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Dames at Sea
Dames at Sea
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Author: George Haimsohn and Robin Miller Music by: Jim Wise Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 62 Pub. Date: 2017 ISBN-10: 0573680108 ISBN-13: 9780573680106 Cast Size: 3 women, 4 men (flexible casting, room for extras)
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About
the Play:
Dames at Sea is a full-length musical comedy with book and
lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by
Jim Wise. Ruby steps off a
bus from Utah and is immediately cast in the chorus of a Broadway
show. When the theatre is forced to close, Ruby's songwriting sailor
boyfriend persuades the Captain of his ship to allow the show to move
on deck. Voila! Dames at sea! When the show's lead gets seasick, Ruby
may have to go on for her. Will Ruby come back a star? Do you need to
ask?
Dames at Sea is a campy
show based on the Broadway and
Hollywood musicals of the
1930s
and 1940s
and tells the story of a struggling Broadway production and an
understudy rising to
stardom. It's big-time New York, into which sweet little Ruby from
faraway Utah has come to make it big on Broadway. Who should she
chance to meet but another boy from Utah: Dick, a sailor, who also
has ambitions as a songwriter. On Opening Night, when they learn that
their theater is being demolished, Ruby and the cast, with the help
of Dick and some adoring sailors, make plans to perform the show on a
naval battleship, which just happens to be passing by. Dick saves her
doomed Broadway show with a smash tune, as Ruby becomes a star on the
deck of a battleship. One of the most unique musicals ever created,
the original production of Dames at Sea
at the now legendary Caffe
Cino pulled off the feat of
creating a magnificent musical extravaganza experience on an eight
foot by eight foot platform with a tight, multi-talented cast of six
actors playing the leads and
also playing
the singing and dancing chorus. It's filled with songs, tap-dancing
and romance from start to finish. It is suitable for general
audiences.
Dames at Sea premiered in
1966 in a one-act Off-Off Broadway production at Greenwich Village's
historic Caffe Cino. Originally set to run for two weeks, it
ran for a dozen more, starring a young and largely unknown Bernadette Peters as Ruby.
She returned to the role
in 1968, to star in an
expanded, two-act Off-Broadway production that opened at the Bouwerie
Lane Theatre before moving to the Theatre de Lys, running
for 575 performances and
launching
the career of
multiple Tony award winner Bernadette Peters, one of
Broadway's greatest stars. Selected as "Best Musical of the
Year" by Time, Newsweek, and the Outer Critics Circle, it
quickly became a staple of regional high
school, college, and
community theatres, finally reaching Broadway in 2015 to another
round of rave reviews.
Cast: 3 women, 4 men (flexible casting, room for extras)
What people say:
"A winner! A gem of a
musical." — New York Times
"An instant hit." —
United Press International
About the Playwright:
George Haimsohn (1925-2003) and Robin Miller
(1928-2010) are best known for co-writing the book and libretto of
the popular 1960s Off-Broadway musical Dames at Sea. It was
their only collaboration. Haimsohn's other musicals included Now Zing
and Johnny American. Miller's other musicals included Peg, Radio
Times and Vanity Fair. Music for Dames at Sea was composed by
Jim Wise (1919-2000) an American musical composer and English
professor who co-wrote the play Olaf Who Never Walked But Always
Danced.
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