Naomi wrote:
<<Is anyone acquainted with the musical "Nine" -- based on the life and art of Federico Fellini? The score is out of my local library and I need some descriptive information about the character of Guido's mother. What sortof a person is she? What songs does she sing?
Thanks for any help you can give me.>>
Not firsthand, but here's some stuff I turned up on a Google.com search of the net, on the terms yeston nine (since Maury yeston wrote the music). Also I included the amazon.com and the barnes and noble.com pages, which have some song excerpts. I also printed out the best stuff I found on the last URL. Also in that URL but not printed here is a complete song list with the names of the artists performing them which can give you a hint of the vocal requirements if you know or can find out about the artists. If you do the google search I did, you can find other things that can also be helpful
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000025T5/vocalistint00-20 http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=74643832526 http://www.musicalheaven.com/n/nine.shtml http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/4596/nine/ (above has synopsis) The Story: NINE, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of the 1982 Broadway season, concerns the travails of Guido Contini-- a forty-year-old Italian movie director-- and the twenty-one women in his life, who first appear as an orchestra he mentally conducts (OVERTURE). Guido, whose last three films have been flops, is suffering from a mid-life crisis at the worst possible time-- in the middle of his life (GUIDO'S SONG). He is vacationing at a Venetian spa and trying to repair his crumbling marriage to his wife, Luisa (MY HUSBAND MAKES MOVIES). But his mistress, Carla, is also in Venice and provides considerable distraction (A CALL FROM THE VATICAN). Guido is also enamored of his fomer protegee Claudia Nardi, the actress, and is hard pressed to choose from among the three woman in his life (ONLY WITH YOU). To make matters worse, his Parisian producer, Liliane La Fleur, insists that he create a movie musical for her (FOLIES BERGERES) though Comtini, as yet, hasn't the slightest idea for a film. Tormented, Guido is haunted by three earlier moments in his life when, as a child of nine, he was fawned over by his mother and aunt (NINE), intrduced to sexuality by the exuberant whore Saraghina (TI VOGLIO BENE/BE ITALIAN), and punished at his parochial school for having gone to visit Sara hina on the beach. When almost all seems lost, Claudia comes to Venice and inadvertently inspires Guido's idea for his movie (UNUSUAL WAY). The film begins rehearsal immediately but, while it is in progress, Guido violates a trust with Luisa and alienates the other women in his life (SIMPLE, BE ON YOUR OWN). Abandoned by Luisa, Carla, and Claudia, and with his film doomed to failure, Contini becomes seriously disoriented (I CAN'T MAKE THIS MOVIE), and fantasizes suicide. He is saved by the spectre of his nine-year-old self, Little Guido, who urges him toward maturity (GETTING TALL), after which Guido abandons at last his orchestra of women and sets out in search of his one true love-- Luisa
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