You can find the sheet music for "I Won't Mind" at Colony Records in NYC and possibly at your local music store. If it is not available at your local music store, have them contact Joe Goldfeder, Distributor for a special order.

Or--send a check for $5.95 ($3.95 plus $2 S+H) made out to
"Joe Goldfeder Music"at the address below.

Joe Goldfeder Music
P.O. Box 660
Lynbrook, NY 11563



The music for "I Won't Mind" is also available in The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook and the How Glory Goes songbook, which features selections from the Audra McDonald CD.




For those of you interested in knowing the context of this song

in the musical for which it was written, it is as follows:

Lizzie is wife to William Franklin, who is Benjamin Franklin’s son. After years of desperately wanting a child, becoming pregnant and ultimately miscarrying, she learns that she will never bear a child. She sings the song to her godson (her best friends’ newborn) in the nursery, while everyone else is in the next room celebrating the christening.

"I Won't Mind" was written for an unfinished (and no longer in progress) musical entitled The Other Franklin.
This play dealt with the relationship between Ben Franklin and his son, William. 
For those who have expressed curiosity in hearing the rest of the score, unfortunately it is unavailable.


FAQS

Thank you for your interest in this song! Some of you have been asking for more information about the show and the song, as required for academic recitals or projects. Please understand that most of your questions are simply unanswerable. Some of the questions I've been asked are:

Was ‘The Other Franklin’ originally a play or a biography or a novel?  Who was it by?

Our musical was based on a number of biographies and various sources of information. There was no single piece of source material.

Where can I find a synopsis of the show?

This does not exist, and it will never exist.

What is the librettist’s name?  How can I contact them?

There is no librettist, as this project was abandoned years ago with no librettist attached. There is no one to contact. There is no answer for the question you would have posed.

I’m assuming that this tells the story of William Franklin, Ben’s son – am I right?

Yes.

If so, is Lizzie the Elizabeth he was originally engaged to or the Elizabeth who he later married and had a son with?

Elizabeth is William's wife, i.e. the Elizabeth he married. The son you mention, William's only son, Temple, was not a product of his marriage to Elizabeth. He was an illegitimate son born a few years before William married - his mother was evidently a woman of "ill repute." Temple was mostly raised by non-family members in England and didn't even meet his father and his father's wife until he was fifteen. Lizzie never bore a child of her own.

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