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NICK OLCOTT |
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Plays by Nick Olcott |
Cosi fan tutte Goes Hollywood | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Sep 2009 | |||||
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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 | #103444 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | a pocket version' of Mozart's opera, adapted by Nick Olcott | |||||
Synopsis: | Cosi an irreverent comedy about women's infidelity, contains some of the most beautiful music in the opera literature and was banned for its immorality in Mozart's time. Conductor Victoria Gauheading a chamber ensemble-and director Olcott lead a superb cast of Washington DC's finest young singers, all of whom perform frequently for and with the In Series: Philip Bender as Randy [Ferrando], Terry Eberhardt as Elmo [Guglielmo], Mary Gresock as Florrie [Fiodiligi], Bryan Jackson as Mr. Fonso [Don Alfonso], Tara McCredie as Dorrie [Dorabella], and Randa Rouweyha as Tina [Despina]. Olcott's adaptation, set in 1929 Hollywood, imagines the sisters as aspiring starlets, their fiances as a vaudeville duo, the conniving Fonso as a Hollywood producer's audition appointments person and Tina [Despina] as a somewhat jaded starlet who has her own reasons for befriending the sisters. | |||||
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Love Potion #1/The Elixir of Love/LElisir DAmore | ||
| 1st Produced: | GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th St NW, Washington, DC. | Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #133202 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | opera adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Adapted with dialogue and libretto rewritten by Nick Olcott; Based on Donizettis Italian comic opera LElisir DAmore and on the Italian libretto by Felice Romani | |||||
Synopsis: | Donizetti's comic opera gets a different look! Director Nick Olcott sets his cool English adaptation in a DC high school in the 1950's. Will math nerd Nemorino win his beloved Adina over stiff competition from "bad-boy"Belcore? With a little help from school entrepreneur Dulcamara's love potion, anything is possible! | |||||
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