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110 In The Shade

This beautiful, touching musical adaptations of Nash's stage play The Rainmaker explores love, hope and redemption in a small southwestern town during the Great Depression.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1930s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
  • Orchestra Size: Large

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Four Tony Awards including Best Composer & Lyricist (1964)
    Nominee! Five Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical (2007)
    Nominee! Two Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical (2007)
    Winner! Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress (Audra McDonald) (2007)
N. Richard Nash, Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones explore depression-era love and hope in this musical adaptation of Nash's stage play, The Rainmaker. In the tiny town of Three Point, in the hot and drought-stricken American southwest, traveling con man Bill Starbuck promises the local farmers he can conjure some much-needed rain. Spinster Lizzie Curry, whose advances are rebuffed by Sheriff File, blossoms as she pursues a romantic relationship with the charismatic stranger.

Numbers include "Love, Don’t Turn Away," "Little Red Hat," "Simple Little Things," "Everything Beautiful Happens At Night" and "Wonderful Music."

Premiere Production:

110 in the Shade opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 24, 1963, starring Robert Horton, Inga Swenson and Stephen Douglass. The West End production opened at the Palace Theatre on February 8, 1967, where it played for 101 performances, starring Ivor Emmanuel and Joel Warfield. In 1992, the New York City Opera presented a revival of the show, and a Broadway revival at Studio 54 opened on May 9, 2007, starring Audra McDonald, John Cullum and Steve Kazee.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Expandable casting
  • Chorus Size: Large

  • LIZZIE CURRY - At first glance, she seems a woman who can cope with all the aspects of life. She has the world of materiality under control; she is a good housekeeper; pots and pans, needles and thread – when she touches them, they serve. She knows well where she fits in the family – she is daughter, sister, mother, child – and she enjoys the manifold elements of her position. She has a sure ownership of her own morality, for the tenets of right and wrong are friendly to her – and she is comfortably forthright in living by them. A strong and integral woman in every life function – except one. Here she is, thirty-ish, and no man outside the family has loved her or found her beautiful. And yet, ironically, it is this one un-fulfilled part of Lizzie that is the most potentially beautiful facet of the woman – this yearning for romance – this courageous searching for it in the desert of her existence… And if some day a man should find her, he will find a ready woman, willing to give herself with the totality of her rich being.

  • H. C. CURRY - Lizzie’s father. He is in his late fifties, powerfully set, capable, a good man to take store in. But he’s not all prosaic efficiency – there’s a dream in him.

  • NOAH CURRY - Lizzie’s older brother. He is somewhat like his father, without H.C.’s imagination. As a matter of fact, he has little imagination at all and would appear to be self-righteous and rigidly opinionated were it not for his basic decency and his warm yearning to be kind.

  • JIMMY CURRY - Lizzie’s younger brother. In his early twenties but big and broad-shouldered, he looks older than his years until he opens his mouth; then he’s a child. He’s not sure that he’s very bright and this is his great cross. He is filled with inchoate longing.

  • BILL STARBUCK - A big man, lithe, agile – a loud braggart, a gentle dreamer. He carries a short hickory stick – it is his weapon, his pointer, his magic wand, his pride of manhood.

  • FILE - The sheriff. He is a lean man, reticent, intelligent, in his late thirties. He smiles wryly at the world and at himself. Perhaps he is a little bitter; if so, his bitterness is leavened by a mischievous humor.

  • SNOOKIE UPDEGRAFF - She is perhaps seventeen, and pretty and pretty, and pretty, and pretty, and pretty. Which is to say she is pretty.

  • Townspeople of Three Point:
    TOBY - The middle aged stationmaster
    MRS. JESSEN - Fat and middle-aged and good natured
    PHIL MACKEY - About nineteen
    TOMMY - A boy of eight
    BELINDA - A spectacled girl of nine
    GESHY TOOPS - A man in his thirties
    GIL DEMBY - A boy in his teens
    OLIVE BARROW - A pretty girl
    WALLY SKACKS - 3rd a boy in his late teens
    MAURINE TOOPS - A girl in her twenties
    BO DOLLIVON - A boy in his twenties
    MR. CURTIS - A minister
    WALLY SKACKS - An old man

  • Other townspeople to dance and sing – of all ages and descriptions, not necessarily (please!) all good looking. Real people.

    • Available Material

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

    1 x Piano-Conductor's Score
    1 x Prompt Book (Director)
    1 x Prompt Book (Cast)
    1 x Prompt Book (Principal Characters)
    1 x Chorus-Vocal Part

    		$24.00
    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.

    33 x Chorus-Vocal Parts
    19 x Prompt Books - For the Cast
    1 x Prompt Book - For the Principal Characters
    1 x Prompt Book - For the Director
    1 x Piano-Conductor's Score

    		$550.00 +$135.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    2 Violin
    1 Viola
    1 Cello
    1 Bass

    1 Flute & Piccolo
    1 Oboe & English Horn
    1 Reed I: Eb Clarinet, Bb Clarinet & Soprano Saxophone
    1 Reed II: Flute (or Clarinet) & Clarinet
    1 Reed III: Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
    1 Reed IV: Clarinet, Bassoon & Baritone Saxophone

    1 Horn I & II
    1 Trumpet I & II (Tpt. I in Bb & D; Tpt. II in Bb)
    1 Trumpet III
    1 Trombone

    2 Percussion I & II:

    Timpani (2 Drums)
    Snare Drum
    Bass Drum
    Tom-Tom
    Large Suspended Cymbal
    Hi-Hat Cymbals
    Glockenspiel
    Xylophone
    Vibraphone
    Tambourine
    Wood Block
    Cowbell
    Triangle
    Small Sleigh Bells
    Maracas
    Castanets

    1 Harp
    1 Guitar & Banjo

    Piano (Piano-Conductor's Score sent with rehearsal material.)

    		$350.00 +$135.00/pm

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