Earnest, or What's in a Name? - Softcover

Diamond, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692315055 ISBN 13: 9780692315057

Publisher: Steele Spring Stage Rights, 2015

Synopsis

Full-Length Musical | “Truly impressive! The whole thing is a hoot.” –The Newtown Bee | Oscar Wilde receives a surprise visit from Arthur Sullivan, who, as it turns out, has just split from his partner Gilbert and is seeking a new venture. Wilde, only too happy to oblige, offers up his unpublished play, The Importance of Being Earnest, and an inspired (fictitious) collaboration is born. What follows is an imagined musical version of one of the most well-loved plays of all time. Featuring a score the real Arthur Sullivan would have been proud to pen himself, Earnest, or What’s In A Name? is an exciting and inventive new musical that will leave you wanting more from this partnership that ‘might have been.’ (Cast: 4F, 6M)

About this title

About the Author

Leonard Diamond, M.D. (Book, Music and Lyrics): Doctor Diamond wrote his first musical in college and continued writing through medical school, psychiatric residency and private practice, right up to today! "Earnest" is the first musical for which he has written the book as well, which he acknowledges was only possible because he had Oscar Wilde as a collaborator. It is also the first of his musicals to be a finalist and given the opportunity to be fully produced at the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) competitions for 2012 and 2013. None of this would have occurred without his wife, Ruth, who has been both the dream nurturer and the realist who made the fulfillment of the dream possible.

Edition details

• Publisher: Steele Spring Stage Rights
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0692315055
• ISBN 13: 9780692315057
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 66