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KAINE RIGGAN
(1974 - )Nationality: USA
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Riggan's first musical comedy, Could It Be Love, was a hit in the Nashville market selling out three seasons at both the Nashville Dinner Theatre and the prestigious Ryman Auditorium. It starred Grammy winners Jeannie Seely and Helen Cornelius. With both score and book penned by Riggan, the show takes place in Senior Center in Grassy Creek, North Carolina where two attractive 50+ ladies run into their childhood sweetheArts at an unexpected time in their lives. Critics called it "well written and well performed" and "an absolute delight". His second, a collaboration with several Nashville songwriters including country superstars RAndy Travis & T. Graham Brown, introduces us to an unlikely mix of individuals who are "snowed in" on Christmas Eve at a Waffle House. A Scattered, Smothered & Covered Christmas one set, the opportunity for children in the cast and an incredible score of country flavored tunes. . . all part of a producer's formula for success. Formerly the Director of Performing Arts for the Tennessee Arts Commission, Riggan founded an organization called the Senior Center for the Arts in 2004. Its income generating Arts programs, such as the Nashville Dinner Theatre, provide funds for free and affordable classes in music, dance, Theatre and art for Tennesseans over fifty. By 2008, Riggan's program has already surpassed many other older Arts organizations in its market in both attendance and number of performances. the Nashville Business Journal ranked it one of Nashville's Top 25 Tourist Attractions and 3 among Nashville's performing Arts organizations. Kaine has also directed over 32 productions including such stars as Joyce Dewitt (TV's Three's Company) and Richard Moll (TV's Night Court).
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Could It Be Love Scattered, Smothered & Covered Christmas, ACould It Be Love
Synopsis:
the members of the Grassy Creek Senior Center decide to raise money by mounting an all senior version of Grease. In the process, the two main characters, Mabel Dubois (an aging regional theatre actress and former first lady of Louisiana) and Eve Harris (a devout Christian woman who survived an abusive marriage) reunite with their childhood sweethearts. their best friend Judy Johnson (a half-witted housewife) overhears a conversation and gets the "wrong idea" about the relationship between the ladies' two male love interests, making for a hilarious romp filled with an exciting score and fabulous roles for actors over 50. For performance rights, visit www.NashvilleStages.com
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1st Produced:
Nashville Dinner theatre 2004
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Nashville Stages
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Genre:
Musical Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: -
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Synopsis:
Set in a Waffle House on Christmas Eve, our narrator, a waitress named Rita, introduces us to her "regulars" and the colorful third shift staff. We discover late in ACT 1 that Rita and all of her regulars are dead and unseen by the rest of the third shift. the Waffle House, with its 24-7 schedule is where the spirits go to get their "assignments" of deeds they have to do to even the score with the the next level. Rita's last assignment is to fix her widower and the Father of her school-age children up with a lonely middle-age customer in the restaurant that night This could be her final assignment. . .With a score by a team of Nashville's big hitting songwriters including country superstars Randy Travis & T. Graham Brown, this show is a guaranteed hit and available for licensing at www.NashvilleStages.com
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1st Produced:
Nashville Dinner theatre 2005
Organisations:
Nashville Stages
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 8 Other: Children in cast
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