Opus Number: 144
Music: Songs sung by Burl Ives
Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto
Lighting: James F. Ingalls
Program Notes: “Dilly” is a shortening of “delightful.”
Date First Performed: February 20, 2016
Notes: “Dilly Dilly brought back beautiful renderings of folk songs by Burl Ives —“Foggy Foggy Dew,” “Frankie and Johnny,” “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” and of course “Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) – It was frisky and good natured.” – Robert Gottlieb, New York Observer
Francisco Graciano and Company, photo by Paul B. Goode
