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ATOMIC - THE MUSICAL

ATOMIC is the thrilling new Off-Broadway musical that blasts open the doors of The Manhattan Project.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Period Piece / Historical, Drama, Australian, Biography

  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

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

  • Accolades:
  • FINALIST! 2015 Drama Desk Award - Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Jeremy Kushnier - Atomic)
    WINNER! 2017 AWGIE - Music Theatre - Danny Ginges with Philip Foxman - Atomic
ATOMIC is the thrilling new Off-Broadway musical that blasts open the doors of The Manhattan Project.

Leo Szilard is the brilliant physicist who unlocks the secret of atomic power. But war turns his hopes for mankind into a billion-dollar race against a German bomb. Ethics, loyalty and true love are tested as Leo and his fellow scientists struggle to save both the world and their own humanity.

Read the script (for perusal only, you must apply for a licence to perform this show)
More information at OzTheatrical!
REVIEWS:

"If there's a tighter, more creative musical production anywhere in Australia this year, please lead me to it."

Stage Whispers (Sydney, 2013)

"This new musical does what the best of the genre does so well -- revitalize ways of looking at the world."

Theatre Red (Sydney, 2013)

"Both interesting and moving... Philip Foxman's music is beautiful."

The New Yorker (New York, 2014)

"Intelligent, thought provoking with a hot rock score that sizzles."

Times Square Chronicle (New York, 2014)

"Compulsively watchable... blows the roof off the theatre."

Theatremania (New York, 2014)

"The music and songs are exhilarating."

The Monitor (Michigan, 2016)

"It's a history lesson, it's a rock musical with a dramatic soundtrack, it's a thought provoking and great entertainment."

Its All Theatre (Michigan, 2016)

"A vibe usually seen at sporting events. A blistering standing ovation. 5/5."

CriticalBlast (St. Louis, 2016)

"It might be the most cerebral rock musical ever written."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, 2016)

"Atomic is thrilling."

Riverfront Times (St. Louis, 2016)






Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
  • Casting Notes: Optional: 1 male and 1 female understudy

  • LEO SZILARD (30) - A brilliant Hungarian physicist with an annoying habit of always being right. He sees the future and science as the way he's going to save it.

  • TRUDE WEISS (20) - A gifted doctor. She's smart enough to know how tough a life with Leo will be, and strong enough to deal with that.

  • ENRICO FERMI (30) - Italian Nobel-winning physicist. If it's not science, he's not interested.

  • ARTHUR COMPTON (30) - Nobel-winning quantum physicist and head of the Chicago Metlab. Torn between science and religion, morality and duty.

  • EDWARD TELLER (30) - A Hungarian genius like Leo with a more aggressive World view. He wants a bigger bomb.

  • LEONA WOODS (20) - The only woman on the Metlab team, but she's not going to let that stop her.

  • ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (30) - The bomb is his ticket to the recognition his brilliance deserves. It's an expensive ticket.

  • GENERAL GROVES (30) - Highly intelligent and quite reasonable. Till you get in his way. He will use the bomb to end the war. Yes he will.

  • PAUL TIBBETS (30) - A fearless young pilot with a keen sense of duty. If he can't win the war single-handed, he'll show how it's done.

  • LAVERNE / MAE / LENA (20) - Rosie the Riveter meets the Andrews Sisters.

  • BARTENDER (20)

  • FEMALE SCIENTIST (20)

  • SCIENTIST (20)

  • U.S. MILITARY MEN x 2 (20)

    • N.Y. COMMUTERS x 7

  • VOICES - News Announcers, Scientist, Roosevelt, Truman, Japanese Announcer

    • Available Material

    Name Price
    Pre-Production Pack Shipped upon receipt of a signed License Agreement and full payment of all invoices. This is optional.

    1 x Lib-Vocal Book / Piano Vocal Book

    		$75.00
    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 Scripts
    15 x Vocal Scores

    		$450.00 +$75.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    Piano
    Keyboard
    Guitars
    Bass Guitar/Double Bass
    Cello
    Drums
    Violin

    		$250.00 +$75.00/pm
    Video Licence Shipped upon receipt of a signed License Agreement and full payment of all invoices. This is optional.

    Up to 20 copies

    		$75.00
    Logo Artwork Shipped upon receipt of a signed License Agreement and full payment of all invoices. This is optional.

    Logo Artwork @ No Charge

    		$0.00
    Digital Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 x Script / Vocal Score
    Once purchased a link will be emailed to you allowing the download to take place.

    		$10.00

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