La Guardia" has La Guardia campaigning in English, Italian and Yiddish. There is also a ragtime number, "Gentleman Jimmy" about bon vivant mayor James J. "Jimmy" Walker, and the comic "Marie's Law", in which Marie proposes a "law" about how husbands should treat their wives. ("Every girl shall have a honeymoon, which will last at least a year,/ During which aforesaid honeymoon, every care shall disappear…".) Besides the invention of some peripheral characters, the musical changes some basic facts of La Guardia's life. La Guardia's first wife, Thea, died after only three years of marriage, but the fictional Thea lives another eight years, so that her death can be one more calamity during La Guardia's unsuccessful 1929 mayoral campaign; also, the script downplays La Guardia's generally successful congressional career to make him seem more of an outsider and increase the triumph of his eventual mayoral victory in 1933. Songs Act I "On the Side of the Angels" – Neil, Morris, and Dora "Politics and Poker" – Ben, Politicians "Unfair" – Fiorello, Dora, and Girls "Marie's Law" – Marie and Morris "The Name's La Guardia" – Fiorello and Company "The Bum Won" – Ben, Politicians "I Love a Cop" – Dora "I Love a Cop" (reprise) – Dora and Floyd "Till Tomorrow" – Thea and Company "Home Again" – Company Act II "When Did I Fall in Love" – Thea "Gentleman Jimmy" – Mitzi and Dancing Girls "Gentleman Jimmy" (reprise) – Company "Little Tin Box" – Ben, Politicians "The Very Next Man" – Marie "The Very Next Man" (reprise) – Marie "Finale" – Company An additional song, "Where Do I Go from Here?" (originally written for Marie to sing in Act I) was cut out of town; a fully orchestrated recording, sung by Broadway actress Liz Callaway, can be heard on the anthology album Lost in Boston I (Varèse Sarabande VSD-5475). "Till Tomorrow" and "Unfair" were written "on spec" before Bock and Harnick were hired for the show. "Little Tin Box" was added on the road in Philadelphia. Critical response In his review for The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote: "... It is exciting; it is enjoyable and it is decent ... Jerry Bock has set ... a bouncy score ... [A]s the writer of lyrics, Sheldon Harnick is in an unfailingly humorous frame of mind ... [U]nder Mr. Abbott's invincible stage direction, the whole show comes alive with gusto