13. Gwen Verdon played her on Broadway. Shirley McClain played her on film. Which unconventional heroine of a '60s musical was "Where Am I Going?", included on Dionne Warwick's "Promises, Promises" album, written for?
From Quiz Promises, Promises
Answer:
Charity
"Sweet Charity" was written by CY Coleman and Dorothy Fields with book by Neil Simon. It tells the story of Charity Hope Valentine, a taxi dancer at the Fandango Ballroom in New York City, who finds and eventually loses the man of her dreams. Dionne sings "Where Am I Going?" in a plaintive, almost bewildered way that is very touching.
Jerry Herman wrote "Hello Dolly." Carol Channing starred as the matchmaker, Dolly Levi, on Broadway while Barbara Streisand played her in the film adaptation.
Elizabeth is the female third of the love triangle in Allan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe's "Paint Your Wagon," which is set in Gold Rush era California. The show was on Broadway in 1951 with Marijane Maricle originating the roll of Elizabeth. The 1969 film adaptation, starring Jean Seberg as Elizabeth opposite Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, has a rather different storyline, in which Elizabeth is a Mormon woman who has two husbands.
The 1967 spoof of silent movies, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" starring the sparkling Julie Andrews as Millie Dumount, who discovers it's better to be a nice, old fashioned girl than a modern, intersperses period songs from the 1910s and 1920s with original songs by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. Not till some forty years after the release of the movie was it turned into a stage musical.