Where's Charley? is a theatre musical with music & lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by George Abbott. The story was based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. An audio recording of the London production has been released, but no cast album of the Broadway production was ever made, due to a labor dispute that year.
The setting is Oxford University in the year 1892 where a group of college seniors are bidding farewell to the years gone by ...
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Where's Charley? is a theatre musical with music & lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by George Abbott. The story was based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. An audio recording of the London production has been released, but no cast album of the Broadway production was ever made, due to a labor dispute that year.
The setting is Oxford University in the year 1892 where a group of college seniors are bidding farewell to the years gone by ("The Years Before Us"). In his dorm room, graduating Jack Chesney is excitedly talking with his butler, Brassett, making sure that luncheon will be ready for later that afternoon. He is so excited because his roommate, Charley Wykeham, has gone to the train station to meet his aunt, Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez, who is coming in from Brazil for a visit. Having Charley's aunt there as chaperone will make it quite easy for their two girl friends, Kitty Verdun and Amy Spettigue, to come for a visit.
Charley does return - but without his aunt....
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