Too Marvelous for Words
A Musical Revue of the songs by Johnny Mercer

Too Marvelous for Words celebrates the songs of Johnny Mercer, one of America's most prolific writers of popular music. In a song-writing career that began in 1930 and spanned five decades, Johnny Mercer created the lyrics - and sometimes the music - to more than 1,000 popular songs, including the scores to six Broadway musicals and fifty Hollywood motion pictures, and earned himself nineteen Oscar nominations, four Oscar Awards and two Grammy Awards. Too Marvelous for Words features thirty Johnny Mercer songs, including such hit tunes as , Come Rain or Come Shine, Fools Rush In, Laura, Moon River, Satin Doll, Skylark, and Tangerine.

Performance Schedule

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The days in the calendar are color-coded:

White Plenty of seats are available
Yellow A popular performance, but seats are available
Red A very popular show, very few seats are available

Tickets are $15 per person, $12 for Students/Seniors.

Directed by Bill Condon, with musical direction by James Haupt, the cast of Too Marvelous for Words includes
Bill Condon
Jan Fuller
Chris Harris
Lorraine Hruska
Sal Luco
Linda Oroszko

Thanks to the Worcester Telegram for a kind review. (Opens new window)

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