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 |
Act 1
| 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.
