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ALEX BARATTA |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Alex received the Best Musician award twice in high school in the 1980s, fuelling a growing interest in this area. He wrote his first song at 17, entitled I Wonder, which was followed from 1989 - 1992 by a great deal of musical composition output in several areas: musicals, instrumentals and dedication songs. The musicals include a collection of Broadway-esque melodies (Love Doesn't Have to Be a Stranger, The Love That I've Been Waiting For), jazz (I'm Having an Affair, The Greatest Director You've Ever Seen), ballads (The Angel's Song), rock (Four Play) and country (Back to Where I Came from). Alex's first musical, Love from Above, was performed on December 1st 1991 at The Mayflower Club in North Hollywood, California, and again at the club on December 6th, 1998. The dedication songs largely revolve around two main entries: The Man Everybody Wants and Dear Mr. Sellers. The former song is a 007 theme tune and the latter a dedication song to the late, great actor, Peter Sellers. Desmond Llewelyn, the actor who portrayed the character of 'Q' in the Bond series from 1963 - 1999, said that the 007 song was "very much in the Bond tradition". The song's music video was also performed at several Bond conventions, in locations such as New Orleans (2000), London (2000) and Long Beach, California (2003). The Sellers song was adopted by the Peter Sellers Appreciation Society in 2000, with an interview between Alex and society chairperson Dimitris Verionis published in the September 2002 issue of the society magazine. Sellers biographer Ed Sikov described the song as "accurate. . .touching and sweet-tempered" and Burt Kwouk, who played Cato in the Pink Panther series, further described the song as "very nice".
Plays by Alex Baratta
Between Two Wars | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #67623 | |||
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Genre: | romantic wartime musical Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | American GIs, German soldiers, German villagers, war orphans, Paul's son and grandson | |||||
Notes: | Music and lyrics by Alex Baratta. This musical was conceived and written out of a burning desire to bring a World War II romance, in the style of Hanover Street (1978) or Yanks (1979), to the musical theater. | |||||
Synopsis: | An African-American GI, on the run from the Nazis in World War II Germany, is taken in by a young German widow. She agrees to help the GI and against all odds, they fall in love and plan to escape the country together. However, the GI realizes that he is trapped between two enemies: the Nazis, and racism within the ranks of his own army, hence the title of the musical. Sample songs include Who Is This Man?, The Hometown I Remember and The GI Song. | |||||
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Love From Above | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mayflower Club, North Hollywood | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67624 | |||
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Genre: | Romantic musical fantasy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
Notes: | Music and lyrics by Alex Baratta. The musical was performed at The Mayflower Club in North Hollywood, California in 1991 and 1998. The tagline reads A Lesson in Love'. | |||||
Synopsis: | A lonely man and woman are brought together by an angel, who appears in a dream they share, urging them to write love letters which describe their perfect love. The letters are then delivered by the angel to both of them. Sample songs include The Angel's Song, What a Time We'll Have and If Only He Knew Me. The show was videotaped at both its performances. | |||||
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Only in LA | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #67625 | |||
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Genre: | musical satire about life in LA Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music and lyrics by Alex Baratta. With the exception of Leonard Goldberg the movie director, the characters are mostly without names, to reflect a certain anonymous and faceless' quality to them. | |||||
Synopsis: | Various inhabitants of Los Angeles take to the stage to sing about their own unique 'LA experience', to include the New Age spiritual guru (I'm Starting a New Religion), the Beverly Hills socialite (I'm Having an Affair), the aspiring high school garage band (Four Play) and the big shot movie director (The Greatest Director You've Ever Seen), to name a few. | |||||
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