Smile (1986)

Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Directed by Howard Ashman
Cast: Mana Allen, Jodi Benson, Anne Marie Bobby, Andrew Cassese, Veanne Cox, Tommy Daggett, Donna Marie Elio, Laura Gardner

The show opens with Dale Wilson Shears, chairman of the fictitious Young American Miss Foundation, explaining to the audience the qualities of an ideal Young American Miss. The contestants begin to enter and, throughout the course of the song, prepare for their journey to the pageant in Santa Rosa, waving goodbye as the number ends.

Theater

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre · Broadway

Closed

January 3, 1987