The hopes, anxieties and shattered dreams of the inhabitants of a New York City tenement are evoked to poignant results in this ambitious musical work which is virtually a contemporary opera. Rose is a frustrated young woman who can give herself to neither the smooth talking sharpie who pursues her nor the earnest neighbor who loves her. Anna is her mother, whose loveless marriage to a drunken bully drives her to an affair that ends in tragedy. The honesty and power of this stark fable, set during one sweltering summer's day during the Great Depression, at once celebrates and mourns those who struggle to beat a humane existence out of the squalor of a callous urban environment.
Cast Requirements: PRINCIPALS
7 Women
7 Men
1 Boy
FEATURED
6 Women
5 Men
COMMENTS
Singing-dancing ensemble with several small roles and children
Set Requirements: STREET SCENE takes place on a sidewalk in New York City in 1947.
Genre / Style: Musical Drama
Rehearsal / Orchestral Material: Rehearsal Set (40 Books)
20 Vocal Books
20 Piano Vocal Scores
Orchestra Package (25 Books)
1 FULL SCORE – VOL I (Conductor)
1 FULL SCORE – VOL II (Conductor)
1 FULL SCORE – VOL III (Conductor)
1 PIANO/CELESTE
1 FLUTE (Doubles Piccolo)
1 OBOE (Doubles English Horn)
1 CLARINET I
1 CLARINET II
1 CLARINET III (Doubles Bass Clarinet)
1 BASSOON
1 HORN I
1 HORN II
1 TRUMPET I
1 TRUMPET II
1 TROMBONE I
1 TROMBONE II (with F attachment)
2 PERCUSSION (2 Players, see list below)
2 VIOLIN I (Divisi)
1 VIOLIN II (Divisi)
1 VIOLA (Divisi)
1 CELLO (Divisi)
1 BASS
1 HARP
Musical Numbers: Somehow I Never Could Believe, What Good Would The Moon Be?, The Woman Who Lived Up There, Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed, Ain't It Awful, The Heat?, Lonely House