Chaplin - the musical

• Music, Lyrics and Book Chris Curtis Book Thomas Meehan
• Full Length Musical, Drama, Historic, 19th Century
• 6M, 5F
• ISBN: BL-Chaplin

Chaplin is based on the real-life story of Charlie Chaplin, the iconic film actor, writer, producer and director. The new musical spans the comic’s entire career, from Chaplin’s first performance as a child in 19th-century London to his tearful acceptance of an honorary Academy Award in 1972.

• Full Length Musical
• Drama, Historic
• 135 minutes

• Time Period: 19th Century

• Casting: 6M, 5F

CHARLIE CHAPLIN - After surviving a poverty-stricken and difficult childhood he turned luck into skill and skill into unprecedented opportunity and success. He ages from late teens to late 40’s as he displays unmatched talent on the vaudeville stage, in Keystone pictures and as producer, director and star of his own film studio.
HANNAH CHAPLIN - Charlie’s mother. She is the source of his first inspiration as well as his greatest humiliation.
YOUNG CHARLIE - He sings, dances and suffers great sorrow when he returns to his mother after getting out of the County Home to find she no longer recognizes him. He later plays Jackie Coogan, the famous child actor who co-starred in “The Kid” with Chaplin and the Usher.
SYDNEY CHAPLIN - Charlie’s brother, performing partner, and business manager. He sticks by Charlie through thick and thin, through marriages and women far too young and through political upheavals and exile.
ALF REEVES - Clever, intuitive, fields phone calls and starlet requests brilliantly - and knows Charlie sometimes better than Chaplin knows himself.
MACK SENNETT - The master of his Keystone universe; the rather arrogant yet perfectly knowledgeable creator of a factory of short, slapstick films.
HEDDA HOPPER - A mediocre actress - turned notorious gossip columnist who has made it her personal mission to expose Charlie as a womanizing, cheating, communist foreigner who is making too much money on American shores.
OONA O’NEILL - Wannabe actress who meets Charlie when she turns up late for an audition. Shortly thereafter, she gives up her aspirations for a career in Hollywood and becomes the first woman to appreciate Charlie for who and not what he is.
MR. KARNO
USHER
MILDRED HARRIS
JOAN BARRY
ENSEMBLE - Londoners, Music Hall Patrons, Film Crew, Starlets, Reports, Hollywood Elite