Overview

This dynamic, laugh-a-minute musical is a hilarious takeoff on American films from the 1930s through the 1950s. The principals play a variety of characters, including a Cagney/Bogart/Dean/Brando type and a Fonda/Stewart/Peck/Perkins type, along with reincarnations of Bette Davis, Loretta Young and Eve Arden. The musical careens from one Hollywood genre to another – including the silent tearjerker, slum idyll, gangster epic, courtroom melodrama, chain gang social justice thriller, screwball comedy, Busby Berkeley backstage musical and war propaganda canteen musical – managing to parody Casablanca, Citizen Kane and a variety of minor genres along the way.

Keywords

• Theatre/Entertainment Industry