- Shine! (musical)
Infobox Musical
name=Shine!
book=Richard Seff
lyrics=Lee Goldsmith
music=Roger Anderson
productions= 1983 Virginia Museum Theatre
"Shine!" is a musical based on characters and situations found in the works of Horatio Alger, particularly Ragged Dick and Silas Snobden's Office Boy, respectively Alger's first best-seller and the one first printed in book form eighty years after it was first serialized in Argosy. It's plot and characters focus on Alger's pervasive theme: that in America one could begin with nothing, and with the right attitude, hard work, application, and a little bit of luck, dream a dream and chart a course on which to achieve it.
Shine! was announced for Broadway in 1982 but production was canceled when producer 20th Century Fox disbanded its newly formed theatre division. The show was later produced in 1983 at the Virginia Museum Theatre in Richmond, VA. A reading of a revised version was seen in 1998 at Off Broadway's York Theatre Company. In 2001 Shine! was part of the [http://www.nmtn.org National Musical Theatre Network] showcase. That performance was recorded and released by [http://www.originalcastrecords.com Original Cast Records] in October 2001. The show was published by [http://www.samuelfrench.com Samuel French] in 2002.Authors
Book: [http://www.richardseff.com Richard Seff]
Lyrics: Lee Goldsmith
Music: [http://home.nyc.rr.com/raworks/ Roger Anderson]Songs
ACT ONE
Prelude
Wall Street Lament
Shine!
Look at Him
Silas Snobden, Inc.
Cock and Bull
Maybe Today
Put Your Money In
Partners
The Room
Keeping Up With the Times
A Hardworking Boy
Look How Far We've ComeACT TWO
Find That Boy
A Hardworking Boy (Reprise)
Shine (Reprise)
From Now On
Someone
Yes!
A Handful O' Hops
North of 14th StreetReviews
"A cheerful, uplifting period musical"Show Music Magazine
"Melodic and bouncy, traits that are in short supply nowadays" [http://www.playbill.com Playbill On-Line]
"An entertaining all-American answer to Oliver" [http://www.musicals101.com Musicals 101]
"A new musical that sounds like real Broadway!" [http://www.jorgeplace.com Jorge's Place On-Line/]External links
* [http://www.shinethemusical.com The Official Shine! Website]
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