Evening Primrose (ABC Stage 67)

"**Evening Primrose**"
"Evening Primrose"
ABC Stage 67 episode
	Original television soundtrack recording
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 9
Directed by	Paul Bogart
Written by	James Goldman; John Collier
Story by	James Goldman
Produced by	John Houseman; Willard Levitas
Featured music	Stephen Sondheim
Editing by	John Wells
Original air date	November 16, 1966
Running time	60 minutes
Guest appearances
	Anthony Perkins as Charles Snell; Dorothy Stickney as Mrs. Monday; Larry Gates as Roscoe Potts; Charmian Carr as Ella Harkins; Margaret Bannerman as Store Person; Margaret Barker as Store Person; Leonard Elliott as The Judge; Michael Meola as The Guard; Dorothy Sands as Miss McLeish; Margaretta Warwick as Mrs. Bilbee;

"Evening Primrose" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American television series ABC Stage 67. The episode is a musical with a book by James Goldman and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim. It is based on a John Collier short story published in the 1951 collection Fancies and Goodnights.

Written originally for television, the musical focuses on a poet who takes refuge from the world by hiding out in a department store after closing. He meets a community of night people who live in the store and falls in love with a beautiful young girl named Ella. Bizarre complications arise when the leader of the group forbids their relationship.

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