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Beguiled Again

Beguiled Again illuminates the astonishing breadth of their output with a musical menu offering nearly fifty selections from the incomparable Rodgers and Hart songbook.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Carbonell Award for Best Musical (1997)
The remarkable partnership of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart spanned twenty-four years, resulting in the scores for thirty stage musicals and nine films. While their songs are acknowledged as among the most sophisticated and witty of their time, they could also be stunning in their simplicity and directness.

BEGUILED AGAIN illuminates the astonishing breadth of their output with a musical menu offering nearly fifty selections from the incomparable Rodgers and Hart songbook. This cleverly compiled potpourri juxtaposes the urbane and the melancholy, the sardonic and the romantic, providing ever-changing and contrasting emotional journeys that give this revue real momentum.

There is no linear plot or 'and then they wrote' narrative. Rather, the songs are grouped thematically in ways that allow them to tell their own stories and reveal their splendor in the process. Variety and vigor have always been the Rodgers and Hart hallmarks. Perhaps their illustrious compeer, Irving Berlin (who also knew a thing or two about songwriting) summed it up best with his famous maxim: 'Tuneful and tasty, schmaltzy and smart - music by Rodgers, lyrics by Hart.'
REVIEWS:

“A dazzler…a completely original approach to the music.”

Palm Beach Jewish Journal

“Think of it as the thinking person’s musical revue…More than simply entertained, one is edified and impressed with the complexity and wisdom of the songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart.”

Boca Raton News

“Snappy, happy and sassy…an amazing reinvention of the musical revue.”

Sun Sentinel

“BEGUILED AGAIN touches musical heaven…Rodgers and Hart’s work is beautiful and bewitching.”

Miami Herald
Premiere Production: Beguiled Again was developed at Florida Stage in Manalapan, Florida and quickly became the most successful production in the theater’s history. Conceived by J. Barry Lewis, Lynette Barkley, and Craig D. Ames (who also arranged the music), the show is a revue of Rodgers and Hart’s famous songs.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
  • Casting Notes: While the original production was presented with a cast of only six, a singing-dancing ensemble as large as desired can easily be incorporated.
    The characters are identified in the script and the score by the names of the actors who created the roles. For the purpose of your production, you may want to identify them by the names of your actors.
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • HEATHER
    MICHELLE
    KIM
    SETH
    MICHAEL
    TOM

    • Available Material

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

    1 x Libretto
    1 x Piano Vocal Score

    		$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.

    10 x Libretto
    10 x Piano Vocal Score
    1 x Bass

    		$550.00 +$135.00/pm

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