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Louis Braille: The World at Your Fingertips (musical) |
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Successfully produced by Theatreworks/USA in New York at Town Hall and the Promenade Theatre, and subsequently toured throughout 20 states east of the Mississippi, including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Selected as finalist by the National Children's Theatre Festival and given a special feature presentation at the Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Florida.
The Louis Braille bicentennial was in 2009 and in addition to various celebrations; the U.S. Mint issued a commemorative Louis Braille dollar in the spring of 2009. |
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Musical. Book by Cynthia L. Cooper and Joel Vig. Music by Annie Lebeaux. Lyrics by Jane Smulyan. Cast: 3m., 2w., with doubling, or up to 21+ (6m., 5w., 10 either gender) extras optional. With an uplifting story and a vibrant score, this musical shows the power of a teenaged Louis Braille's belief and determination to change the expectations of the world. It is an ambitious musical with a strong story line. Young Louis Braille, blind since age 3, enrolls in The Blind School of Paris hoping to learn to read and write. He dreams of becoming a diplomat. When Louis protests broom-making class and exposes a fake display of reading at the annual presentation for donors, he nearly gets expelled. Thankfully, Marie deVries, an instructor, introduces him to music and supports his creative mind by arranging a meeting with the French captain who invented a rudimentary method of nightwriting for soldiers. The method's absurdity and impracticality are clear to Louis, but it gives him the springboard for a burst of creative genius. The result? The Braille system, a code to be scanned under the fingertips, opening a world of literature and musical notation previously closed to the blind. Strong roles for actors in the ensemble. Flexible staging. Period costumes of the 1880s. Approximate running time: 55 minutes.
Also Available:
Piano/Vocal Score
Rehearsal CD (w/voices)
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| | A CD of rehearsal tracks, with singing, is available for learning the songs. (Recorded accompaniment tracks are not available.) |
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| 53 |
| $45.00 /perf.* |
| $6.75 |
| 55 min. |
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| Middle School | High School | College and Adult | | Drama |
| 0876024223 |
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|  | Cynthia L. Cooper is an award-winning playwright with productions throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. Her plays are published in 11 volumes. How She Played the Game was produced Off-Broadway, in Montreal, Boston, Los Angeles, Budapest and 80 other venues. Works for young audiences, including Go Girl Go, Sor Juana, Changemakers, and Reachin', have toured hundreds of ...More | | Annie LeBeaux wrote the music for Hot Swing With A Little Schmaltz, which was produced by the Actors Playhouse in Miami and nominated for the Carbonell Award for Best New Musical. She has written music for more than 30 industrials which she performed worldwide, is a busy musical director, and, in another parallel career, has played piano and sung for ...More | | Jane Smulyan has been a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop since 1980 and is now a member of the workshop's steering committee. For TheatreworksUSA, she also wrote the lyrics for The Three Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Hansel and Gretel, all with books by Michael Slade and music by David Evans. She is from ...More | | Joel Vig created touring productions for the Arkansas Art Center and the Nebraska Arts Council, is a contributor to the textbook Creating a Sense of Occasion (Holt), and is a guest lecturer at college theatre departments. He has worked as a director, stage manager, performer and designer, on Broadway, off Broadway, at Theatre at Sea and regional theatres. He ...More |
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* Please note that royalties quoted in our catalog are intended for K-12 schools with a standard curriculum only. All other producing groups must submit a completed
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