Showlist S
 SOMETHING'S
AFOOT
A Murder/Mystery Musical in 2 acts: Book, Music and Lyrics by James
McDonald, David Vos and Robert Gerlach. Additional music by Ed Linderman.
Lyceum Theatre Broadway - 27 May, 1976 (61 perfs)
Synopsis
Scored for eight instruments (but can be performed with one piano) this
play is a musical spoof of the whodunnit genre which takes a strong satirical
poke at Agatha Christie murder mysteries as well as at many musical styles
of past years. Ten people are stranded in an isolated English country
estate during a raging thunderstorm. One by one they are picked off by
cleverly fiendish devices. The bodies begin to pile up in the library
as the survivors frantically race to discover the identity and motivation
of the cunning culprit.
An engaging, funny, refreshing and original musical." New
York Post
The Cast :
Casting for the play is six men and four women
Lettie
Flint
Clive
Hope Langdon
Dr. Grayburn
Nigel Rancour
Lady Grace Manley-Prowe
Colonel Gillweather
Miss Tweed
Geoffrey
Orchestration
Trombone, Banjo, Trumpet, Bass, Reed 1, Reed 2, Percussion 1 and
2, but may be done with one piano
Chorus books on hire only |
Musical Numbers:
- A Marvellous Weekend - Company except Geoffrey
- Something's Afoot - Company except Geoffrey
- Carry On - Miss Tweed, Lady Grace, Lettie, Hope Langdon
- I Don't Know Why I Trust You But I Do - Hope Langdon, Geoffrey
- The Man With the Ginger Moustache - Lady Grace
- Suspicious - Entire Company
- Legal Heir - Nigel Rancour
- You Fell Out Of the Sky - Hope Langdon
- Dinghy - Flint, Lettie
- I Owe It All - Miss Tweed, Hope Langdon, Geoffrey
- New Day - Geoffry, Hope Langdon, Choir
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Scenes & Settings
The action takes place during the late spring
of 1935 at Rancour's Retreat, a country estate in the English Lake District.
- Act 1: The Entrance Hall of Rancour's Retreat
- Act 2: The same, immediately following
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