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No Strings is a musical drama with book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers. No Strings is the only Broadway score for which Rodgers wrote both lyrics and music, and the first musical he composed after the death of his long-time collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical opened on Broadway in 1962 and ran for 580 performances. It received six Tony Award nominations, winning three, for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Best Original Score and Best Choreography.
SYNOPSIS
Fashion model Barbara Woodruff, living in Paris, meets and falls in love with expatriate American, David Jordan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who has suffered from an intense case of writer's block since his arrival in France. She attempts to restore his confidence in his creativity, but the easy life he's enjoying, flitting about Monte Carlo, Honfleur, Deauville, and St. Tropez, is too much of a distraction. Concluding that he can work only if he returns home to Maine, he invites her to go with him; but, realizing they have no future together, they part with "no strings" attached.
1962 Broadway
No Strings the Musical Songs with Lyrics
Act I
1. The Sweetest Sounds
2. How Sad
3. Loads of Love
4. The Man Who Has Everything
5. Be My Host
6. La La La
7. You Don't Tell Me
8. Love Makes the World Go
9. Nobody Told Me
Act II
1. Look No Further
2. Maine
3. An Orthodox Fool
4. Eager Beaver
5. No Strings
6. Maine (Reprise)
7. The Sweetest Sounds
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