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The following three scripts were created for an evening’s light entertainment (and thus could be ideal for fund-raising purposes). They originally involved just two or three actors (plus for If This Be Love an extremely versatile singer and in A Midsummer Night’s Dream a choir) and a small chamber orchestra. However, the casting scope is infinitely variable both in terms of actors and musicians plus singers.
- The Four Seasons is built around Vivaldi’s beloved composition and interweaves Shakespeare’s reflective wit and insights on Spring, Summer, Fall (with the highlight here being a debate between Macbeth’s Porter and Falstaff on the pros and cons of drink) and Winter.
Original casting requirements: two actors and chamber orchestra - A Midsummer Night’s Dream incorporates Mendelssohn’s enchanting music (plus a little taste of Gustav Holst) and special moments from Shakespeare’s play. If cast as initially shaped for just three actors highlights include Oberon ‘magicing’ himself as Demetrius, Puck zapping himself as Lysander, and Hermia chasing herself offstage as Helena!
Original casting requirements: three actors, chamber orchestra, and choir - If This Be Love incorporates text from twenty-nine of Shakespeare’s plays plus seven sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Passionate Pilgrim and five other poems, all exploring the joyful delightful heights and the anguished deep pitfalls of being in love, interspersed with the music of, amongst others, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Mozart, together with the world’s most romantic songs from the pens of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Puccini and Franz Lehár, ending with Verdi’s delightful Cats Duet.
Original casting requirements: three actors, chamber orchestra, and (female) singer
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