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 MY FAVORITE YEAR
Book by Joseph Dougherty. Music by Stephen Flaherty. Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.
Based on the motion picture My Favorite Year courtesy of Turner
Entertainment Company. Screenplay by Norman Steinberg & Dennis Palumbo.
Story by Dennis Palumbo Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway - 10 December, 1992 (37 perfs)
Synopsis
A classic farce with a heart - and fencing - this adaptation
of the film introduces Benjy Stone, a naive young television writer during
the Golden Age of live 50s US television, to Alan Swann, a hard drinking,
swash-buckling movie star from Hollywood. Assignment: keep the star sober
for his guest spot on a live show, learn some lessons about life and love
and, of course, get the girl. Simple.
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Musical Numbers:
- Funny
- The Duck Joke
- The Gospel According to King
- If the World Were Like the Movies
- Larger Than Life
- The Lights Come Up
- Manhattan
- Maxford House
- My Favourite Year
- Naked in the Bethesda Fountain
- Professional Showbusiness Comedy
- Rookie In the Ring
- Shut Up and Dance
- Twenty Million People
- Waldorf Suite
- Welcome to Brooklyn
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Cast:
8 men, 5 women, chorus
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Instrumentation:
Reed 1 (piccolo/flute/clarinet/alto sax), Reed II (flute/clarinet/bass
clarinet/alto sax), Reed III (oboe/cor anglais/clarinet/tenor sax), Reed
IV (flute/clarinet/bass clarinet/baritone sax/ bassoon), horn, Trumpet
I (trumpet/flugelhorn), Trumpet II (trumpet/piccolo trumpet), Trumpet
III (trumpet/flugelhorn), 2 trombones, 2 percussion, Keyboard I (piano/synthesizer),
Keyboard II (synthesizer), 3 violins, viola, cello, double bass
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Discography:
Original
Cast recording - RCA Victor 09026-61617-2
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