- Bill Starbuck and Lizzie Curry "Cinderella" - Vivian Lorraine Taylor and Lizzie Curry "Raunchy" - Lizzie Curry "A Man and a Woman" - File and Lizzie Curry "Old Maid" - Lizzie Curry Act II "Evenin' Star" (added for the 2007 revival) - Bill Starbuck "Everything Beautiful Happens at Night" - Lizzie Curry and Townspeople "Melisande" - Bill Starbuck "Simple Little Things" - Lizzie Curry "Little Red Hat" - Snookie and Jimmy Curry "Is It Really Me?" - Lizzie Curry "Wonderful Music" - Bill Starbuck, File, and Lizzie Curry "The Rain Song" (Reprise) - Townspeople Synopsis Act I It's the Fourth of July in 1936, in the small town of Three Point in the Southwestern U.S., where a blistering heat wave has the local sheriff, File, and the other townsfolk forever eyeing the sky ("Another Hot Day"). Elsewhere in town, on the ranch of widower H.C. Curry, the air is also charged with anticipation, due to the imminent arrival of H.C.'s daughter ("Lizzie's Coming Home"), who's been off visiting friends of the family (pseudo-relatives "Uncle" Ned and "Aunt" Marabelle and their sons) in [Sweetwater]. The trip was designed to find Lizzie a husband, but to no avail: as at home, her intelligence, sharp wit, and insecurities proved her undoing. H.C. and his sons, Jim and Noah, hatch a plan to invite Sheriff File to the annual picnic lunch, where Lizzie can impress him with her prettiest party dress and tastiest picnic basket. Reluctant at first, but then allowing herself to dream just a bit, Lizzie agrees ("Love Don't Turn Away"). Sheriff File, unfortunately, proves immune to every enticement the Curry boys offer ("Poker Polka"). His mind is more on "some sort of outlaw" heading into town, a fellow named Tornado Johnson; besides, he knows a fix-up when he sees one, and as he puts it, "I can mend my own shirts." Jim and Noah depart, but H.C. stays behind to tell File he knows the lie File's been living: that File's not a widower, as he claims to be—that his wife ran out on him. H.C. sees a man who's lonely and shut off, one who needs "a lot more mendin' than shirts," but File grows angry and defensive, and H.C. leaves him be. As the ladies at the picnic grounds await the arrival of "The Hungry Men", File is noticeably not among them, and although her father and brothers