Little Musicals for Little Theatres : A Reference Guide to the Musicals That Don't Need Chandeliers or Helicopters to Succeed

by Flinn, Denny Martin

• ISBN13: 9780879103217
• ISBN10: 0879103213
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-31
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp

Summary

"This handbook contains essential information on more than 150 small musicals that any theatre or school can produce with limited resources. Author Denny Martin Flinn, an experienced Broadway and Off-Broadway director, includes Off-Broadway shows and the few Broadway musicals that have small casts and can be performed in almost any circumstances. As Flinn says in his prologue, these are productions that "require more creativity than money."" "In each entry you will find a synopsis of the musical, its cast size, a list of musical numbers, and Flinn's professional comments on the advantages and disadvantages of producing the show. Flinn also provides licensing information, production notes, photos of many of the plays that give you a look at production requirements, commentary, and statistics on the number of performances that reveal just how successful the original production was. Appendixes include contact information for licensing organizations, authors, composers, and lyricists, and an index offers quick access to individual titles." "If you're planning to produce a little musical, or simply want a quick-reference guide, you need this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Prologue	xiii
Part One: The Book Musicals
3hree: The Mice, Lavender Girl, Flight of the Lawnchair Man	2	(2)
The Amorous Flea	4	(2)
Angry Housewives	6	(1)
The Apple Tree: The Diary of Adam and Eve	7	(1)
Avenue X	8	(2)
Baby	10	(1)
Ballad for a Firing Squad	11	(2)
Bat Boy	13	(2)
Birds of Paradise	15	(1)
Boy Meets Boy	16	(2)
Brownstone	18	(1)
Celebration	19	(1)
A Class Act	20	(2)
The Club	22	(1)
Clue---The Musical	23	(1)
Colette Collage	24	(2)
Company	26	(2)
The Contrast	28	(2)
Cowgirls	30	(2)
Curley McDimple	32	(1)
Dames at Sea	33	(2)
Das Barbecii	35	(1)
A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine	36	(2)
Diamond Studs	38	(2)
Dracula: The Musical?	40	(2)
Eating Raoul	42	(1)
Evelyn and the Polka King	43	(2)
F. Jasmine Addams	45	(1)
Falsettos: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland, Falsettos	46	(4)
The Fantasticks	50	(4)
Fashion	54	(1)
Festival	55	(2)
A Fine and Private Place	57	(1)
First Lady Suite: Over Texas, Where's Mamie?, Olio, Eleanor Sleeps Here	58	(2)
Flora, the Red Menace	60	(2)
The Gift of the Magi and The New Leaf	62	(1)
The Gifts of the Magi	63	(2)
The Gig	65	(1)
Godspell	66	(2)
The Grass Harp	68	(1)
The Great American Backstage Musical	69	(1)
Gunmetal Blues	70	(1)
Hark!	71	(2)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch	73	(1)
Hello Again	74	(2)
Hijinks!	76	(2)
Honky Tonk Highway	78	(1)
I Can't Keep Running in Place	79	(1)
I Do! I Do!	80	(2)
I Love My Wife	82	(1)
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road	83	(1)
Inside Out	84	(2)
Just So	86	(1)
The Last Five Years	87	(1)
The Last Session	88	(1)
The Last Sweet Days of Isaac	89	(1)
Little Mary Sunshine	90	(2)
Little Shop of Horrors	92	(2)
Lucky Nurse and Other Short Musical Plays	94	(1)
Lucky Stiff	95	(2)
Man with a Load of Mischief	97	(2)
Mayor	99	(1)
Me, Myself and I	100	(1)
Mirette	101	(2)
A New Brain	103	(2)
No Way to Treat a Lady	105	(1)
Now Is the Time for All Good Men	106	(2)
Oil City Symphony	108	(1)
Olympus on My Mind	109	(2)
Once on This Island	111	(2)
Pageant	113	(1)
Park	114	(1)
Piano Bar	115	(1)
Pump Boys and Dinettes	116	(1)
Radio Gals	117	(2)
Return to the Forbidden Planet	119	(2)
The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd	121	(1)
The Rocky Horror Show	122	(2)
Romance/Romance	124	(2)
Ruthless!	126	(2)
Sally Blane, World's Greatest Girl Detective	128	(1)
Salvation	129	(1)
Shelter	130	(1)
Show Me Where the Good Times Are	131	(1)
Smoke on the Mountain and Sanders Family Christmas	132	(3)
Something's Afoot!	135	(2)
Song and Dance	137	(1)
Song of Singapore	138	(2)
Splendora	140	(1)
Spokesong	141	(1)
Starblast	142	(1)
Starmites	143	(2)
Stop the World---I Want to Get Off	145	(1)
They're Playing Our Song	146	(2)
The Thing About Men	148	(1)
Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down	149	(1)
The Threepenny Opera	150	(4)
Touch	154	(1)
Trixie True, Teen Detective	155	(1)
Two by Two	156	(1)
Weird Romance	157	(2)
What About Luv? (a.k.a. Love)	159	(2)
Whispers on the Wind	161	(1)
Yankee Ingenuity	162	(2)
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!!!	164	(3)
Your Own Thing	167	(2)
Zombie Prom	169	(3)
Part Two: The Themed Revues
The All Night Strut	172	(1)
A...My Name Is Alice and A... My Name Is Still Alice	173	(2)
Beehive	175	(2)
Blame It on the Movies	177	(2)
Blues in the Night	179	(1)
Diamonds	180	(1)
Doctor! Doctor!	181	(2)
El Grande de Coca Cola	183	(1)
Five Guys Named Moe	183	(2)
Forever Plaid	185	(1)
Free to Be...You and Me	186	(1)
Greenwich Village, U.S.A.	187	(1)
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!	188	(2)
Is There Life After High School?	190	(1)
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change	191	(2)
Lovesong	193	(1)
The Mad Show	194	(1)
The Me Nobody Knows and Bring In the Morning (a.k.a. Me Too)	195	(1)
Nunsense	196	(2)
Oh! Calcutta!	198	(2)
One Mo' Time and Further Mo'	200	(2)
Personals	202	(1)
Quilters	203	(1)
Scrambled Feet	204	(1)
Songbook, a.k.a. The Moony Shapiro Songbook	205	(2)
Songs for a New World	207	(1)
Swingtime Canteen	208	(1)
Taking My Turn	209	(1)
Three to One: One for the Money, Two for the Show, Three to Make Ready	210	(2)
Tintypes	212	(2)
Tuscaloosa's Calling Me (but I'm Not Going)	214	(1)
What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This? and What's a Nice Country Like You Still Doing in a State Like This?	215	(3)
Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly and Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee-Do	218	(4)
Part Three: The Composer/Lyricist Revues
Irving Berlin	222	(2)
Leonard Bernstein	224	(1)
Jacques Brel	225	(2)
Johnny Burke	227	(2)
Noel Coward	229	(4)
E.Y. ``Yip'' Harburg	233	(2)
Jerry Herman	235	(2)
Jones and Schmidt	237	(2)
Kander and Ebb	239	(4)
Jerome Kern	243	(2)
Carole King	245	(1)
John Latouche	246	(2)
Tom Lehrer	248	(1)
Leiber and Stoller	249	(3)
Maltby and Shire	252	(3)
Mitchell Parrish	255	(1)
Cole Porter	256	(7)
Rodgers and Hart	263	(4)
Rodgers and Hammerstein	267	(3)
Stephen Sondheim	270	(6)
Charles Strouse	276	(2)
Fats Waller	278	(1)
Kurt Weill	279	(4)
Vincent Youmans	283	(2)
Contact Information for Licensing Organizations	285	(1)
Contact Information for Authors, Composers, and Lyricists	286	(1)
Index of Titles	287