The show was the first reunion of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, long revered for their earlier collaborations, after their blockbuster, Fiddler on the Roof.
Their beautiful She Loves Me, an unashamed romantic musical comedy, paved the way to their immense success with Fiddler, but they returned to the comic and romantic with their musical comedy, accent on comedy, The Apple Tree.
The Apple Tree is a trilogy. With tongue in cheek, it explains to mere mortal man just how much he owes to the little woman. And in some cases how much he is dominated by her.
The book (Bock, Harnick, and Jerome Coopersmith) pulls no punches.
Poor old dim Adam is manipulated by the love of his life even to the point where he loses Eden; sad Captain Sanjar, wildly in love with Princess Barbara, has to face alone a choice to which his love denies him the answer; and finally with little Ella, the chimney sweep, he is brought face to face with true, no frills, love.
1. Eden Prelude
2. Here In Eden
3. Feelings
4. Eve
5. Friends
6. Apple Tree (Forbidden Fruit), The
7. Beautiful, Beautiful World
8. It's A Fish
9. Go To Sleep, Whatever You Are
10. What Makes Me Love Him? / Eden Postlude
11. Lady Or The Tiger? Prelude, The / I'll Tell You A Truth / Make Way
12. Forbidden Love
13. Apple Tree (Reprise), The
14. I've Got What You Want
15. Tiger, Tiger
16. Make Way (Reprise) / Which Door? / I'll Tell You A Truth (Reprise)
17. Passionella Prelude
18. Oh, To Be A Movie Star
19. Gorgeous
20. Who Is She?, (Who, Who, Who, Who)
21. I Know
22. Wealth
23. You Are Not Real
24. Passionella Postlude / Finale
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