Songs Themes
CAFE CINDERELLA - Ensemble
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Brief 'setting the stall'.
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LADY SADIE AND SAILOR JOE - Josie
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Feel-good intro song, with darker tones. Josie describes her East End home and expresses frustration about her saucy mother's affair with lodger-lover Steve. She concludes in a wistful tone, missing her father, Sailor Joe.
THRILL OF THE NIGHT - Dave Dino Band, and ensemble
West End themed dance number. A celebration of the night life, while introducing Josie's future love interests - Dave as guitar playing policeman, and Dino as larky singer. Also introducing Sailor Joe and Dino's dodgy Grit Street Gang.
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(ARE YOU GONNA CATCH) SAILOR JOE – Sid & Vic
Docks. Childrens' chants bookend this ominous bluesy comment by buskers Sid and Vic, speculating on Sailor Joe’s grim future. He's accidentally killed Josie’s mother in a crime of passion. He’s on the run. Surely he’ll have escaped on a steamer, to avoid the hangman’s rope.
RAGGEDY BLUE - Josie
Poignant ballad. Josie reflects on her family tragedy, and on being abandoned. She’s devastated, bewildered. She wonders how she’ll cope.
BOUNCE BACK – Smoochy and Grace
Amid reminiscences, a music-hall number intended to cheer Josie.
TRULY - Josie
Bitter-sweet. Josie has found sanctuary. Now she’s maybe hoping to find love. She’s full of trepidation. How can she trust anyone after witnessing just how dangerous passions can be. She's inately drawn to Dave, but he seems disinterested. Its safest to love only in dreams, inspired by her favourite pop records. Smoochy overhears her singing. Maybe she has something. Maybe she can figure in his showbiz plans. Josie is simply embarrassed.
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LET IT GO – Dave Dino Band
Band rehearsal. Josie is dismayed by the feuding between Dave and Dino. They respond with a confidence-boosting song. Elaborating on the simple aim of 'Bounce Back', it speculates on Josie's future. She's young, she must put the past behind. Let it go. Whatever she does, be the best she can. Clearly the guys are fond and protective of Josie, but no more than that. She's just a girl who's had a tough ordeal.
GLITTER GLAM ANGELINE – Dave Dino Band
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Dino and Dave sing tongue-in-cheek about saucy cinema usherette Angie. “She's a tease.” About her becoming a beauty queen and changing her name from Brenda to Angeline. Dave is dating her, much to Josie’s inner dismay.
To be added... CHARMER DEBONAIR – Smoochy & Grace
Showtime at the cafe for Dave's band. But no Dino yet, to sing. So Smoochy and Grace sing a novelty cabaret song. It's sung in the third-person but is clearly about Smoochy's adventurous and amorous entertainer life-style over the years.
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JUKEBOX CRAZY - Josie, Dave Dino Band
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Smoochy puts Josie on the spot to sing in public. She opts for a song that captures her love for pop music and jukeboxes. She can't help expressing herself.
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WHERE’S THAT BOY? – Josie, Dave Dino Band
Still no Dino. So Josie, newly confident, sings a boy-girl misunderstanding song. It plays on Dino’s unreliability by describing a girl waiting in vain for her cinema date. He's waiting at the wrong cinema. Dino finally arrives to sing with Josie. Her sheer thrill at performing in public, is upstaged by the dramatic entrance and exit of her father Sailor Joe, chased by the police.
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Act Two
FEELINGS AND FEARS - Josie
Josie is in pensive mood as she takes emotional stock. She needs to see her father again, and is convinced he meant no harm to her Mother. Just an awful accident, provoked by despicable Steve.
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HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN SAILOR JOE? - Sid & Vic
Docks. Is Sailor Joe still in hiding, while hoping for a chance to reconcile with Josie? Or has he escaped back to sea?
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WHAT TO DO? - Dino
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Josie and Dino have just formed an emotional bond, as kindred spirits with tragedy in their lives. Dino is confused by the romantic potential, with the need to give up his gang lifestyle.
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WHO WILL I LOVE? - Josie
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Josie is on a shopping spree, as thanks from Grace for fixing the jukebox, and as a morale boost. She buys new clothes and has her hair styled. She sings of hoping for true romance - the real thing. Not being put upon, and no fancy fling.
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To be added... GUNS AND KNIVES - Josie, Dave Dino Band
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Theme music and lyrics over a chase scene, where Dave rescues Josie (accidentally disguised as a mobster) from Chappie Cole's thugs.
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SECRET ANGEL - Dave
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Upbeat ballad. Dave realises he's falling in love with Josie - the real Josie, not the make-over version. He's been just too busy, and distracted by Angie. While Josie is only just regaining her confidence.
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ROCKET TO THE MOON - Josie, Dave Dino Band
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A novelty song about winning a trip to the Moon. Rehearsal for Saturday Pops TV show. Josie is lost in grief over the shock death of her father. But she snaps out of it when realising Smoochy is about to give up on the project, and leave Grace, to take up a booking in Lisbon.
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BOOBADIDI BOOM BOOM - Dave and Dino
Dave and Dino compete for Josie's affection in high energy song.
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SHE'S DOING VERY WELL, CONSIDERING - Josie, Dave Dino Band, and ensemble
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Police have waited to escort Dino to jail (a deal to allow him to perform), but he delays proceedings, launching into a feel-good closing number. Josie sings too, thanking all for their love and support, and wishing the best to the audience.
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