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AVAILABLE NOW AS PART OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION SEASON "Musical of Musicals - The Musical is an absolute gift it's simultaneously supremely silly and dazzlingly clever" Stage Noise "Real wit, real charm! Two smart writers and four winning performers! You get the picture. It's great fun!" New York Times "Charming! Funny! Hits its target with sophisticated affection! Refreshing!" New York Magazine "A parody of musicals in the form of a musical....lends itself to self-deprecating humour when done well and this production is..." Sydney City News "Get to this show. You'll have a riot!" Time Out London SYNOPSIS The Musical of Musicals - The Musical! is an off Broadway, 85 minutes five-part cabaret-style musical in two acts which honours and satirises musical theatre. One story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Kander & Ebb. This production is performed with four all singing, all dancing musical theatre "characters" accompanied by piano with minimal sets, props and costumes. The plot is simple - June, an ingenue who can't pay the rent, is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man comes to her rescue? In an evening of variations on a theme, this basic plot is musicalised the way Rodgers & Hammerstein might have envisioned it, taking place in Kansas in August, complete with a "dream ballet". The story is then done in the style of Sondheim, featuring the landlord as a tortured, artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge because they don't appreciate his art. When presented a la Herman, the story becomes a splashy star vehicle and in the style of Lloyd Webber it's a rock musical, with "borrowed" themes from Puccini. The story is re-told one last time in the style of Kander & Ebb, set in a Cabaret in Chicago. CREATIVE Book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart Music by Eric Rockwell and Lyrics by Joanne Bogart Directed by Avigail Herman and Jane Miskovic Choreographed by Jane Miskovic Designed by Jane Miskovic YOUTUBE GALLERY
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AVAILABLE NOW AS PART OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION SEASON

"Musical of Musicals - The Musical is an absolute gift it's simultaneously supremely silly and dazzlingly clever" Stage Noise

"Real wit, real charm! Two smart writers and four winning performers! You get the picture. It's great fun!" New York Times

"Charming! Funny! Hits its target with sophisticated affection! Refreshing!" New York Magazine

"A parody of musicals in the form of a musical....lends itself to self-deprecating humour when done well and this production is..." Sydney City News

"Get to this show. You'll have a riot!" Time Out London

SYNOPSIS

The Musical of Musicals - The Musical! is an off Broadway, 85 minutes five-part cabaret-style musical in two acts which honours and satirises musical theatre. One story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Kander & Ebb. This production is performed with four all singing, all dancing musical theatre "characters" accompanied by piano with minimal sets, props and costumes.

The plot is simple - June, an ingenue who can't pay the rent, is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man comes to her rescue? In an evening of variations on a theme, this basic plot is musicalised the way Rodgers & Hammerstein might have envisioned it, taking place in Kansas in August, complete with a "dream ballet". The story is then done in the style of Sondheim, featuring the landlord as a tortured, artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge because they don't appreciate his art. When presented a la Herman, the story becomes a splashy star vehicle and in the style of Lloyd Webber it's a rock musical, with "borrowed" themes from Puccini. The story is re-told one last time in the style of Kander & Ebb, set in a Cabaret in Chicago.

Cast of the show

CREATIVE

Book by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart

Music by Eric Rockwell and Lyrics by Joanne Bogart

Directed by Avigail Herman and Jane Miskovic

Choreographed by Jane Miskovic

YOUTUBE

GALLERY

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