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Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood

This charming musical revue, featuring some of Irving Berlin's starriest hits, celebrates the prolific composer's glorious dance numbers written specifically for the silver screen.

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Description

  • Musical Revue / Cabaret
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood is an all-singing, all-dancing celebration of the most famous songs that Irving Berlin composed for the silver screen. Berlin understood the power of dance, and his melodies, rhythms and lyrics reflected his love of the art form. In this crowd-pleasing revue, six performers showcase Berlin's magnificent songs, telling the stories behind the man who made the music that made the movies dance.
REVIEWS:

"Songful and sophisticated... a fascinating glimpse into his notebook of unfulfilled ideas offers us a taste of his distinctively American sense of humor... a fine tribute to America's most influential songwriter."

 TheaterMania

"A delectable and indisputably significant series of Berlin songs for movies."

 New York Stage Review

"Well, what do you want from an Irving Berlin revue? Some familiar great old songs, to be sure. Maybe some less-familiar, less-great old songs. Some historical context in which to safely house those songs and explain when and why they were written... All of these things are in abundant supply in Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood."

 Talkin' Broadway

"Bookwriter Barry Kleinbort provides a useful running commentary, including several acted-out scenes where, inaccurately but refreshingly, the women play the studio brass... How welcome are 80 well-done minutes of Irving Berlin? How deep is the ocean, how high is the sky?"

 Talkin' Broadway

Premiere Production: Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood premiered off-Broadway at The York Theatre on November 23, 2021. Conceived, directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner, the production featured Phillip Attmore, Jeremy Benton, Victoria Byrd, Kaitlyn Davidson, Joseph Medeiros and Melanie Moore.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • FEMALE 1 – Range: A3-G5
    FEMALE 2 – Range: G3-F5
    FEMALE 3 – Range: Eb3-F5
    MALE 1 – Range: B2-G4
    MALE 2 – Range: B2-F#4
    MALE 3 – Range: A2-Ab4

  • PIANIST – Non-Singing member of the band

    • Available Material

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

    1 x Libretto
    1 x Keyboard-Conductor

    		$24.00
    Pre-Production Pack Shipped upon receipt of a signed License Agreement and full payment of all invoices. This is optional.

    1 x Libretto
    1 x Keyboard-Conductor (rehearsal & performance)

    		$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.

    7 x Libretto
    1 x Keyboard-Conductor (rehearsal & performance)

    1 x Reed 1 (Flute, Clarinet & Alto Saxophone)
    1 x Reed 2 (Flute, Clarinet & Tenor Saxophone)
    1 x Drum Set (Drum Set, Mark Tree, Triangle & Wood Block)
    1 x Acoustic Bass

    		$450.00 +$135.00/pm

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