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Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w, 7m
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin Book by George S. Kaufman Adapted by Mark Bedard
At Cocoanut Manor, the service stinks but the gags are four-star in this Marx Brothers romp featuring an Irving Berlin score.
Groucho owns a bum hotel in Florida and peddles dubious real estate to gullible Northerners seeking a place in the sun. He's after a rich society dame, who's after an eligible match for her daughter, who's in love with the hotel's head clerk. Trouble rolls in with the tide when the other Marxes arrive and mama's eligible match turns out to be anything but. Mark Bedard's adaptation of The Cocoanuts premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2014 and is designed for a small cast of 12.
"Fish fly. Teacups soar. Doors slam and puns fall like rain. Welcome back, Marx Brothers... a delirious jalopy of awful jokes, brilliant physical comedy and caustic improvisations with a cackling audience.” – David Stabler, The Oregonian
“Uproariously hilarious... a side-splitting laughter based on the Marx Brothers classic 1930 film, the bros are back and creating more wacky joy in Cocoanuts.” – Lee Juillerat, Herald and News “Amid the mayhem are Irving Berlin's gorgeous songs, including the beloved ‘Always’... If there's a criticism at all, it's that it is nearly impossible to hear all of the clever lines penned by George S. Kaufman, the Marx Brothers and Bedard: The audience is laughing just too dang much.” – Cathy Noah, Ashland Daily Tidings “It is, in fact, one of the funniest and most satisfying evenings of entertainment I’ve experienced at [Oregon Shakespeare Festival].” – Alan “Rosey” Rosenberg, Ashland Play Reviews “The perfect amount of classy, quirky comedy... Don’t blink, or else you may miss a knee-slapping uproar.” – Emily Havens, The Spectrum, July 08, 2016 “The Cocoanuts so gleefully demonstrates, we don’t need the real Marx Brothers to generate the kind of merry mayhem that made them movie legends.” – Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review Journal
1. "Overture" - Shimmer Choir, Trio: Nate, Trixie & Coco 2. "The Clerk" - Jamison & Trio 3. "The Guests" - Jamison, Penelope, Mrs. Potter & Trio 4. "The Bell Hop" - Jamison, Harvey, Mrs. Potter, Polly, Penelope & Trio 5. "My Family Reputation" - Polly, Jamison & Trio 6. "A Hit With The Ladies" - Hammer & Penelope 7. "Lucky Boy" - Chico, Hammer, Harpo, Nate, Jamison & Male Band Members 8. "A Little Bungalow" - Jamison, Polly & Trio 9. "Reprise: A Little Bungalow" - Hammer 10. "Florida By The Sea" - Jamison, Hammer & Trio 11. "Heavenly Lot 26" - Trio 12. "Finale Act One" - Polly & Trio 13. "Five O'Clock Clock Tea" - Mrs. Potter, Hammer, Chico & Harpo 14. "Always" - Polly & Jamison 15. "Yes Sit, That's My Baby" - Jamison, Chico, Hammer, Mrs. Potter & Hennessy 16. "Guilty Face" - Hammer 17. "Everyone In The World Is Doing The Charleston" - All except Hennessy 18. "Tango Melody" - Trio, Penelope, Harvey & Mrs. Potter 19. "The Tale Of A Shirt" - Hennessey, Penelope, Polly & Company 20. "Why Do You Want To Know Why?" - Chico 21. "Ting-A-Ling The Bells'll Ring" - Jamison, Polly & Company 22. "When My Dreams Come True" - Company
Full Orchestration Piano Bass Drums Guitar Violin
14 Libretto 14 Piano-Vocal 1 Drums 1 Guitar 1 Violin 1 Bass
14 Libretto 14 Piano-Vocal
With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasts over 1,000 songs, Irving Berlin (1888-1989) epitomized Jerome Kern’s famous maxim that “Irving Berlin has no place in American music – he is American music.” Berlin wrote scores to 13 Broadway musicals, ...
George S. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh in 1889. During his early career as a reporter and drama critic , he began to write for the theatre. For 40 years, beginning in 1921 with the production of Dulcy, there was rarely a year without a Kaufman play — usually written in coll ...
by George S. Kaufman, Irv...
George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin
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