Music by Eric RockwellLyrics by Joanne BogartBook by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is 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, from Rodgers & Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. The basic 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, set in Kansas in August, complete with a dream ballet; a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work; a Jerry Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from Puccini; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speakeasy in Chicago. This comic valentine to musical theatre was the longest-running show in the York Theatre Company's 35-year history before moving off-Broadway.
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Eric Rockwell is an award-winning writer and composer of several critically-acclaimed musicals.
A 2004 Drama Desk nominee for best music, Eric composed the score and co-wrote the book with Joanne Bogart to The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) which, after two years of perfor ...
Joanne Bogart began her collaboration with Eric Rockwell at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. For The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), published by Samuel French, they were honored with a 2004 Drama Desk nomination for Best Musical, as well as individual nomi ...
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