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High Society

Cole Porter’s sparkling musical adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, Phillip Barry’s celebrated 1939 romantic comedy, glitters with wit and sophistication.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1930s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol
  • Orchestra Size: Medium

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Theatre World Award for Anna Kenrick (1998)
At their waterfront estate in Oyster Bay, the Lord family prepares for a lavish wedding weekend. The reluctant bride-to-be, famed socialite Tracy Lord, bristles when her playful ex-husband Dexter arrives to stir up trouble. Juggling a precocious younger sister, an uninspiring fiancé, a pesky ex-husband, a harried mother, a carousing uncle, and a pair of snooping reporters, Tracy struggles to make sense of her romantic life.

The score is packed with Cole Porter standards, including “Ridin’ High,” “She’s Got That Thing,” “True Love,” “Just One Of Those Things,” “Let’s Misbehave,” “It’s All Right With Me,” and “Well, Did You Evah?”

Premiere Production: High Society opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on Apr 27, 1998, starring Melissa Errico, Daniel McDonald, Randy Graff, Stephen Bogardus and John McMartin. It was revived in London at the Old Vic Theatre in 2015.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Chorus Size: Small

  • TRACY SAMANTHA LORD - a wealthy daughter about to be married
    DINAH LORD - Tracy's little sister, 13 years old.
    MOTHER LORD (MARGARET) - Tracy's mother
    SETH LORD - Tracy's father
    DEXTER C.K. HAVEN - a neighbor of the Lords
    LIZ IMBRIE - a magazine photographer
    MIKE (MACAULAY) CONNOR - a journalist
    UNCLE WILLIE - host of Tracy's pre-wedding ball
    GEORGE KITTREDGE - Tracy's husband-to-be

    STAFF: SATB chorus of 4 maids and 4 butlers.

    • Available Material

    Name Price
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 x Prompt Book & Vocal Parts

    		$24.00
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    20 x Prompt Books / Vocal-Chorus Parts
    1 x Piano-Conductor's Score

    		$550.00 +$135.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    2 Reed I: Piccolo, Flute, Alto Flute (or Clarinet), Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone and Baritone Saxophone
    2 Reed II: Flute, Oboe, English Horn (or Clarinet), Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Tenor Saxophone

    1 Horn
    1 Trumpet (doubling Flugelhorn)
    1 Trombone (tenor w/bass attachment)

    2 Percussion I & II (Trap Set & Mallet Instruments*):
    *Timpani (2 Pedal Drums)
    Vibraphone
    Bells (Glockenspiel)
    Marimba
    Xylophone
    Crotales
    Finger Cymbals
    Chimes
    Whip
    Spoons (or Bones)
    Wood Block
    Temple Blocks (5)
    Sandpaper Blocks
    Bell Tree
    Mark Tree
    Slide Whistle
    Maracas
    Bongo Drums
    Cabasa
    Timbalitas
    Siren

    1 Guitar, Banjo, Acoustic Guitar & Ukulele (auxiliary percussion - Agogo Bells)
    1 Keyboard I: Piano, Celeste, Accordian, Synthesizer: Clock tick-tocks, Grand Organ & Saloon Piano
    1 Keyboard II: (Synthesizer with color registrations)

    Note: strings for original orchestra used only one player per part

    2 Violin I (auxiliary percussion - Claves)
    1 Violin II (auxiliary percussion - Guiro)
    1 Viola (auxiliary percussion - Shaker)
    1 Cello (auxiliary percussion - Maracas)
    1 Bass

    Piano-Conductor's Score sent with rehearsal material (2 volumes)

    		$350.00 +$135.00/pm

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