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March 2, 2024
Book by Eric Rockwell & Joanne Bogart | Music by Eric Rockwell |Lyrics by Joanne Bogart
Directed by Gavan Pamer | Music Directed by Camille Villalpando Rolla
Sponsored by Lee Moore Capital, Tiger Barron Foundation, and the NC Arts Council
*Rated PG-13 for some language and some adult situations
A musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form. The plot: June is an ingenue who can't pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? The variations are: a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, complete with a dream ballet; a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius; a Jerry Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, a rock opera; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speakeasy in Chicago.