[ Billy Van Zandt and Chorus]
Merrily We Dance and Sing (or “The Naughty Boy”)
SYNOPSIS
Slapstick Musical Farce
11 m, 4 f
Merrily We Dance and Sing is a slapstick, madcap musical farce. A small-town community theater performs an original operetta The Naughty Boy, when an escaped serial killer gets loose in the theater – and eventually into the show – forcing the actors to improvise new plot lines, rewrite dialogue, and take the opportunity to invent their own happy endings. Imagine “Gilbert & Sullivan Meet the Marx Brothers.” With book & lyrics by Van Zandt & Milmore and original music by Van Zandt, Milmore & Ed Alton. Includes the songs “I Am First an Englishman,” “Once Upon a Time,” the near-impossible tongue twister show stopper “It’s All in the Chase” and “They Call Me Sweet Carnation (Because I Love to Smell).”