Glorious!: The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the Worst Singer in the World
- Full Length Play, Comedy, 1940s / WWII
- 2M, 4F
- ISBN: 9780573111563
In 1940's New York, the performed who everyone wanted to see live was Florence Foster Jenkins, an enthusiastic soprano whose pitch was far from perfect.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: 1940s / WWII
- Target Audience: Adult, Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences, Senior
- Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Opportunity for Spectacle
- Cautions: No Special Cautions
- Performance Group:
- sinn, Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Outdoor, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
- Accolades:
- Nominee! Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy
Based upon a true story, the play spins from Florence's charity recitals and extravagant balls, through to her bizarre recording sessions and an ultimate triumph at Carnegie Hall in this hilarious and heart-warming comedy.
REVIEWS:
"A delightful and blissfully funny play that generates a rare glow of warmth and generous laughter."
Daily Telegraph
"Outstandingly droll and surprisingly touching."
The Independent
"Comically sublime."
The Guardian
"A lunatically funny play that will keep you very happy... A glittering comedy with a heart."
Sunday Times
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
- Casting Notes: Florence Foster Jenkins is a singer. A bad singer. One of the worst ever (but she just doesn't realise.) Companies could cast an actress who sings, who will them learn to sing badly. Or they can cast an actress who does not sing and she can fight for the notes as she does in the shower. It works either way. So long as the actress has a keen sense of comedy, she will find a way of making Florence sing in the terrible way that made her so infamous.
COSME McMOON - a pianist, early 30s
ST CLAIR - Florence's English boyfriend, 60s
DOROTHY - Florence's friend, 60s
MARIA - Florence and St Clair's Mexican cook and housemaid
MRS. VERRINDER-GEDGE - an American lady, late middle age
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In 1940's New York, the performer who everyone wanted to see live was Florence Foster Jenkins, an enthusiastic soprano whose pitch was far from perfect. Known as "The First Lady of the Sliding Scale," she warbled and screeched her way through the evening to an audience who mostly fell about with laughter. But this delusional and joyously happy woman paid little attention to her critics, instead she was surrounded by a circle of devoted friends who were almost as eccentric as she was. |
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