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Show Credits: Book by Martin Charnin
Music by Martin Charnin and Marvin Hamlisch and David Finkle
Book by Denis Markell
Music by Billy Weeden
Book by Douglas Bernstein
Sketches, Music and Lyrics by Michael Abbott and Sally Fay and Ronny Graham and Michael Leeds and Brian Lasser
Music by Thomas Meehan
Sketches, Music and Lyrics by Sarah Weeks

Description: A bevy of accomplished Broadway and off-Broadway composers and writers have created the ultimate revue. THE NO-FRILLS REVUE is a melodic, “not liable to date in our lifetime” satire: a sort of musical Saturday Night Live!

Conceived by director/lyricist Martin Charnin (ANNIE), THE NO-FRILLS REVUE takes its cue from the brilliantly sardonic topical revues of the 1950's, employing original songs, sketches, a small cast and trio of musicians in an hilarious all-out assault on the world as we know it: onomatopoetic names; the terrors of a high school reunion; extravagant rock concert benefits for obscure causes; ginsu knives; obligatory tap numbers; people who go through the ten-item express lane with twenty; and some intriguing “first drafts” of well-known musicals, including ANNIE as written by Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman's WEST SIDE STORY.

Performed without intermission, this snappy, fast-paced revue is guaranteed not to bore, run on or wrinkle with age.

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