Licensing Company: Broadway Licensing
The Marvelous Wonderettes Dream On
It’s 1969 and “The Marvelous Wonderettes” (prom queen Cindy Lou, tomboy Betty Jean, goody two-shoes Missy & class clown Suzy) are back to throw a retirement party for their favorite teacher, set to the greatest girl-group hits of the 60’s (“Gimme Some Lovin”, “It’s Your Thing”). Act Two finds the girls back together as the class of 1958 celebrates their 20-year reunion as one of the Wonderettes hits it big as musical superstar! Classic pop and rock hits of the 70’s (“We are Family”, “I Will Survive”) provide the perfect soundtrack for these old friends to catch up on the places life has led them, all performed with their own marvelous spin!
The Marvelous Wonderettes Dream On
PROGRAMMED INSTRUMENTS
Keyboard 2/Synthesizer
$300.00
It’s 1969 and “The Marvelous Wonderettes” (prom queen Cindy Lou, tomboy Betty Jean, goody two-shoes Missy & class clown Suzy) are back to throw a retirement party for their favorite teacher, set to the greatest girl-group hits of the 60’s (“Gimme Some Lovin”, “It’s Your Thing”). Act Two finds the girls back together as the class of 1958 celebrates their 20-year reunion as one of the Wonderettes hits it big as musical superstar! Classic pop and rock hits of the 70’s (“We are Family”, “I Will Survive”) provide the perfect soundtrack for these old friends to catch up on the places life has led them, all performed with their own marvelous spin!
PROGRAMMING NOTES
The licensed orchestration is based on the Original 2016 Regional production at Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, TX.
This version is orchestrated to be conducted from the Piano/Conductor/Keyboard 1 book by the Music Director. Only Keyboard 2 has patches or keyboard programming. As a jukebox musical with a very small band, Keyboard 2 fills out some of the other sounds of the era.
SHOW DESCRIPTION
This is the fourth WONDERETTES show which follows THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, WINTER WONDERETTES, and WONDERETTES CAPS AND GOWNS. Playwright Roger Bean created THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES as an homage to his mother who was in a ’50s style all-girl song club in high school. The original show had the ladies at the 1958 prom entertaining classmates, while subsequent installments have been at various reunions. The first act of DREAM ON finds the foursome coming together 11 years after that initial prom in 1969 to help celebrate the retirement of their homeroom teacher, Mrs. McPherson. Act Two flashes forward another 9 years to 1978 and their 20th reunion. The classic pop and rock hits of the ’70s provide the perfect soundtrack for these old friends to catch up on the places life has led them, all performed with their own marvelous spin!