Two By Two
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Music
By Richard Rodgers
Book by Peter Stone
Lyrics
By Martin Charnin
Based on the play "The Flowering Peach" by Clifford Odets
A Delightful
Musical/Comedy/Drama of Noah and His Family and Their Trials and Tribulations
Before, During and After the Flood.
Written
in 1970, it originally starred Danny Kaye as Noah, and Madeline Kahn as Goldie,
Noah’s son Ham’s love interest. It
is the comic retelling of the biblical story with a message for today’s
audiences, to treat each other with respect and love your family even though
there are times of discord.
Noah
starts off as a doddering 600 year old man, and is changed into a ninety year
old man. Noah questions the Lord in
“Why Me”, then he kicks up his heels at his joyous transformation in
“Ninety Again”. He sings to his
wife Esther that she is the only one he has loved in “You”, and after he has
disobeyed the Lord, he sings to her his most poignant song, “Hey Girlie”.
Noah’s wife, Esther, gives advice to
her children and their wives when she sings her “An Old Man” song.
Noah
and Esther’s oldest son Shem is the tightwad of the family and is married to
Leah who screams on a regular basis, in part, because she can’t seem to get
anyone to remember her name.
The
middle son Ham is a loafer and a womanizer who ends up ditching one wife for
another. Ham doubts his father’s
sanity. His love interest Goldie,
is a sexy, golden girl (dancing girl) who works at the Golden Ram.
The youngest son Japeth, is the philosophical one who worries about the people left behind. He sings the wonderfully touching, “Something, Somewhere” about his search for the meaning of life, “Poppa Knows Best” with Noah and his two brothers while they have a comic argument about a rudder for the boat and “I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You”, where at last, he admits his love for his brother Ham’s first wife Rachel.
NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS:
“A musical to be loved, to be cherished… it moved me profoundly…
beguiling melodies… absorbing libretto… who wants a conventional
song-and-dance show with such as this around?”
ASSOCIATED
PRESS:
“One of Rodgers’ finest musicals… a show for anyone… rich in
comedy, full of melody and that rare ingredient that touches your heart.”
Produced by special arrangement with The Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatre Library -
229 West 28th Street - 11th Floor - New York, NY 10001
Friday, February 11, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 12, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Friday, February 18, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Ticket Prices $10.00 Senior/Student & $12.00 Adult
This
production replaces the originally scheduled "Rodgers & Hart - A
Celebration"