The Nose
by Kit Goldstein Grant
Music
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Script
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Score
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SYNOPSIS
Petty bureaucrat Kovalyov has always prided himself on his good looks and laughed at disfigurement in others, but his tune changes when his own nose up and runs away! Disguising itself as a higher ranking bureaucrat with fancy uniform and plumed hat, his nose sets out on a mad dash through Petersburg, and Kovalyov finds that whatever the consequences, he must follow his nose.
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Development Notes
World premiere: Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF), NYC, August 2016 (4 award nominations including Best Musical; won Outstanding Costume Design) Master Theater, Brooklyn, February 2017 (1,326-seat historic venue; sold out) National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa, Summer 2017 The Drama Factory, Cape Town, South Africa, Fall 2017 Artscape Theatre Centre, Cape Town, December 2018 Won MainStreet Musicals Directors’ Choice Award Jackie White Memorial National Children’s Playwriting Contest, 2nd Prize Based on Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 short story
Staged reading at National Opera Center, NYC, October 25, 2015 (starring Drama Desk Award winner Graham Stevens; produced by Theater Resources Unlimited) Kit Goldstein Grant: Juilliard/BMI Musical Theatre Workshop trained; ASCAP member; Dramatists Guild member; founding member NYC Composers Collective; also writes for Schenectady Theatre for Children.