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A... My Name Is Alice

Musical Revue / Cabaret, Comedy  /  5w

Conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd

Julianne Boyd, Joan Micklin Silver, David Zippel, Doug Katsaros, June Siegel

This slick and lively revue created by a wide variety of comedy writers, lyricists and composers offers a marvelous kaleidoscope of contemporary women. Sophisticated, bawdy, funny and insightful, the twenty numbers portray friends, rivals, sisters and even members of an all women's basketball team.

A... My Name Is Alice

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w
  • Duration
    Duration
    75 Minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! Outer Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical
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Summary
Alice enjoyed a long run at the Village Gate Off Broadway. This slick and lively revue created by a wide variety of comedy writers, lyricists and composers offers a marvelous kaleidoscope of contemporary women. Sophisticated, bawdy, funny and insightful, the twenty numbers portray friends, rivals, sisters and even members of an all women's basketball team.

History
Originally produced by the Women's Project at the American Place Theatre in New York at the Village Gate on November 2, 1983. It was directed by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd. 
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Keywords
Performing Groups

WOMAN 1
WOMAN 2
WOMAN 3
WOMAN 4
WOMAN 5

The 5 women in the production will assume all of the roles within each sketch. 

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Setting Various locations. The present.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Duration 75 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

"Delightful...The music and lyrics are so sophisticated that they can carry the weight of one act plays." - The New York Times

"A boodle of laughs." - The New York Post

"Rates an A!." - The New York Daily News

"Slick as can be." - The Village Voice

Music

Song Samples

All Girl Band
At My Age
Trash
Welcome to Kindergarten, Mrs. Johnson
I Sure Like the Boys
The Portrait
Bluer Than You
Pretty Young Men
The French Song
Honeypot
6 Piano-Conductor

1 Reed (Flute, Clarinet, Tenor & Baritone Saxophones)
1 Percussion
  • Musical Style Classic Broadway
  • Vocal DemandsModerate
  • Orchestra Size Small/Combo
  • Chorus Size No Chorus

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Authors

Julianne Boyd

Julianne Boyd

Julianne Boyd is the founder (1995) and Artistic Director of the Barrington Stage Company (BSC) in the Berkshires (MA), where she has directed many productions. This past season she directed two world premieres: Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son, which won the Laurents-H ...

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Joan Micklin Silver

David Zippel

David Zippel

David Zippel is a lyricist and director. His lyrics have won him the Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, two Grammy Award nominations, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. His songs appear on over 25 million CDs around the world, and have been performed by many gr ...

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Doug Katsaros

Doug Katsaros

Doug Katsaros has a lengthy theatre résumé that includes writing the opening theme and special material for the Tony Awards. For Broadway, he conducted Footloose, vocal and dance arranged The Life, orchestrated The Rocky Horror Show, starred as Berger in Hair, and served as ...

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June Siegel

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