Based on the book Professor Fodorski by Robert Lewis Taylor. Adapted by June Walker Rogers from the book by Mel Brooks. Music by Charles Strouse. Lyrics by Lee Adams.
Product Code: A02000
Musical
Comedy
Cast size: 6m., 6w. (flexible chorus.)
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The composers of Bye, Bye, Birdie have written another musical, this one set at a small, football-oriented college. Professor Fodorski arrives with other immigrants singing a naturalization rag with such lines as "Make us Hungarians/Into Rotarians/Change us Roumanianso Pennsylvanians." Frantic to please, professor Fodorski finally reaches his sports-minded students by stating his engineering concepts in football terms and, in the course of demonstrating a principle, turns a mousy student drudge named Bricker into a phenomenal kicker. ("Your hip is the fulcrum, multiply by the force of the lever, your knee.") The team becomes a sensation, as do Bricker and the astonished professor. This show makes a comment on education today by putting it in terms of a bright and marvelous musical comedy. This musical has one of the most beautiful love songs ever written for a musical, the haunting "Once Upon a Time."
Perfect show to encourage cooperation between jocks and arts. Also offered opportunity for teachers as well as students to participate in a summer production. Nice interplay all around. Well received.
Leslie Thomas, Whitefish High School, Whitefish, Mont.