Forever Plaid

Description

Forever Plaid is an Off-Broadway musical revue written by Stuart Ross – first performed in New York in 1989.

The show is a revue of the close-harmony “guy groups” (e.g. The Four Aces, The Four Freshmen) that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. Personifying the clean-cut genre are the Plaids. This quartet of high-school chums' dreams of recording an album ended in death in a collision with a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles' American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The revue begins with the Plaids returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory.

Contents:
• Catch a Falling Star (by Lee Pockriss; Paul J. Vance )
• Crazy 'Bout Ya Baby (by Pat Barrett; Rudi Maugeri )
• Cry (by Churchill Kohlman)
• Heart and Soul (by Frank Loesser; Hoagy Carmichael )
• Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (by Paul Francis Webster; Sammy Fain )
• Moments to Remember (by Al Stillman; Robert Allen )
• No Not Much (by Al Stillman; Robert Allen )
• Rags to Riches (by Richard Adler; Jerry Ross )
• Shangri-La (by Robert Maxwell; Carl Sigman; Matt Malneck )
• Sixteen Tons (by Merle Travis )
• Undecided (by Sid Robin; Charles Shavers )
• Three Coins in the Fountain (by Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)