Diamonds (musical)
Diamonds is a musical revue about baseball. The book and music were created by many writers, composers, and lyricists. Among them were Ellen Fitzhugh, Roy Blount, Jr., Alan Zweibel, and John Weidman ; and Larry Grossman, Comden and Green, Howard Ashman, Alan Menken, Kander and Ebb, and Cy Coleman, music.
The musical ran Off Broadway at the Circle in the Square Downtown theater, beginning on December 16, 1984, and closing on March 31, 1985, after 122 performances. The production was directed by Broadway veteran Harold Prince. The cast included Loni Ackerman, Susan Bigelow, Jackée Harry, Scott Holmes, Dick Latessa, Dwayne Markee, Wade Raley, Larry Riley, Nestor Serrano, Gordon Stanley and Chip Zien.
The musical won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Set Design, by Tony Straiges.
Songs
- Winter In New York
- In The Cards
- Favorite Sons
- Song for a Pinch Hitter
- Vendors
- What You'd Call a Dream
- Escorte-Moi
- He Threw Out The Ball
- Hundreds of Hats
- 1919
- Let's Play Ball
- Vendors #2
- The Boys of Summer
- Song for a Hunter College Graduate
- Stay in Your Own Back Yard
- Ka-Razy
- Diamonds Are Forever