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Wings

Wings is all that good theatre should be... A transcendent musical-theatre piece where language, music and emotion meet to create some exquisite, newly imagined form of communication... Soaring, lyrical, poetic, a meditation on life, death, memory and expression that, quite simply, takes your breath away.

Chicago Sun Times

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Drama

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Church / Religious Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 3 Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best New Work
    Winner! 2 Obie Awards
In her adventurous youth, Emily was an aviatrix who fearlessly walked on the wings of the family biplane. Just as she once plummeted dizzyingly through space, she is now falling through inner space as the result of a stroke. 

This extraordinary musical takes us inside Emily's mind as this gallant woman gropes her way toward the cave of memory, away from the scrambled words and short-circuited thoughts that hold her captive. With breathtaking simplicity, WINGS charts Emily's hesitant recovery as she begins regaining the vocabulary to accompany her reawakened emotions. But a relapse hurls her back into the void, this time to face death. 

In this musical's exultant view, however, Emily has merely taken flight once again, the curiosity and bravery that prompted her girlish exploits having seized her anew.
REVIEWS:

"WINGS is all that good theatre should be...A transcendent musical-theatre piece where language, music and emotion meet to create some exquisite, newly imagined form of communication... Soaring, lyrical, poetic, a meditation on life, death, memory and expression that, quite simply, takes your breath away."

Chicago Sun Times

"A moving, pristine chamber musical... extremely powerful. In 1978, it felt like something of an honor to see a show like WINGS. That feeling remains unchanged."

Variety

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Casting Notes: May be cast with 3 women and 2 men.

    In the original production actors doubled in the roles of Doctor/Mr. Brambilla and Nurse/Mrs. Timmins.

  • EMILY STILSON
    DOCTOR
    NURSE
    AMY
    BILLY
    MR. BRAMBILLA
    MRS. TIMMINS

    • Available Material

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

    1 x Libretto-Vocal Book
    1 x Keyboard I/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 Keyboard I/Conductor 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.

    10 x Libretto-Vocal Books
    8 x Keyboard I/Conductor Scores

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

    1 x Keyboard II (Synthesizer)
    1 x Reed (Flute, Clarinet)
    1 x Cello
    1 x Percussion (Wind Chimes, Vibraphone, Suspended Cymbal, Triangle, Orchestra Bells (Glock), Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Tri-Toms (different pitches), Timpani)

    		$350.00 +$135.00/pm

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