Dogs in musicals?
Not On Broadway Yet
the names of musicals in which dogs are in (i.e. Annie, Wizard of Oz) and the
dog's name.
jake ok
Gypsy-Chowsie
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!-Snoopy
The Wizard Of Oz-Toto
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Karen Horn
I think a while back we had a thread re: what shows had dogs and
other animals in them. You might check deja news [in case it
works for that topic]
anyway, Drood (don't know that the dog had a name, but made an "appearance"
Will Roger's Follies has a dog act
I've seen a dog in Camelot (though I don't recall if it's normally
the case or not.]
DoctorMusical
from Snoopy/You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, TOTO from The Wiz/Wizard of Oz and
CHEEKY from Anything Goes, here are some odd ones for ya':
HORRID in Camelot (played by an actor in a dog suit) -- he actually is
purported by his master King Pellinore to play the piano (but plays with "too
much left paw!")
The PEKES and the POLLICLES from Cats, played by humans playing cats wearing
sneakers on their heads playing dogs. ???
JIP the Sheepdog in Lesley Bricusse's Doctor Doolittle -- a puppet from Jim
Henson's Creature Shop!
NANA in Peter Pan.
I believe Betty Buckley's character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood walked
onstage with a POODLE in her bag at one point, but that's all I remember about
that.
Could there perhaps be a pair of dogs in the Danny Kaye musical "Two By Two?"
And of course, there's the much-ballyhooed (but never seen) Akita named EVITA
who meets his untimely demise in Rent.
Wow.
Musicals sure seem to have surpassed their quota of dog characters!
And now, just for sh*ts and giggles, how about some even weirder animals in or
referred to in musicals? Here goes:
Man of LaMancha: HORSES!
Frogs: FROGS!
Once Upon a Mattress: SINGING NIGHTINGALE!
The Apple Tree: SATANIC SNAKE!
Cabaret: MEESHKITE GORILLA!
Beauty and the Beast (besides the obvious): DANCING, MINCING WOLVES!
Gypsy: A LITTLE LAMB!
Merlin: DISAPPEARING HORSE!
My Fair Lady: DOVER, THE HORSE WHO'S TOLD TO "MOVE HIS BLOOMIN' ARSE!"
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: GROUNDHOG! GROUNDHOG!
Cats/The Lion King: ENTIRE CASTS!
West Side Story: YIKES... SHARKS!
Batboy: WELL... BATBOY!
Return to the Forbidden Planet: (BEWARE THE) IDS THAT MARCH!
Mame: A CUTE LITTLE SOUTHERN FOX WHO WOULD NEVER HURT ANYBODY!
The King and I: SIMON OF LEGREE'S BALLETIC AND ILL-FATED HUNTING DOGS! NOT TO
MENTION THE KING'S TOADS! TOADS! (ALL OF HIS PEOPLE ARE TOADS!)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: FIELD SHEEP, HUNGRY RATS AND AN
ILL-FATED PASSING GOAT!
Tomfoolery: ILL-FATED PIGEONS!
Carrie: ILL-FATED PIG (CAMEO BY HIS BLOOD ONLY)!
Fiddler on the Roof: EITHER A HORSE OR A MULE (THEY NEVER DID GET TO THE
BOTTOM OF IT)!
Reefer Madness: GOAT-MAN, MASTER OF THE ORGY!
Side Show: REPTILE MAN & SNAKE GIRL!
The Sound of Music: A DEER (I'M PRETTY SURE IT WAS A _FEMALE_ DEER)
Into the Woods: COW ON WHEELS! Bonus if you saw the show on Broadway during
previews: WELL-HUNG WOLF!
and my personal fave:
Sunset Boulevard: DEAD MONKEY!
Anyway, please excuse the digression and good luck with your project,
Doc
agrgurich
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Jean Prouvaire
>
> Anything Goes-Cheeky
> Gypsy-Chowsie
> You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!-Snoopy
> The Wizard Of Oz-Toto
Two shows I haven't seen, so this may not be correct:
_Annie_, though the name of the dog escapes me.
_Nick and Nora_, no idea of the name. (IIRC, the show opened with a dog
on stage, handing the critics some perfect ammunition for their
reviews.)
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Tyson Armstrong
The dog is Pellinore's dog. I beleive it was in the Original Broadway
production of Camelot, but I'm pretty sure it's not written into the script.
Regards,
Tyson
Karen Horn <kah...@king.cts.com> wrote in message
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Dog in "Drood". She also used her ShiTzu (Jesse) during her
Papermill "Gypsy" run as Chowsie.
>
> I believe Betty Buckley's character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
walked
> onstage with a POODLE in her bag at one point, but that's all I
remember about
> that.
>
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David McAnally
>Please help, as you may know I am writing a musical about dogs, and so I need
>the names of musicals in which dogs are in (i.e. Annie, Wizard of Oz) and the
>dog's name.
In a production of "The Merry Widow", Hazel Phillips, who appeared in the
role of Praskovia Pritschitsch, brought her pet Shih-tzu dog, Yum-Yum, on
stage with her during the performance.
Hope this helps.
Noel Katz
"co-star" in the commercial in Top Banana.
Steve & Rhonda
line appears only in one. He has often been played by a real dog,
leaving real artifacts behind for the dancers in the LUSTY MONTH tag.
One low-budget production solved this problem by having him played by an
"invisible dog" collar.
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Stephen Lewis
Tell us about the two scripts for Camelot. I hadn't heard about that.
And you wouldn't happen to know the provenance of the two scripts for
Hello, Dolly -- the one in the paperback edition is very different from
the one in the sides we used 25 years ago (the latter being much closer
to Thornton Wilder and I suspect the original book).
Steve
Karen Horn
: Horrid is definitely in both scripts for CAMELOT, although the left paw
: line appears only in one. He has often been played by a real dog,
: leaving real artifacts behind for the dancers in the LUSTY MONTH tag.
: One low-budget production solved this problem by having him played by an
: "invisible dog" collar.
H'mmmmm....food for thought. If they could just have Guenivere played
by an "invisibile woman."
Karen
Steve & Rhonda
script vs. the acting edition: the former is the end of Broadway (with
cuts) script, the acting(sides) is from a later version wherein (playing
Pellinore) Arthur Treacher "starred" with Kathryn Grayson in a national
tour, and his material in particular: his opening scene, the Lancelot
scene, the forest scene, and the Mordred scene all have new jokes. (I
played Arthur in a production using the published script, and was very
pleasantly surprised when I was handed the sides 15 years later playing
Pellinore.)
I also played Cornelius and Horace (9 years apart) and again, as you
say, the Tams script differs from the published, but mostly with regard
to Dolly's lines as I recall. But in this case, I truly don't know
which came first and how the differences came about.
I do know it's very common that National Tour vs. Broadway versions of
scripts and scores (particularly long runs) get picked up by the
licensing agents because the materials have been refined in their
notation, are more complete and seem better for copying and
distribution. I can give you about a dozen titles where this has
happened and it sometimes creates a problem.
In ZORBA for example: John Raitt got a new 2nd act opener for the tour,
"Bouboulina" (replacing "Y'assou") which goes to like an A flat or
something, while the rest of the role has a top of maybe an E natural.
The point is, most Zorbas will not have that note, but that's the song
you've got. In our 1986 production, (in which I was only an actor
playing Nikos, so don't flame), the producer paid to have "Y'assou"
orchestrated and put back.
Bill Drummonds
moment, my head's in a fog.
Drumm
Stephen Lewis
>
> I also played Cornelius and Horace (9 years apart) and again, as you
> say, the Tams script differs from the published, but mostly with regard
> to Dolly's lines as I recall. But in this case, I truly don't know
> which came first and how the differences came about.
materials. As for Dolly, lo those many years ago I played Ambrose, we
had been rehearsing with the paperback and were confounded when the
sides arrived later with much different -- and often better --
dialogue. But the director decided to keep going with the paperback
since we were pretty far along with the staging and, it being community
theatre with mainly amateurs, some of the cast were thrown by not having
a complete script to use :-(. At any rate, Dolly got a few lines
switched, and I did too because I insisted -- DEMANDED -- to use "It's
all very well to come down like clockwork, Mrs. Levi, but you're asking
Ermengarde to work there!" from the sides. They weren't taking all
those wonderful consonants away from me!
Steve
agrgurich
He has a very funny scene with Launce(sp?)
Steve & Rhonda
I drove the director nuts with NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. I had 27 "3 by 5"
cards of better lines from the paperback that I insisted on adding to
this gigantic role in a 3 hour plus play. (One two-character scene
lasted an hour!) This was a college production in 1972, and back then
they didn't care if we numbed the audience, because it was art.
New topic: SIDES.
When is the last time anyone actually used them? Or even unpacked them?
For me, again in college (1971) as Don Quixote.
For those who don't know, sides contain only your lines and a few cue
words, without even a scene number. Sometimes cues are identical and at
one rehearsal we cut THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM because Pedro the muleteer
came on (to his correct cue) before, not after the song. Also the stage
directions are written in the first person and are sometimes hilarious.
As Quixote:" YOU fall to the ground and YOU die."
But you're right. Since people now xerox full scripts for everyone, they
more often than not jump the gun and xerox any published version from a
library or a paperback before waiting for the director's master script
(usually 1 copy provided). As I've said before, I've done numerous
productions wherein we ALL discovered, sometimes after running for
months, the "real" script.
JCTravis
>
> When is the last time anyone actually used them? Or even unpacked them?
> For me, again in college (1971) as Don Quixote.
>
> For those who don't know, sides contain only your lines and a few cue
> words, without even a scene number. Sometimes cues are identical and at
> one rehearsal we cut THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM because Pedro the muleteer
> came on (to his correct cue) before, not after the song. Also the stage
> directions are written in the first person and are sometimes hilarious.
> As Quixote:" YOU fall to the ground and YOU die."
Sides are *awful*. I've only seen them for Tams-Whitmark shows. They often
don't even give you the full line before...I played Ling in ANYTHING GOES
and my side was one page that was like:
Ching: Boxcars!
You: Craps!
Billy: ...call pants!
You: I call pants!
YOU take off your pants.
Tim Dunleavy
McCarter Theater this past May, has a dog named Chaos who is played by
a man in a dog suit. In this production, the actor who played the dog
(John Jellison) also played the (human) next door neighbor of the
dog's family.
-Tim