I'll Die If I Can't Live Forever
by Joyce Stoner, William Boswell, Karen Johnson

Name: I'll Die If I Can't Live Forever
Brand: Joyce Stoner
SKU: 9780573680700

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Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins 1970s Ensemble Cast Bare Stage/Simple Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Sometimes called "the junior Chorus Line " this is the story of six hopeful actors auditioning to be in a musical revue in New York City at the original Improvisation comedy club.

'The Roommate Beguine,' 'My Place or Yours' and 'I Hate Football,' consider romantic dilemmas, and the group effort, 'Where Would We Be Without Perverts' indicates that the town would lose its color without 'em.

Press Reviews

"The six personable singers march in wearing evening garb. They then become auditioners for a show-within-a-show, simulating two theatre innocents, a couple of roommates, and an unlucky married couple. Before the show ends, they and Miss Stoner have merrily satirized the aches, pains and dreams of young theater hopefuls, sidelined by love and sex and the everyday theatre of life in New York and more... The tonic effect is marvelous. Fresh as a daisy, sharp as a tack and as funny as it is fast, this 90-minute show is the best mini-musical in town"
— The New York Times

"The subject matter takes digs at this neighborhood in which the cafe is located and takes a look at present morals and mores and finds both worthy of comment."
— Variety

"Wholesome and charming and thoroughly good natured ... clever."
— New York Daily News

"She'll come up with lines like 'roommate, dustpan-and-broommate' and she'll rhyme 'coinage' with 'sirloinage' . . . Sweet as a kiss on the first date."
— New York Post

"The show was bright and breezy and the closest New York has come to having a socially conscious revue"
— Saturday Review

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Heather O'Malley a more experienced actress who lives with her gay friend Dan Craig	female	—	a more experienced actress who lives with her gay friend Dan Craig
Jonathan Winslow a hopeful from the Midwest; all smiles and a suitcase with all the contents stolen except his tap shoes.	male	—	a hopeful from the Midwest; all smiles and a suitcase with all the contents stolen except his tap shoes.
Gabrielle Schwartz a clueless hopeful who carries a guitar and has written an inappropriate country-western-type song for her audition; the accompaniment is actually played on her tape recorder	female	—	a clueless hopeful who carries a guitar and has written an inappropriate country-western-type song for her audition; the accompaniment is actually played on her tape recorder