An Australian Musical
17th Century Paris: at a time of political turbulence, there lived a flamboyant, swashbuckling, gallant hero. Blessed with a nose 'splendiferous' the not very attractive Cyrano de Bergerac loved passionately, but silently. The subject of that love was his childhood friend, the beautiful Roxanne who only had eyes for another, the very 'elegant' but inarticulate Christian de Neuvillette.
Supremely 'eloquent', Cyrano is asked by Roxanne's Duenna to guide Christian's love to Roxanne, a task Cyrano achieves brilliantly through his 'lettres d'amour' faithfully and safely delivered on Christian's behalf, even on the field of battle. In his mission Cyrano, unable to restrain himself in doing the Duenna's bidding, pours out all his passion, heart and soul, as if Roxanne was his. But alas.
Christian and Roxanne are married. But there is a war going on and Christian becomes an early casualty, shot dead, causing the distraught Roxanne and her Duenna to enter Holy Orders in Paris, Roxanne taking with her Christian's last bloodstained letter...
Too late she discovered that the very eloquent words, the passion she had fallen in love with, belonged in fact to the heart and soul of Cyrano, true love's ultimate tragic victim, and it was with Cyrano's heart that Roxanne's true love lay all the time.
Cast Requirements: 7 Principal characters, female chorus (nuns), male chorus (poets, cooks, rabble, cadets, minor roles)
Musical Numbers: CD Now available featuring Australian Cast Recording, Normie Rowe, Simon Gallaher, Penny Hay, John O'May.