The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)

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T0283485425 (LANDMARK11) Running time: 1hr 45mins (inc. interval)Company Theatre Petrock.
2 Dec 11 to 3 Dec 11	The Landmark, Ilfracombe :: V1177 listing details L0729248250
T0792850470 (PLAYCHEL11) Company Ad Hoc Theatre Company.
29 Sep 11 to 1 Oct 11	Playhouse Theatre, Cheltenham :: V92 listing details L1808836573
T01879317286 (YEOLDE11) Producer All Star Productions. Director Lydia Milman Schmidt. Musical Director Aaron Clingham.
16 Aug 11 to 26 Aug 11	Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre Pub, Outer London :: V01545419451 listing details L62386397
T1966474986 (TRON09) Company Upstage Theatre Company.
24 Jun 09 to 27 Jun 09	The Tron, Glasgow :: V622 listing details L1273460013
T0979041463 (EDFRINGE08) Company Throwaway.
17 Aug 08 to 25 Aug 08	Fringe, Edinburgh :: V1059 listing details L0420534936
T1820664130 (KINGSHEAD06) Producer NML Productions. Producer Melanie Herman. Producer York Theatre Company. Producer Martian Entertainment (in association with Louis Bluver). Director Julian Woolford. Musical Director Dean Austin. Choreographer Steven Harris. Design Ben Stones. Lighting Emma Chapman. Performer Susannah Fellows. Performer Ian McLarnon.
5 Dec 06 to 28 Jan 07	The King's Head Theatre, Inner London :: V235 listing details L1096550373
T01845000017 (SOUND06) Running Time: Approximately 2 hours including interval.Producer NML Productions. Producer Melanie Herman. Producer York Theatre Company. Producer Martian Entertainment (in association with Louis Bluver). Director Julian Woolford. Director Dean Austin (music). Choreographer Steven Harris. Design Ben Stones. Performer Geoffrey Abbott. Performer Joanna Ampil. Performer Susannah Fellows. Performer Ian McLarnon.
28 Mar 06 to 22 Apr 06	Sound Theatre, Inner London :: V0686189316 listing details L0642211111

Details

Musical :: The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is a musical about musicals. In a comic satire of musical theatre genres, one story becomes five musicals. Each has the distinctive style of a different master of the form. The collision of the worlds of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Kander and Ebb results in an evening of original (although utterly derivative) music and lyrics talking a satirical swipe at that most beloved of all theatrical forms. June, an ingénue who can't pay the rent, is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to her rescue? In an evening of variations on a theme, this basic plot is musicalised the way Rodgers and Hammerstein might have envisioned it, taking place in Kansas in August, complete with a Dream Ballet. The story is then re-created in the style of Stephen 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 in the style of Jerry Herman, the story becomes a splashy star vehicle, while the Andrew Lloyd Webber version is a rock musical, with borrowed themes from Puccini. The story is re-told one last time in the style of Kander and Ebb, set in a speakeasy in Chicago.

Music	Eric Rockwell
Lyrics	Joanne Bogart
Book by	Rockwell
Book by	Bogart