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110 IN THE SHADE

Buch von N. RICHARD NASH
Musik von HARVEY SCHMIDT
Text von TOM JONES

Nach dem Stück The Rainmaker von N. RICHARD NASH

Deutsche Fassung von CHRISTIAN GUNDLACH
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Photo: 2007 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)

LIZENZANFRAGE

ANSICHTSMATERIAL

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110 IN THE SHADE
​(44 GRAD IM SCHATTEN)

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BESETZUNG
2 Damen
5 Herren
Ensemble
Details siehe unten

SPIELDAUER
2 Stunden
​zzgl. Pause

GENRE
Komödie
​Drama
​Soziale Themen

SPRACHFASSUNGEN
​Englisch
​Deutsch

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DETAILS

ÜBER DAS STÜCK

N. Richard Nash, Harvey Schmidt und Tom Jones beleuchten in dieser musikalischen Adaption von Nashs Bühnenstück "The Rainmaker" Liebe und Hoffnung zur Zeit der großen Depression in den USA.

In der winzigen Stadt Three Point, im heißen und von Dürre geplagten amerikanischen Südwesten, verspricht der reisende Betrüger Bill Starbuck den lokalen Bauern, dass er den dringend benötigten Regen herbeirufen kann. Die alleinstehende Lizzie Curry, deren Annäherungsversuche von Sheriff File zurückgewiesen werden, erblüht, als sie eine romantische Beziehung zu dem charismatischen Fremden eingeht.
 
Zu den musikalischen Nummern gehören Love, Don't Turn Away, Little Red Hat, Simple Little Things, Everything Beautiful Happens At Night und Evenin' Star.

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​PRODUKTIONEN (Auswahl)

Broadway ​Premiere
24. Oktober 1963
Broadhurst Theatre
New York

West End Premiere
08. Februar 1967
Palace Theatre
​London

Deutschspr. Erstaufführung
27. Februar 1971
​Hessisches Staatstheater
​Kassel

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AWARDS & NOMINIERUNGEN

1964 Tony® Awards
Best Original Score - Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (Nominierung)
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical - Inga Swenson (Nominierung)
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical - Will Geer (Nominierung)
Best Direction of a Musical - Joseph Anthony (Nominierung)

2007 Tony® Awards
Best Revival of a Musical (Nominierung)
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical - Audra McDonald (Nominierung)
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical - John Cullum (Nominierung)
Best Orchestrations - Jonathan Tunick (Nominierung)
Best Lighting Design - Christopher Akerlind (Nominierung)

2007 Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Auszeichnung)
Outstanding Actress in a Musical - Audra McDonald (Auszeichnung)

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MUSIK

MUSIKALISCHE NUMMERN

1. AKT​

01
Another Hot Day

02
Lizzie's Comin' Home

03
Love, Don't Turn Away

04
Poker Polka

05
The Hungry Men

06
The Rain Song

07
You're Not Foolin' Me

08
Cinderella

09
Raunchy

10
A Man And A Woman

11
Old Maid

2. AKT​

12
Evenin' Star

13
Everything Beautiful Happens At Night

14
Melisande

15
Simple Little Things

16
Little Red Hat

17
Is It Really Me?

18
Wonderful Music

19
The Rain Song (Reprise)

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HÖRBEISPIELE

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BESETZUNG

ROLLEN

THE CURRY FAMILY

Lizzie Curry – At first glance, she seems a woman who can cope with all the aspects of life. She has the world of materiality under control; she is a good housekeeper; pots and pans, needles and thread – when she touches them, they serve. She knows well where she fits in the family – she is daughter, sister, mother, child – and she enjoys the manifold elements of her position. She has a sure ownership of her own morality, for the tenets of right and wrong are friendly to her – and she is comfortably forthright in living by them. A strong and integral woman in every life function – except one. Here she is, thirty-ish, and no man outside the family has loved her or found her beautiful. And yet, ironically, it is this one unfulfilled part of Lizzie that is the most potentially beautiful facet of the woman – this yearning for romance – this courageous searching for it in the desert of her existence… And if some day a man should find her, he will find a ready woman, willing to give herself with the totality of her rich being.
H.C. Curry – Lizzie’s father. He is in his late fifties, powerfully set, capable, a good man to take store in. But he’s not all prosaic efficiency – there’s a dream in him.
Noah Curry – Lizzie’s older brother. He is somewhat like his father, without H.C.’s imagination. As a matter of fact, he has little imagination at all and would appear to be self-righteous and rigidly opinionated, were it not for his basic decency and his warm yearning to be kind.
Jimmy Curry – Lizzie’s younger brother. In his early twenties but big and broad-shouldered, he looks older than his years until he opens his mouth; then he’s a child. He’s not sure that he’s very bright and this is his great cross. He is filled with inchoate longing.

ANDERE

Bill Starbuck – A big man, lithe, agile – a loud braggart, a gentle dreamer. He carries a short hickory stick – it is his weapon, his pointer, his magic wand, his pride of manhood.
File – The sheriff. He is a lean man, reticent, intelligent, in his late thirties. He smiles wryly at the world and at himself. Perhaps he is a little bitter; if so, his bitterness is leavened by a mischievous humor.
Snookie Updegraff – She is perhaps seventeen, and pretty and pretty, and pretty, and pretty, and pretty. Which is to say she is pretty.

TOWNSPEOPLE OF THREEPOINT

Toby – The middle aged stationmaster
Mrs. Jessen – Fat, middle-aged and good-natured
Phil Mackey – About nineteen
Tommy – A boy of eight
Belinda – A spectacled girl of nine
Geshy Toops – A man in his thirties
Gil Demby – A boy in his teens
Olive Barrow – A pretty girl
Wally Skacks – A boy in his late teens
Maurine Troops – A girl in her twenties
Bo Dollivon – A boy in his twenties
Mr. Curtis – A minister
Wally Skacks – An old man

ENSEMBLE

Other townspeople to dance and sing – of all ages and descriptions, not necessarily – please! – not necessarily all good looking. Real people.​

INSTRUMENTAL-BESETZUNG

Flöte (+ Pic.)
Oboe (+ E.horn)
Reed 1 (Eb Klar., Bb Klar., Sop. Sax) 
Reed 2 (Flöte, Klar.)
Reed 3 (Klar., Bass-Klar.)
Reed 4 (Klar., Fagott, Bar. Sax)
Horn I, II
Trompete I, II, III
Posaune
Percussion I, II
Violine
Viola
Cello
​Bass

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MEDIEN

PHOTOS

Photo: 2007 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Joan Marcus)​

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