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Call Me Madam

Ambassador Sally Adams, with slim credentials, is sent off to administer in the tiny duchy of Lichtenburg. It's not long before her down-to-earth, typically undiplomatic manner has surprised and charmed the local gentry, especially the handsome Prime Minister.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1950s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Orchestra Size: X-Large

  • Performance Group:
  • Elementary School / Primary, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Church / Religious Groups

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Tony Award for Best Original Score (1952)
Once President Harry S. Truman appointed Washington hostess Perle Mesta as Ambassador to Luxembourg, the foundation was laid for a musical comedy that would kid politics-foreign and domestic alike.

Ambassador Sally Adams, with slim credentials, is sent off to administer in the tiny duchy of Lichtenburg. It's not long before her down-to-earth, typically undiplomatic manner has surprised and charmed the local gentry, especially the handsome Prime Minister. A second romance is blossoming between her young Ivy League aid and Lichtenburg's enchanting young Princess.

The course of love is threatened by the stuffy opposition, who eventually succeed in wrangling Sally's recall, but not before all has resolved happily for both pairs of lovers.
REVIEWS:

"Sailing on one of Irving Berlin's most rhythmically propulsive scores, CALL ME MADAM soars like a musically-powered balloon. And what a ride it turns out to be!"

The New York Times

"A reminder of how much sheer fun it used to be to go to the theater!"

New York Daily News
Premiere Production: Call Me Madam opened on Broadway on October 12, 1950 at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 644 performances. The original production, directed by George Abbott and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, starred Ethel Merman and Russell Nype. Elaine Stritch led the cast in the subsequent national tour. In 1995, Tyne Daly played the "hostess with the mostess" in an Encores! production at New York's City Center. The show returned to Encores! in 2019, starring Carmen Cusack.

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Chorus Size: Large

  • MRS. SALLY ADAMS
    THE SECRETARY OF STATE
    SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
    CONGRESSMAN WILKINS
    HENRY GIBSON
    KENNETH GIBSON
    SENATOR GALLAGHER
    SECRETARY TO MRS. ADAMS
    BUTLER
    SENATOR BROCKBANK
    COSMO CONSTANTINE
    PEMBERTON MAXWELL
    CLERK
    HUGO TANTINNIN
    PRINCESS MARIA
    COURT CHAMBERLAIN
    A MAID
    GRAND DUCHESS SOPHIE
    GRAND DUKE OTTO
    SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
    PRINCIPAL DANCERS
    THE OCARINA PLAYERS

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    1 x Piano Conductor Score

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    1 x Piano Conductor Score

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    1 x Reed IV (Flute, Clarinet, Tenor Sax)
    1 x Reed V (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Alto Sax, Baritone Sax, Optional Bassoon)
    1 x Horn
    1 x Trumpet I
    1 x Trumpet III
    1 x Trombone I
    1 x Trombone II
    1 x Percussion (Trap Set, Bells, Xylophone, Timpani, Wood Blocks, Triangle, Vibraphone)
    1 x Guitar (Doubles Banjo)
    1 x Violin A - C (Divisi)
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