Suburb
- Full Length Musical, Comedy, Contemporary
- 4M, 4F
- ISBN: SL1
For all the books, movies and sitcoms that have either eulogized or vilified them, the suburbs have been largely ignored by musical theatre -- until now.
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Description
- Full Length Musical
- Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Set Requirements: Flexible Staging
- Cautions: Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary, Senior Theatre
- Accolades:
- Winner! 1999 Richard Rodgers Development Award
Winner! 2000 Buffalo (NY) Art Voice Best Musical of the Year
Winner! Kleban Prize for Most Promising Lyricist (David Javerbaum)
For all the books, movies and sitcoms that have either eulogized or vilified them, the suburbs have been largely ignored by musical theatre -- until now.
REVIEWS:
Suburb takes an insightful, witty, and nuanced view of the world of the lawnmower, the barbecue, and the mall, exploring the suburb's rites and rituals with a four-person chorus (expandable to eight) and four main characters: Alison, a pregnant young professional determined to avoid moving back to the suburbs; Stuart, Alison's husband, who finds himself suddenly seized by an overwhelming desire to go suburban; Rhoda, the chain-smoking Über-realtor, a perpetual divorcée hell-bent on selling Alison and Stuart their dream house; and Tom, a widower and avid do-it-yourselfer who in the face of retirement has reluctantly put his home of 40 years up for sale.
The stories of these four people-interwoven with the choruses frequent musical reveries on subjects like mowing the lawn, the mall, and the perfection of perfectly grilled meat-form the road map of Suburb.
REVIEWS:
"A show well worth seeing. So so now, and later you can say you did so before it was cool."
The Washington Post
"A sweet, old-fashioned take on the charms and travails of ex-urban life."
New York Post
"The most enjoyable new musical I've seen all season."
Broadway.com
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Expandable casting
