Welcome to the Club (musical)

Welcome to the Club
	Opening Night Broadway Playbill
Music	Cy Coleman
Lyrics	Cy Coleman ; A. E. Hotchner
Book	A. E. Hotchner
Productions	1989 Broadway

Welcome to the Club is a 1989 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cy Coleman. Despite its run of only twelve performances, it was nominated for two Tony Awards, and some other honors.

The musical, set in a New York City jail for alimony violators, opened on April 13, 1989 at the Music Box Theatre. The director of the production was Peter Mark Schifter.

Reviews were poor; the New York Times deemed it "embarrassingly out of touch with the present-day realities of men, women, sex, marriage and divorce", with limited praise given to Coleman's "inconsistent" score.[1] The musical closed nine days after its opening, on April 22nd, and was considered a flop.[2] However, the musical was nominated for two Tonys: Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Scott Wentworth) and Best Direction of a Musical (Schifter). In addition, actress Sally Mayes, in her Broadway debut, won a 1989 Theatre World award.

Songs

Act I

A Place Called Alimony Jail - Husbands and Wives
Pay the Lawyer - Husbands
Mrs. Meltzer Wants the Money Now! - Arlene Meltzer and Husbands
That's a Woman - Aaron Bates, Carol Bates and Wives
Piece of Cake - Eve Aiken and Bruce Aiken
Rio - Milton Meltzer, Arlene Meltzer, Wives and Gus Bottomly
Holidays - Arlene Meltzer
The Trouble with You - Aaron Bates, Carol Bates, Husbands and Wives
Mother-in-Law - Husbands
At My Side - Bruce Aiken and Kevin Bursteter

Act II

Southern Comfort - Winona Shook, Aaron Bates, Wives and Husbands
The Two of Us - Bruce Aiken and Milton Meltzer
It's Love! It's Love! - Gus Bottomly and Husbands
The Name of Love - Carol Bates
Miami Beach - Arlene Meltzer and Husbands
Guilty - Winona Shook
Love Behind Bars - Winona Shook, Aaron Bates and Wives
At My Side (Reprise) - Kevin Bursteter and Betty Bursteter
It Wouldn't Be You - Husbands and Wives

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
1989	Tony Award	Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Scott Wentworth	Nominated
	Tony Award	Best Direction of a Musical	Peter Mark Schifter	Nominated
	Theatre World Award		Sally Mayes	Won

Notes

Rich, Frank. Welcome to the Club: A Musical About Divorce. The New York Times. April 14, 1989. Retrieved December 12, 2006.
Hawtree, Christopher. Cy Coleman. The Guardian. November 22, 2004. Retrieved December 12, 2006.

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External links

Welcome to the Club at the Internet Broadway Database

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[1] Rich, Frank. Welcome to the Club: A Musical About Divorce. The New York Times. April 14, 1989. Retrieved December 12, 2006.

[2] Hawtree, Christopher. Cy Coleman. The Guardian. November 22, 2004. Retrieved December 12, 2006.