If you get to The Pajama Game one minute after the curtain has gone up, you've missed the title song. And even if you're there, you might miss it. On the OBCR, from when Eddie Foy, Jr., starts to sing it till he gets to the end of it is 15-and-a-half seconds. And the Annie title song is pretty negligible. And moving to Martin Charnin's next show, the I Remember Mama title song comes in the first couple of minutes of the show and it's less than a minute long. I don't know what's in the licensed version now, but there wasn't actually a reprise at the end in the original production, even though the opening night playbill listed one.
And there's Brigadoon, in which the title song is sung offstage, mostly under dialogue, and even if you could hear it, the end is not sung in the first scene. It's not till the end last scene that all the words are sung, and again it's all sung offstage, mostly under dialogue, and until the last bars, it's sung quietly. |
