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Rodgers & Hammerstein's A Grand Night for Singing

This first-rate revue offers a fresh and innovative take on the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy, Cabaret
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions
  • Orchestra Size: Medium

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

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical (1994)
    Nominee! Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue (1994)
Taste and imagination, the two key ingredients for a first-rate revue, abound in this fresh take on the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon, conceived by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie. Over three decades after the duo's final collaboration, The Sound of Music, took Broadway by storm, this new R&H musical opened the 1994 Broadway season with flair and distinction, garnering wildly enthusiastic notices and earning two Tony nominations, including Best Musical.

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein may never have imagined "Shall We Dance?" as a comic pas de deux for a towering beauty and her diminutive admirer, nor might they have suspected that one day a lovelorn young lad might pose the musical question, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" But that's precisely the kind of invention lavished upon this new revue, with innovative musical arrangements, including a sultry Andrews Sisters-esque "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair," a swingin' "Honeybun" worthy of the Modernaires, and a jazzy "Kansas City," proving how terrifically up to date the remarkable songs of R&H remain.
REVIEWS:

"A splendiferous show of songs, a terrific compendium. Everything's up to date with Rodgers and Hammerstein is indeed a grand night!"

New York Post

"A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING is enough to restore one's faith in the future of the revue and the durability of Rodgers & Hammerstein. It gives the material the kind of thoughtful rethinking it has long deserved."

USA Today
Premiere Production: Rodgers & Hammerstein's A Grand Night For Singing premiered on Broadway at the Criterion Center Stage Right on November 17, 1993. Directed by Walter Bobbie, the production featured Victoria Clark, Jason Graae, Alyson Reed, Martin Vidnovic and Lynne Wintersteller.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

MARTIN - Leading Man, Baritone
LYNNE - Leading Lady, Soprano
VICTORIA - Comic Ingenue, Second soprano
JASON - Comic Juvenile, Tenor
ALYSON - Soubrette, Alto, Dancer

Available Material

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

1 x Libretto/Vocal Book
1 x Piano Conductor Score

$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/Vocal Book
1 x Vocal Score

$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 Vocal Books
1 x Piano-Conductor Score

$400.00 +$135.00/pm
Orchestral Material Shipped with (or after) Rehearsal Material. This is optional.

1 x Reed (Piccolo, Alto Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax)
1 x Percussion
1 x Cello
1 x Bass
1 x Harp

$0.00
Lib/Vocal Book 10 Pack Shipped with (or after) Rehearsal Material. This is optional.

10 x Libretto/Vocal Books

$50.00 +$50.00/pm

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