Ambassador (musical)
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Ambassador is a musical with a book by Don Ettlinger and Anna Marie Barlow, lyrics by Hal Hackady, and music by Dan Gohman.
Based on the Henry James novel The Ambassadors, it explores the clash of cultures experienced by Lewis Lambert Strether when he journeys to 1906 Paris to find his fiancée's wayward son and bring him back to America to take his rightful place as heir to the family fortune. The strait-laced Strether's mission falls by the wayside when he finds the openness of the European lifestyle far more attractive than his stifling existence and comes to the realization the only rescue the young man requires is from the values of his manipulative mother.
After 12 previews, the Broadway production, directed by Stone Widney and choreographed by Joyce Trisler, opened on November 19, 1972 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it ran for 19 performances. The cast included Howard Keel, Michael J. Shannon, Danielle Darrieux, Andrea Marcovicci, and Nicholas Dante.
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Act I
- Lambert's Quandary
- Lilas
- I Know the Man
- The Right Time, the Right Place
- She Passed My Way
- Something More
- Love Finds the Lonely
- Surprise
- Happy Man
Act II
- Lilas, What Happened to Paris
- Young with Him
- Too Much to Forgive
- Why Do Women Have to Call It Love
- Mama
- That's What I Need Tonight
- Gossip
- Not Tomorrow
- All of My Life
- Thank You, No
