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Dance a Little Closer is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Charles Strouse. The story is an updated version of Robert E. Sherwood's 1936 antiwar comedy Idiot's Delight.
PLOT
The musical is set on New Year's Eve "in the avoidable future" in the grand Alpine Barclay Palace Hotel, where the guests find themselves in the midst of a potential nuclear Armageddon. The characters are American singer Harry Aikens and Cynthia Brookfield-Bailey, who may have had a romantic fling years earlier. Among the others present are Cynthia's current paramour, Henry Kissinger-like diplomat Dr. Josef Winkler, a gay couple, a minister, and a freedom fighter.
1983 Broadway
Dance a Little Closer the Musical Lyrics
Act I
1. It Never Would've Worked
2. Happy, Happy New Year
3. No Man Is Worth It
4. What Are You Going to Do About It?
5. A Woman Who Thinks I'm Wonderful
6. Pas de Deux
7. There's Never Been Anything Like Us
8. Another Life
9. Why Can't the World Go and Leave Us Alone?
10. He Always Comes Home to Me
11. I Got a New Girl
12. Dance a Little Closer
13. There's Always One You Can't Forget
Act II
1. Homesick
2. Mad
3. I Don't Know
4. Auf Wiedersehen
5. I Never Want to See You Again
6. On Top of the World
7. I Got a New Girl (Reprise)
8. Dance a Little Closer (Reprise)
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