Cyrano (musical)

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Cyrano

Original Cast Recording
Music Michael J. Lewis
Lyrics Anthony Burgess
Book Anthony Burgess
Basis Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac
Productions 1973 Broadway

Cyrano is a musical with a book and lyrics by Anthony Burgess and music by Michael J. Lewis.

Based on Edmond Rostand's classic 1897 play of the same name, it focuses on a love triangle involving the large-nosed poetic Cyrano de Bergerac, his beautiful cousin Roxana, and his classically handsome but inarticulate friend Christian de Neuvillette who, unaware of Cyrano's unrequited passion for Roxana, imposes upon him to provide the romantic words he can use to woo her successfully in mid-17th century Paris.

In the early 1960s, David Merrick had announced plans to produce a musical entitled Cyrano with a score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, but nothing came of the project. Burgess had translated the Rostand play for the Guthrie in Minneapolis, and director Michael Langham suggested he adapt it for a musical version. Burgess joined forces with film composer Lewis, replacing dialogue in his play with musical numbers, and the completed work was staged at the Guthrie, again with Langham at the helm.

Following a tryout in Boston's Colonial Theatre and five previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, opened on May 13, 1973 at the Palace Theatre, where it ran for 49 performances. The cast included Christopher Plummer as Cyrano, Leigh Beery as Roxana, and Mark Lamos as Christian, with Tovah Feldshuh making her Broadway debut in two small supporting roles.

Plummer won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance, and Beery was Tony-nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

An original cast recording LP was released by A&M Records in 1973. An original cast recording CD was released by Decca Records in 2005.

In September 1994, an abridged version of the musical made its West Coast preview at The Newport Arts Center in Orange County, California. Directed by Kent Johnson, and starring well known regional actor John Huntington as Cyrano and actress Deirdre McGill (" A Thing Called Love ", " Dead Hollywood Blondes") as Roxanne. One song, "You Have Made Me Love", released on a Broadway standards album sung by Deirdre McGill.


Song list

Act I
  • Cyrano's Nose
  • La France, La France
  • Tell Her
  • From Now Till Forever
  • Bergerac
  • Pocapdedious
  • No, Thank You
  • From Now Till Forever (Reprise)
Act II
  • Roxana
  • It's She and It's Me
  • You Have Made Me Love
  • Thither, Thother, Thide
  • Pocapdedious (Reprise)
  • Paris Cuisine
  • Love Is Not Love
  • Autumn Carol
  • I Never Loved You

Original Broadway Cast

  • Cyrano de Bergerac - Christopher Plummer
  • Roxana - Leigh Beery
  • Christian de Neuvillette - Mark Lamos
  • Le Bret, Captain of the Gascons - James Blendick
  • Montfleury, A Romantic Tragedian - Patrick Hines
  • Count de Guiche, Guardian of Roxana - Louis Turenne
  • Ragueneau, A Baker and Poet - Arnold Soboloff
  • Viscount de Valvert - J. Kenneth Campbell
  • Roxana's Duenna, Sister Marthe - Anita Dangler
  • Pickpocket, Capucine Monk - Geoff Garland
  • Jodelet - Michael Goodwin
  • The Marquis in Red - Alexander Orfaly
  • Vendor - Tovah Feldshuh

References

External links

http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/newport-theatre-arts-center September 1994

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