In The Name of Love

Music: Donald Oliver
Stories and Lyrics: Marc Acito, Sheldon Harnick, Barry Kleinbort, Peter Mills,
Jim Morgan, David Spencer, Amanda Yesnowitz, David Zippel

Music

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Script

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Score

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SYNOPSIS

In the Name of Love is a musical mosaic about the elusive search for love and the myriad ways we screw it up.

In a series of musical stories—eight individual songs and four extended musical-scenes (“mini-musicals”)—the cast of three women and two men portray characters both fictional and factual, historical and hysterical; disparate, desperate people ranging from Neanderthals to your next-door neighbors, all of them reaching for romance.

NOTES

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BREAKDOWN

The five actors play all the characters in the show.

  1. WOMAN 1:  Younger – plays 18 – 30, Soprano & Belt
  2. WOMAN 2:  Mature – plays 31 – 90, Soprano & Belt
  3. WOMAN 3:  Can play any age, Soprano & Belt
  4. MAN 1:  Younger – plays 18 – 30, Tenor
  5. MAN 2:  Mature – plays 31 – 100, Baritone

Development Notes

Featured on MainStreet Musicals website with full script and score samples available. Musical mosaic about love — five actors play all characters. Marc Acito: novelist and playwright (How I Paid for College) Peter Mills: NYMF multiple award winner (Illyria, The Pursuit of Persephone).

Distinguished lyricist roster includes Sheldon Harnick (Tony Awards for Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!; Grammy for She Loves Me) and David Zippel (Tony Award for City of Angels) Barry Kleinbort: cabaret and theater lyricist.

Script and score available directly through MainStreet Musicals.