little Shop of Horrors,” Ashman & Menken)
I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out (Lou Carter, Herb Ellis & Johnny Frigo)
Friendly Star (from “Summer Stock,“ Harry Warren & Mack Gordon)
I Wish You Love (Charles Trenet & Albert Beach, new lyrics by Michael Mascioli)
Faraway Places (Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer)
I Like Men (from “Dangerous When Wet,” Johnny Mercer & Arthur Schwartz)
What A Man (from “The Roar of the Greasepaint…,” Bricusse & Newley)
Shirley Temple medley:  The Right Somebody To Love (from “Captain January,” Jack Yellen & Lew Pollack) /        We Should Be Together (from “Little Miss Broadway,” Walter Bullock & Harold Spina) / When I’m With        You (from “Poor Little Rich Girl,” Mack Gordon & Harry Revel)
Is That All There Is? (Lieber & Stoller; new lyrics by Bill Cooper)
On My Way To Love (from “I Can Get it for You Wholesale,” Harold Rome) / I’ve Got Everything I Want (from        “I Had a Ball,” Stan Freeman & Jack Lawrence)
Look To The Rainbow (from “Finian’s Rainbow,” Yip Harburg & Burton Lane)
There Will Never Be Another You (from “Iceland,” Harry Warren & Mack Gordon)

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My Summer of Love, Not Yours!

But Alive (from “Applause,” Charles Strouse & Lee Adams)
You’d Better Love Me (from “High Spirits,” Ralph Blane & Timothy Gray)
Rhymes Have I (from “Kismet,” Wright & Forrest and Borodin) / Exactly Like You (from “Lew Leslie’s                      International Revue,” Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh)
Steady, Steady (from “Bravo, Giovanni,” Ronny Graham & Milton Schafer)
Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Cahn, Chaplin, Holiner, Nichols, Freeman)
Here I Am (from “Henry, Sweet Henry,” Bob Merrill)
I’m Old Fashioned (from “You Were Never Lovelier,“ Jerome Kern & Johnny Mercer)
Nobody Else But Me (cut from “Showboat,” Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II)
Commuter Song (from “Small Wonder,” Baldwin Bergerson & Phyllis McGinley)
Thanks for Nothing (At All) (Gladstone & Rotella)
Thanks a Lot, But No Thanks! (from “It’s Always Fair Weather,” Andre Previn and Comden & Green)
No Strings (I’m Fancy Free) (from “Top Hat,” Irving Berlin)
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ (Lee Hazlewood)
I Never Know When (from “Goldilocks,” Leroy Anderson and Walter & Jean Kerr)
What A Man (from “The Roar of the Greasepaint…,” Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley)
How Little We Know (Carolyn Leigh & Phillip Springer)
Where Are You (from “Talk of the Town,” Harold Adamson & Jimmy McHugh)
That’s My Boy (from “The Milkman,” Ray Ellington & Barbara Tobias)
You Fascinate Me So (from “Julius Monk‘s Demi-Dozen,” Carolyn Leigh & Cy Coleman) / Without A Song               (Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu)
Killing Time (Carolyn Leigh & Jule Styne)
It’s Great To Be Alive (from “Guy Lombardo’s Arabian Nights,” Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb)
I Could Fall in Love (from “The Great American Backstage Musical,” Bill Solly)
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To (from “Something to Shout About,” Cole Porter)

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