Admirable Bashville, The
George Bernard Shaw
Bashville in Love
by Michael Valenti, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Marowitz
Synopsis
Chosen as the best new musical of the year by the Dallas Morning News, this adaptation of Shaw's burlesque masterpiece employs the sprightly style of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
The antics of the agile butler to derail the romance between his aristocratic mistress and a prizefighter unfold with wit and verbal dexterity while rendering Shaw's blank verse in dashing prose that is more natural to modern audiences.
Press Reviews
"Supple lyrics and nimble staging demonstrate the enduring appeal of Shaw.... Valenti's score... has a multiple personality all its own."
— The Forth Worth Star Telegram
"An amusing affair... maintains the right comic attack for Bashville: stiff upper lip and light on its feet. And not leading with its chin so much as with its tongue in cheek."
— The Dallas Morning News
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Cashel Byron |
| Mellish |
| Adelaide Gisborne |
| Lucian |
| Bashville |
| Cetewato |
| Lord Worthington |
| Paradise |
| Policeman / Maid |
| Lydia Carew |
Publication
Bashville in Love is a play written by Michael Valenti and published by Concord Theatricals .
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