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Moscow

book and lyrics by Nick Salamone, music by Maury R McIntyre

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Description

Three gay actors find themselves on a stage. They have no idea how they got there or why they are there. They find a copy of THE THREE SISTERS — in Russian. One of them can read Russian so he begins to translate the play, and each of them starts to act out the part of one of the sisters.

Production Info

Cast: 5 total (5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
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Reviews

Press Quotes

“A brilliant musical … original and absurd … captures and magnifies the extraordinary yearning quality of Chekov’s THREE SISTERS and puts its faith in the healing power of art … its heart is big enough to embrace everyone who lives with the dull ache of an unfulfilled life.” —The Guardian (London)

“Witty, tender, sophisticated … a wonderful, delicate fusion of music, theatre, songs and emotion … by turns warm, wise, funny and moving, but always compelling entertainment.” —The Scotsman

“Existentialism with a heart that melds intellectualism and sweetness into one richly diverting oddity … a timely tribute to the redemptive powers of art, a reminder that even the most apparently hopeless lives can be transformed through the unifying fellowship of the theater.” —The Los Angeles Times

“Three gay men who get trapped in a theater with a copy of Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS, offer in Nick Salamone and Maury R McIntyre’s musical adaptation, a wonderful new reading of the play. This version crystallizes the despair and fragile hopes of the sisters who are, as ever, stuck in the country endlessly yearning for Moscow; and the men’s stories bring fresh perspectives to the universality of the sisters’ emotions without ever becoming trite parallels … funny, sensual and poignant.” —The New Yorker

About the Author

Author

  • Maury R McIntyre

    In addition to composing MOSCOW'S music and performing on piano for MOSCOW'S original New York cast recording album, Maury R McIntyre composed music for an earlier authored Nick Salamone work, RIFFS AND CREDOS. Prior to MOSCOW, Maury's produced works include HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, JOINED AT THE HEAD, ALL IN THE TIMING, THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE and THE MANDRAKE. Maury is an honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, earning a BS degree in Chemistry and a BA degree in Bio-Chemistry. He also has an MFA degree in Performing Arts Management from California Institute of the Arts. He is an accomplished classical pianist and is a skilled musician on a variety of other instruments, including keyboards, saxophone, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and flute.

  • Nick Salamone

    Nick Salamone was born and raised in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where he attended Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Tufts University in Massachusetts with degrees in Drama and in American Literature. In New York City, he studied at HB Studios and worked as an actor performing in over 40 Off-Broadway plays, including the New York premieres of NIGHTSHIFT, A R Gurney's THE OPENING MEETING, THE BRANNOCK DEVICE, and LORCA — A SHADOW OF CYPRESS and revivals of WE BOMBED IN NEW HAVEN, THE SEAGULL, DESIGN FOR LIVING, and KENNEDY'S CHILDREN. He has also done bit part in soaps and moves. Nick is the author of six produced plays. His first play, ANOTHER HOUSE ON MERCY STREET, won an LA Weekly Theater Critics Award when it was first produced in Los Angeles. MERCY STREET was made into an independent feature film, winning two major awards at the Atlantic City Film Festival. His next play, ALL SOULS' DAY, received a tenth anniversary revival at LA's Playwrights Arena. His plays RIFFS & CREDOS and WHALEWATCHERS have been produced both in the United States and abroad. Those two play, when produced with ALL SOULS' DAY, become the ALL SOULS' TRILOGY. ALL SOULS' TRILOGY received a Maddy Award for excellence in playwriting during 2000 and was described in the "Best of 2000" issue of After Dark Magazine as "a triumph and a masterpiece." RIFFS & CREDOS, Nick's ninety-minute chronicle of the deathbed fantasies of a Catholic priest dying of AIDS, has been described in Night Life magazine "as one of the finest plays of the last 25 years." His two-character play, RED HAT & TALES, played to sold-out houses in Los Angeles and received a Backstage West Garland Nomination. Nick's musical play MOSCOW, with music by Maury R McIntyre, has been performed around the United States and at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival in Scotland. Nick is also a published poet.

About the Book

Book Information

Publisher BPPI
Publication Date 7/15/2011
Pages 72
ISBN 9780881454604

Special Notes

Special Notes

Licensees are required to include the original stage producers credits in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:

Originally produced by Jon Lawrence Rivera for Playwrights' Arena, Los Angeles

The following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
Moscow is produced
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com