Love Goddess, The Rita Hayworth Musical
Created by Almog Pail
Book by Almog Pail & Stephen Garvey. Music & Lyrics by Logan Medland
Directed by Steve North. Choreography by Jacqui Jameson
Music Direction by Archie Combe
Presenting a new American musical about one of the greatest movie stars who ever lived. Considered by many to be the most beautiful woman of her day, Fred Astaire’s all-time favorite dance partner, and the bride Orson Welles wanted more than any other woman in the world, there is and will always be only one Rita Hayworth.
Crowned the “Love Goddess” by her adoring fans, Rita Hayworth thrilled studio executives, servicemen, and movie audiences alike, generating big box office in 1940s/50s Hollywood. She embodied the American ideal of perfection with her flowing red hair, gorgeous figure, seductive on-screen image, and demure off-screen charm. Yet she struggled to identify with the bombshell image projected of her.
Originally a solo play created and performed by Almog Pail entitled Me, Myself and Rita, the show won raves from audiences and critics in Malta, Off-Broadway and London as it evolved into a full-scale musical with creative team Logan Medland, Composer (pianist for A Bronx Tale Broadway, Writer/Composer, Fingers and Toes), Stephen Garvey, Co-Writer (The Bardy Bunch, Cut Me Down), and Producer Laura Lundy of Blue Panther Productions (Broadway, Children of a Lesser God, 2018 revival- Associate Producer. Producer: Me, Myself & Rita, London, AROUSAL, The Flea Theater, New York, Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood US/Europe tour, Ransom, Texas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, The Oy of Sex, New York).
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Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood
Written & Performed by Dylan Brody
Directed by Nancy Carlin
International Tour, 2017
New York, Chicago, Barcelona, London
Witty, inventive, and always playful, Brody employs his signature structure of literary flashback and comedic callbacks to lead us through his absurdist childhood in a throwback town where the mayor begrudgingly acknowledged the family’s arrival by amending the sign at the town’s border to read: “Welcome to Schuylerville, Population 984… and some Jews,” to his early professional and artistic disappointments in the entertainment industry and on into his adult life as a comic and writer in Los Angeles. In a town where success and fame is constantly almost happening, Brody lifts our spirits and unites our common dreams in this very funny story of passion, heartbreak and a spark of hope at the intersection of art and commerce.
Sponsored by Throckmorton Theatre & Blacksmith Cellars
Originally performed at The Henry Hwang Theatre, Los Angeles 2015