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Adding Machine: A Musical
Darkly comic and heartbreakingly beautiful, adding Machine, a musical adaptation of elmer Rice's incendiary 1923 play, tells the story of Mr. Zero, who after 25 years of service to his company is replaced by a mechanical adding machine. In a vengeful rage, he murders his boss. an eclectic score gives passionate and memorable voice to this stylish and stylized show, which follows Zero's journey to the afterlife in the elysian Fields where he is met with one last chance for romance and redemption.
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music by Joshua Schmidt; book And lyrics by Jason Loewith And Joshua Schmidt, based on elmer Rices 1923 expressionist play
1st Produced:
Next Theatre Company 2007
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Musical
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: SaTB chorus
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Big Nate
Nate Wright, a detention-riddled sixth grader (and drummer for the greatest garage band in the history of the galaxy, enslave the Mollusk!) hopes to woo beautiful Jenny away from her boyfriend Artur by winning the Nickelodeon, the first prize in his school's Battle of the Bands. But when Artur and Jenny team up with Nate's arch-rival Gina to form the sap-pop band, Rainbows and Ponies, he's gotta take his game to an all-star level. What will he do?
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Based on the comic strip and books by Lincoln Peirce . Book by Jason Loewith with Lincoln Peirce. Lyrics by Christopher Youstra and Jason Loewith . Music by Christopher Youstra
1st Produced:
Adventure Theatre Mtc, Glen Echo Park, 7300 Macarthur Blvd, Glen Echo, Md 03 May 2013
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TYA musical 75 min one act
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War With the Newts
Synopsis:
a race of giant intelligent salamanders is discovered and enslaved
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Written with Justin D M Palmer. Based on "the War With the Newts" by Karel Capek
1st Produced:
Mullady Theatre, Chicago 21 May 2010
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