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Michael Rheault
Dames at Sea
by George Haimsohn, Robin Miller, Jim Wise
Highlights
120 mins 1930s Expandable Casting Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes
Awards & Recognition
Drama Desk Award Outer Critics Circle
Winner! 1968 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical Winner! 1968 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics Nominee: 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Revival of a Musical
Synopsis
A long-running off-Broadway hit, which brought stardom to newcomer Bernadette Peters, this delightfully campy show revels in nostalgia for Hollywood musicals of the '30s.
Sweet little Ruby from faraway Hometown, U.S.A. has come to the big city make her mark on Broadway.
Who should she chance to meet but another boy from Hometown, U.S.A.: Dick, a sailor, who also has ambitions as a songwriter.
Ruby begins in the chorus, and by the end of the day, in true Hollywood fashion, Dick saves her doomed Broadway show with a smash tune and Ruby becomes a star on the deck of a battleship, which just happens to be passing by.
Selected as "Best Musical of the Year" by Time, Newsweek and the Outer Critics Circle, Dames at Sea is a non-stop ride of romance, laughs and musical delights.
Press Reviews
"Dames At Sea is a dance-driven delight... prepare to be thoroughly charmed."
— USA Today
"[A] perky homage to 1930s movie musicals... A sweet candy morsel."
— The Hollywood Reporter
"An instant hit!"
— United Press International
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Joan A big-hearted chorus girl. |
| Hennessey The director. |
| Ruby A young, brigh-eyed chorus girl from Utah. |
| Dick A handsome sailor who happens to be a great songwriter. |
| Lucky A sailor who used to date Joan. |
| The Captain The ship's captain and Mona's former lover back in Florida. |
| Chorus |
| Mona Kent A tempermental Broadway diva. |
Videos
Dames at Sea – Broadway Revival Teaser
Publication
Dames at Sea is a play written by George Haimsohn and published by Concord Theatricals .
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