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Full-Length Musical, Drama / 5w, 6m plus ensemble
Book by Thomas Meehan and Chris Curtis Music and Lyrics by Chris Curtis
Chaplin is based on the real-life story of Charlie Chaplin, the iconic film actor, writer, producer and director. The musical spans the comic’s entire career, from Chaplin’s first performance as a child in 19th-century London to his tearful acceptance of an honorary Academy Award in 1972.
Chaplin is based on the real-life story of Charlie Chaplin, the iconic film actor, writer, producer and director. The new musical spans the comic’s entire career, from Chaplin’s first performance as a child in 19th-century London to his tearful acceptance of an honorary Academy Award in 1972. The show documents the beloved actor’s rise to fame and the people who shaped his life, including his mother Hannah, his older brother Sydney, his fourth wife Oona O’Neill and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. The musical dramatizes the making of Chaplin’s legendary films, including The Kid, The Circus, Modern Times and The Great Dictator as well as his turbulent childhood, frenzied love life and political beliefs.
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Chaplin debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, CA on 19 September 2010. It then premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 21 August 2012.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN – After surviving a poverty-stricken and difficult childhood he turned luck into skill and skill into unprecedented opportunity and success. He ages from late teens to late 40’s as he displays unmatched talent on the vaudeville stage, in Keystone pictures and as producer, director and star of his own film studio. HANNAH CHAPLIN – Charlie’s mother. She is the source of his first inspiration as well as his greatest humiliation. YOUNG CHARLIE – He sings, dances and suffers great sorrow when he returns to his mother after getting out of the County Home to find she no longer recognizes him. He later plays Jackie Coogan, the famous child actor who co-starred in “The Kid” with Chaplin and the Usher. SYDNEY CHAPLIN – Charlie’s brother, performing partner, and business manager. He sticks by Charlie through thick and thin, through marriages and women far too young and through political upheavals and exile. ALF REEVES – Clever, intuitive, fields phone calls and starlet requests brilliantly—and knows Charlie sometimes better than Chaplin knows himself. MACK SENNETT – The master of his Keystone universe; the rather arrogant yet perfectly knowledgeable creator of a factory of short, slapstick films. HEDDA HOPPER – A mediocre actress-turned notorious gossip columnist who has made it her personal mission to expose Charlie as a womanizing, cheating, communist foreigner who is making too much money on American shores. OONA O’NEILL – Wannabe actress who meets Charlie when she turns up late for an audition. Shortly thereafter, she gives up her aspirations for a career in Hollywood and becomes the first woman to appreciate Charlie for who and not what he is. Mr. Karno Usher Mildred Harris Joan Barry Ensemble – Londoners, Music Hall Patrons, Film Crew, Starlets, Reports, Hollywood Elite
Thomas Meehan (1929-2017) won the 2003 Tony Award co-writing the book for Hairspray as well as the 2001 Tony Award for co-writing the book for The Producers. He received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book of Annie, his first Broadway show, and later wrote the b ...