A Doll's Life
by Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Larry Grossman

Broadway
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Highlights

120 mins 19th Century Expandable Casting Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes

Synopsis

1994 Revised Version. Revived by The York Theatre Company to acclaim, this reworking of the original Broadway script and score puts this hauntingly beautiful show within the reach of smaller producing groups.

Thirteen actors double in several roles and two pianos create the sights and sounds of 19th-century Norway as Nora, Ibsen’s heroine from A Doll's House , tries to make her way in a male-dominated society after she slams the door on her former life.

Press Reviews

"We can now appreciate the beauties in the score and in the sharp, sometimes uncharacteristically hard-edged lyrics."

— The New York Times

"Changes pay off handsomely… Grossman’s sophisticated score has grown with age."

— New York Newsday

Characters

Character
NORA (Nansen)TORVALD HELMERTRAIN CONDUCTOROTTO BERNICK

musician

HAMSUN

owner of a restaurant

JOHAN BLECKER

lawyer

ERIC DIDRICKSON

business giant

DR. BERG

well to do doctor

GUSTAFSON

successful businessman

PETERSON

opera conductor

ASTRID KLEMNACHT

an opera diva

MULLER

the cannery foreman

SELMA

cannery worker, later Nora's personal maid

JAILERJACQUELINE LE BEAU

a young Frenchwoman

HUGO ZETTERLING

coal industrialist

KLOSTER

lumber baron

THE AMBASSADOR, LARS GRUNBORG

Norway's Ambassador to England

CAMILLA FORRESTER

a beautiful actress

Videos

Rehearsal clips from A DOLL'S LIFE: the musical

Publication

ISBN-13 9780573695445
ISBN-10 057369544X

A Doll's Life is a play written by Adolph Green and published by Concord Theatricals .

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