I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Based on the play by Celeste Raspanti. Book and lyrics by Joseph Robinette. Music by E.A. Alexander.
Product Code: I03000
Musical
Drama
Cast size: 8m., 5w., 8 children. With doubling, 3m., 4w., 4 children.
Awards: The Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award
Rights and availability
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Synopsis
This new musical version of Celeste Raspanti's widely produced play brings an added dimension to the story of the children of Terezin, a ghetto under Nazi rule during World War II. Though few of the children survived, their lives were given meaning and hope through the tireless efforts of an inspirational teacher, Irena, who challenged their creativity and artistry in a makeshift classroom using scavenged materials which she kept hidden from the authorities. More than 5,000 drawings, poems and prose pieces were produced by the children in the concentration camp during its three- year existence, thus providing a legacy that continues to be honored and celebrated today. As narrated by one of the survivors - and close friend of Irena - Raja takes the audience on a never-to-be-forgotten adventure that moves seamlessly back-and-forth between past and present. The musical is rich in its variety of songs including "Terezin," "We'll Stick Together," "When I Go Home," "You Don't Know the First Thing About Anything," and "I Loved You Before I Met You." The final words of the song "I Leave You These" best summarize the theme of the musical. As Irena is leaving Terezin to meet her fate, she secretly passes the writings and drawings to Raja and sings: "These poems and pictures will live on after us all/And on the memory of the children who made them/Night shall never fall."
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Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Musical
- Product Code I03000
- Minimum Cast Size 11
- Pages of Dialogue 79
- Min. Royalty Rate $110.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 90 min
- Staging Area staging.
Categories
- Target Audience Middle School | High School | College and Adult
- Performing Group Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA
- Genre Drama
- ISBN(13) 9781583424117
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Audio/Video
Audio
| Terezin | mp3 | Download | |
| We'll Stick Together | mp3 | Download | |
| The Rules | mp3 | Download | |
| Do the Best With What You've Got | mp3 | Download | |
| Welcome Shabbot | mp3 | Download | |
| You Don't Know... | mp3 | Download | |
| When I Go Home | mp3 | Download | |
| Curfew | mp3 | Download | |
| The Gift | mp3 | Download | |
| The Wedding Psalm | mp3 | Download | |
| Ludvik | mp3 | Download | |
| You Don't Know... Reprise | mp3 | Download | |
| Goodbye - I Leave You These | mp3 | Download |
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Gallery
I Never Saw Another Butterfly - Artists Conservatory Theatre of Delaware
I Never Saw Another Butterfly - San Juan Community Theatre, Friday Harbor, WA
Also By These Authors
Michael Pizzi, Touching Humanity, New York, N.Y.