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Show Credits: Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed

Description: You remember the plot. You love the characters. You know "the song." It's no less than the stage adaptation of one of the most celebrated and beloved films of all time.

1920's Hollywood is the setting for this zany, light-hearted romantic comedy about the early days of sound film, when many a movie studio found itself scrambling to salvage the career of its chipmunk-voiced silent picture star.

The MGM classic has been faithfully and lovingly adapted by Broadway legends Betty Comden and Adolph Green from their original award-winning screenplay. Each unforgettable scene, song and dance, is accounted for, including the showstopping title number, complete with an onstage rainstorm! Hilarious situations, snappy dialogue, and a hit-parade score of Hollywood standards make SINGIN' IN THE RAIN the perfect entertainment for any fan of the golden age of movie musicals.

Accolades/
Awards: The original film was one of the first pictures inducted by Congress to the National Film Registry, which was created to honor and preserve those films most intrinsic to the history of American filmmaking and culture.

Insight from the experts Casting Tip: Star vehicle - male

Staging Tip: Outside and inside Graumann's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood Boulevard, a movie mogul's mansion, a sound stage, a vocal coach's office, Don's house, a rainy street. Plus colorful costumes and decorations. A break-away tux jacket, several hysterical on-stage movies, a girl-in-the-cake cake, and of course, the famous rain scene. If you can't actually film your actors for the movie sequences, there's a list of other suggestions in the perusal, from on-stage actors to videotape. Don't be frightened by the rain sequence. Several suggestions are listed in our catalog (page 24) and on our website. Among them are: 1) a self-contained wagon set with a recess for puddles; 2) several quick mirrored balls and a pinspot to simulate rain; 3) a motorized "rain wheel" attachment to the lights; 4) a tapeloop of rain projected onto a scrim; 5) paper or metallic confetti; 6) carefully hidden troughs of water where Don can splash.