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Glimmer, Glimmer, And Shine
Warren Leight
Shine!
by Roger Anderson, Richard Seff, Lee Goldsmith
Highlights
Synopsis
Characters: 13 male 6 female.
Various sets.
Winner!
2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Excellence
Winner!
National Music Theatre Network Award!
This charming rags to riches romp with a melodic score follows Ragged Dick Horatio Alger's first best selling hero from penniless bootblack to budding Wall Street entrepreneur.
His adventures bring him face to face with scheming ex convicts vicious comic villians kind benefactor
Press Reviews
"Shine! is one of those wonderful musicals where an audience cares deeply for the hero. Richard Seff’s book and Lee Goldsmith’s lyrics perfectly capture the Horatio Alger spirit… Composer Roger Anderson’s ballads are strikingly beautiful. As for his up-tempo songs, to call each a toe-tapper would only be 10% accurate."
— Peter Filichia, The Star-Ledger
"Solidly constructed, tuneful, consistently diverting. It’s awfully close to the sort of musical that made the form nationally beloved in the Rodgers & Hammerstein era."
— Backstage
"Highly tuneful… a friendly show of considerable good humor."
— Playbill
"A charming, feel-good musical. The work’s tremendous heart and unabashed celebration of Alger’s popular stories are in ample evidence in this appealing musical about the rise from rags to riches."
— Theatermania
"There’s a lot of love here, and the best qualities of Shine! shine through. Go give it a go; at its best it’s refreshing and, dare I say it, even inspiring."
— Nightlife Exchange
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| RICHARD HUNTER “Ragged Dick,” age 16-18. Brash and confident with much charm. Must be exceptional singer-actor. |
| MICKEY M |
| GUIRE Age 15-19. A street kid, tough. Clever, selfish, a wiseguy. |
| HENRY FOSWELL Age 15-17. Hunter’s friend and opposite. Bookish and intelligent, but with no street smarts. |
| GIDEON CHAPIN 40s. Uptight and mean-spirited clerk in charge at Snobden’s store. Conniving and unpleasant. A comic villain. |
| HERBERT HIGGINS 20s-30s. Ambitious but weak underling to Chapin. Slightly hysterical at times. Actor should be up to low comedy. |
| ALLEN CARLISLE Early 40s. Handsome, likable. A diamond in the rough; very wealthy now; was once poor. |
| SILAS SNOBDEN 50s-60s. Proprietor of Snobden, Inc. a haberdashery. Precise and demanding, but fair and not unkind. Could be plump, bald or both. Needs good character singing voice. |
| LUKE GERRISH Late 30s, early 40s. Amoral, cynical, cunning and dangerous. Attractive to women and knows it. Baritone. |
| STACIA-JANE HAUSER Late 20s-early 30s. Attractive, but not necessarily beautiful. Working class background. Intelligent, though not well educated. Soprano or chest. |
| FINOLA MAY MOONEY Late 40s or 50s. Hearty, good-natured, shrewd. And very Irish. |
| ROB CARLISLE Age 8, Carlisle’s son. Bright and self confident, not a brat. |
| MALE ENSEMBLE Man #1, Man #2, Man #3, Man #4 |
| FEMALE ENSEMBLE Woman #1, Woman #2, Woman #3, Woman #4 |
| 3 BUSINESSMEN |
| A STREET VENDOR |
| OFFICER FOY |
| TWO CRONIES Male acquaintances of Luke Gerrish. |
| MARY McHUGH 50s. Irish landlady. Addled, disheveled, ditzy. We like her. Sings in a beery way. |
| MRS. O’MALLEY, MRS. CASSIDY, MRS. O’LEARY Neighborhood women, friends of Mrs. Mooney. |
| MRS. HALLIWELL Stylish woman of 40, oozes charm, is a bit of a snob. |
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2011
Binding Paperback
Pages 120
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573629280
ISBN-10 0573629285
LCCN 2003269953
LCC ML50.A565 S55 2002
DCC 782.140268
Shine! is a American play written by Roger Anderson and published by Samuel French in New York (2011).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle .
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