Really Rosie

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Really Rosie

Music	Carole King
Lyrics	Maurice Sendak
Book	Maurice Sendak
Productions	1975 Animated TV Special 1980 Off-Broadway

Really Rosie is a musical with a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King.

Based on Sendak's books Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, One was Johnny, Alligators All Around, and The Sign On Rosie's Door, the show, a mainstay of children's theater groups, follows a typical summer day in the life of several neighborhood friends. Self-proclaimed leader Rosie, the sassiest kid on her block of Brooklyn's Avenue P, entertains everyone by directing and starring in an Oscar-winning movie based on the exciting, dramatic, funny (and slightly exaggerated) story of her life.

A 1975 animated television special was directed by Sendak, with King voicing the title character. A soundtrack album is available on the Sony label.

An off-Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch, opened on October 14, 1980, at the Westside Theatre, where it ran for 274 performances.

[edit] Plot

Rosie and the characters from the Nutshell Library of books live on the same block. Rosie puts on the attitude of a famous actress in the process of casting her magnum opus, a movie called Did You Hear What Happened to Chicken Soup based on what she claims to be the true story of the demise of her brother named Chicken Soup. The other kids in the neighborhood all audition for a role in the imaginary film through a musical number in which they sing the books they first appeared in.