Joey Brooks

Pal Joey (musical) Pal Joey (musical) 1940 Rodgers & Hart musical, atypically featuring an antihero as its protagonist This article is about the stage musical. For the film adaptation starring Frank Sinatra, see Pal Joey (film). Pal Joey is a 1940 musical with a book by John O'Hara and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The musical is based on a character and situations O'Hara created in a series of short stories published in The New Yorker, which he later published in novel form. The title character, Joey Evans, is a manipulative small-time nightclub performer whose ambitions lead him into an affair with the wealthy, middle-aged and married Vera Simpson. It includes two songs that have become…

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