Overview
Synopsis
It’s 1954, and young Benjy Stone is realizing his life-long dream of writing for television, working as a freshman writer on TV’s most popular comedy show: King Kaiser’s Comedy Cavalcade. Life is crazy but exhilarating, and just when he thought it couldn’t get any more interesting, Benjy is assigned as chaperone (read: babysitter) to swashbuckling veteran Hollywood star, Alan Swann. Swann has been Benjy’s movie idol and inspiration since he was a child. Benjy was raised by a single mother, and used to fantasize about Swann being his real father. It’s a dream come true, until he meets the real Swann and realizes that life is much more complicated than it ever looks in the movies. Ahrens and Flaherty’s coming-of-age musical is based on the 1982 motion picture My Favorite Year, with a story by Dennis Palumbo and a screenplay by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo.
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Character Portrayals
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Songs
Act I
- *Twenty Million People - Benjy and Company
- Larger Than Life - Benjy
- *The Musketeer Sketch - Benjy, Sy, King, Alice, K.C., Leo and Herb
- Waldorf Suite - Benjy, Offstage Chorus
- Rookie in the Ring - Belle
- Manhattan - Alan and Ensemble
- Naked in Bethesda Fountain - Sy, Alice, Leo, Herb and K.C.
- *The Gospel According to the King - King, Alan and Ensemble
- *The Musketeer Sketch Rehearsal - Musketeers, Benjy, and Alan
- Funny / The Duck Joke - K. C. and Alice
- *The Musketeer Sketch Rehearsal Part II - King, Alan and Ensemble
- Welcome to Brooklyn - Morty, Rookie, Belle, Sadie, Benjy, Alan and Neighbors
- If the World Were Like the Movies - Alan
Act II
- Exits - Alan
- *Shut Up and Dance - K. C., Benjy, Offstage Chorus
- *Professional Showbizness Comedy - Alice, King and Ensemble
- The Lights Come Up - Alan and Benjy
- *Maxford House - Maxford House Girls
- The Musketeer Sketch Finale - King and Ensemble
- *My Favorite Year - Benjy and Company
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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