Bashville in Love

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Cast Size

2w, 7m

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Summary

Chosen as the best new musical of the year by the Dallas Morning News, this adaptation of Shaw's burlesque masterpiece employs the sprightly style of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. The antics of the agile butler to derail the romance between his aristocratic mistress and a prizefighter unfold with wit and verbal dexterity while rendering Shaw's blank verse in dashing prose that is more natural to modern audiences.

Keywords

LYDIA CAREW
CASHEL BYRON
MELLISH
ADELAIDE GISBORNE
LUCIAN
BASHVILLE
CETEWATO
LORD WORTHINGTON
PARADISE
POLICEMAN / MAID

Cautions
- No Special Cautions

Media

“An amusing affair... maintains the right comic attack for Bashville: stiff upper lip and light on its feet. And not leading with its chin so much as with its tongue in cheek.” – The Dallas Morning News

“Supple lyrics and nimble staging demonstrate the enduring appeal of Shaw.... Valenti's score... has a multiple personality all its own.” – The Forth Worth Star Telegram

“An amusing affair... maintains the right comic attack for Bashville: stiff upper lip and light on its feet. And not leading with its chin so much as with its tongue in cheek.” – The Dallas Morning News

Music

Song Samples

Prelude / The Cuckoo Song

Strange Encounter

Duty, Duty, Duty!

The Idle Rich

The Sport Report

A Bloody Pugilist

Love Duet

Bashville's Lament

Everybody Needs a Squeeze

Love That Doesn't Dare

Civilization

Behold the Champion

The Boxing Bout

A Gentleman at Last

Love's an Endless Battle

Mother Love

A Jolly Finale

ACT 1

1. Prelude
1a. Poor Unwanted Daughter -
2. Strange Encounter - Lydia & Cashel
3. Duty, Duty, Duty - Mellish & Cashel
4. 10. O'Clock - Cashel
5. End of Scene
6. Change of Scene
7. The Idyl Rich - Lydia
8. The Sport Report -
9. A Bloody Pugilist - Cashel
10. A Love Duet - Cashel & Lydia
11. Bashville's Lament - Bashville
12. Change of Scene
13. Everybody Needs Someone to Squeeze - Adelaide & Worthington
14. Change of Scene
15. Bashville's Fantasy
16. Love That Didn't Dare - Lydia & Bashville

ACT 2

17. Act 2 Prelude
18. Civilization - Cetewayo & Chorus
19. Behold, The Champion - Cashel & All
20. The Boxing Bout - Cashel
21. The Great "Make Over"
22. A Gentleman At Last - Lydia
23. Mother Love - Adelaide & four Men
24. Fanfares
25. A Jolly Finale - All

Reed 1 (Piccolo & Flute)
Reed 2 (Clarinet & Alto Sax)
Horn
Trumpet
Trombone
Harp
Percussion (Drum Set, Cymbal, Tom-Tom, Triangle, Woodblock, Ratchet, Orch. Bells, Cowbell, Chimes)
Timpani
Violin 1
Violin 2
Viola
Cello
Bass

Orchestra Size Piano Only

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10 Piano-Vocal
1 Reed 1
1 Reed 2
1 Horn
1 Trumpet
1 Trombone
1 Harp
1 Percussion
1 Timpani
1 Violin 1
1 Violin 2
1 Viola
1 Cello
1 Bass

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10 Piano-Vocal

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Authors

Charles Marowitz

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established hims ...

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Michael Valenti

Michael Valenti composed, arranged and conducted the music for the Emmy Award-winning television series A Walk through the 20th Century. For CBS radio he shared the Peabody Award for Newsmark.

His Broadway credits include Oh, Brother!, Clothes for a Summer Hotel (Tennessee Wil ...

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Bashville in Love