America Kicks Up Its Heels
America Kicks Up Its Heels opened March 3, 1983 at Playwrights
Horizons. It takes place in new York City in the present and in a 1930's
soup kitchen.
Boris
Dick Latessa
Cleo (his daughter)
Patti LuPone
Polly (a businessman)
I.M. Hobson
Thyra (Polly's daughter)
Robin Boudreau
Hennie (a radical)
Lenora Nemetz
Zoe (the socialite)
Alexandra Korey
Julie (a loser)
Robert Dorfman
Harlen (Bou of tha kitehan)
Rodney Hudson
Eleanor (Mrs. Roosevelt)
Peggy Hewett
All Of Us Are Niggers
Everybody
Put It Together
Boris and Cleo
Eleanor Roosevelt (A Discussion of Soup)
Eleanor, Harlan, and Everybody
A Better World
Hennie, Boris, Cleo and Thyra
Cutting Hair (a recitative)
Everybody
Red Faces at the Kremlin
Polly and Everybody
America, Kick Up Your Heels
Cleo
Papa, You Won
Cleo, Boris and Everybody
Daddy and Me
Thyra and Cleo
Push and Pull (a recitative)
Boris and Harlan
All Fall Down
Zoe
The Depression Is Over
Boris and Everybody
Act 2
I Don't Want to Be Fired Again
Cleo and Everybody
Happiest Moment in My Life
Boris and Everybody
Pull It Together (a response)
Eleanor, Cleo and Everybody
Nobody's Ever Gonn Step on Me
Hennie
Why
Eleanor and Polly, Hennie, Julie and Everybody
It Was Fun
Thyra, Boris and Cleo
America, Kick Up Your Heels (a choral arrangement)
Julie, Hennie, Harlan, Eleanor, Polly, Zoe, Thyra and Boris
My Day Has Come
Cleo
Papa Says
Boris, Cleo, and Thyra
All of Us Are Brothers
Everybody
Thanks to Jesse M. Ragan for providing information about this show.
