Sweet Charity (1986)

Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Directed by Bob Fosse
Cast: Debbie Allen, Quinn Baird, Christine Colby, Alice Everett Cox, Kim Morgan Greene, Jan Horvath, Mark Jacoby, Jane Lanier

The young woman Charity Hope Valentine is a taxi dancer at a dance hall called the Fandango Ballroom in New York City. With a shoulder bag and a heart tattooed on her left shoulder, Charity meets her boyfriend Charlie in Central Park. While Charlie silently preens himself, Charity speaks the pick-up lines she imagines him saying, and tells him how handsome he is ("You Should See Yourself").

Theater

Minskoff Theatre · Broadway

Closed

March 15, 1987