They're Playing Our Song
by Marvin Hamlisch, Neil Simon, Carole Bayer Sager

They're Playing Our Song Book Cover
They're Playing Our Song Cover

Highlights

105 mins Present Day Room for Extras Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Tony Award

Nominee: Four 1979 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Book Nominee: Five 1979 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical, Book and Music

Synopsis

America’s premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line collaborated on this hit musical; a funny, romantic show about an established composer, not unlike Marvin Hamlisch, and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike Carole Bayer Sager.

Professionally, their relationship works beautifully, but personally, they hit a few bumps… romance blossoms, conflict rears its head, and comic sparks fly.

Press Reviews

"Engaging light entertainment."

— New York Daily News

"It is fun and it is funny, full of blithe good humor, hilarious jokes and witty, pointed characterizations… The concept of the musical is absolutely beguiling… Simon has gotten himself another odd couple even odder than his first and is at his most sprightly and acidly comic."

— New York Post

"[A] charmingly melodic comedy showcasing the meeting, collaboration and love affair of the well-matched neurotic composing duo."

— Chicagoland Musical Theatre

Characters

Character
VERNON GERSCH

An established composer

SONIA WALSK

A young lyricist

VOICES OF VERNON GERSCH

3 men

VOICES OF SONIA WALSK

3 women

VOICE OF PHIL THE ENGINEER

Publication

ISBN-13 9780573681059
ISBN-10 0573681058

They're Playing Our Song is a play written by Marvin Hamlisch and published by Concord Theatricals .

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