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MP3 The Green Room - the Musical - EASY LISTENING: Musicals/Broadway
17 MP3 Songs
EASY LISTENING: Musicals/Broadway, ROCK: Folk Rock
Details:
Music and Lyrics: Chuck Pelletier
Book by C. Stephen Foster and Rod Damer
FEATURING:
Kirsten Gronfield as ANNA
Karen Volpe as DIVONNE
Brandon Burton as CLIFF
Patrick Killoran as JOHN
Drums: Matt North
Bass: Clint Davidson
Piano/Guitar: Chuck Pelletier
Original Cast Soundtrack CD of the new live stage Pop-Rock musical THE GREEN ROOM - a four character musical that traces the college careers of four students and their struggles to relate to each other, to find a place in the world around them, and to prepare to jump off the precipice of sheltered life into the real world.
Music that is current but wide in range from Pop to Rock to Sondheim to Blues.
The comedy song "It''s All About Me" was the winner of the 2005 Songwriter''s Guild of America Musical Song of the Year.
ACT I
The play opens with Anna, 32 years old, addressing her classmates at a ten-year St. Nordoff reunion. She tells them that nothing in college stuck with her except one room: the green room in the theatre building, her college hang-out. She gets lost in memory as the green room is revealed behind her, and she turns 20 again, stepping back in time (IN THE GREEN ROOM). Divonne, a force of nature, storms into the room denouncing the theatre professors, and they both agree that if they are going to make it in theatre, they will need to learn from each other, there, in the green room. Anna''s geeky little brother Cliff arrives and Divonne immediately turns her sexual energy toward him. John, Anna''s cocksure but emotionally unavailable boyfriend, enters to chide Cliff, but Anna convinces John that Cliff belongs in the club (WE''VE GOT STYLE). John, an insatiable womanizer who is on the outs with Anna, decides that if he is going to have to hang out with Cliff, he must turn the geeky Cliff into a stud, and he attempts to coach Cliff about the women on campus (BACHELOR''S ANTHEM). Four weeks later, Cliff shows he''s a fast learner when Divonne reveals she is pregnant with Cliff''s baby. Instead of being troubled by this news, Cliff is elated about his ability to produce offspring (NOTHING CAN STOP MY BOYS). Anna is livid - this does not fit in with her plan at all. John parlays this news into an attempt to convince the conservative Anna to give up her virginity to him (WHAT DO I THINK OF ME?).
In the midst of all this relational mayhem, they are all cast opposite each other in the fall musical "God Songs" - a terribly-written hodgepodge tribute to the Bible. Divonne is devastated that she, as always, did not get a lead role; she has been cast as the Burning Bush. Anna cracks the whip and makes them do a rehearsal of the production number (DON''T TRY TO PART THE WATER). Alone with Cliff, Divonne breaks the news to him that she''s not pregnant, and then lays out that she is breaking up with him for somebody else: a woman (I''VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU). The next day, Cliff is in deep depression when Anna comes in distraught by last night''s date with John, who is only interested in sex. Together they lament (THE ALL-YOU-WANNA-DO-IS-DO-ME BLUES). Anna and Cliff resolve to pull away from Divonne and John, but John enters and announces that he''s quitting school. Anna is confronted with the stark reality of what her life would be without him in it. They all try to convince him to stay, but he says it''s a decision he has to make (IN THE END).
ACT II
A slide montage of three years of the four characters in college serves as an overture to their final college event: their last collegiate all-nighter. It is 10pm, and Anna is on the warpath, since they are all planning to move to New York together in two weeks, and everything hinges on whether they all complete their graduation requirements and pass their classes. Divonne sits at a computer, struggling to crank out a 10-page research paper due in the morning. Cliff and John arrive and derail her thesis, convincing her to write an avant-garde leftist paper, which they all brainstorm together (DESTINATION: STAGE LEFT). While rifling through Anna''s purse, John discovers Anna''s master plan is to marry him when they get to the Big Apple. He is terrified of commitment and enlists Cliff''s aid to create a situation where Anna will want to break up with him, or at least postpone the idea of marriage. Divonne reveals to Anna that Cliff and John have failed to show up for most of their required Theater History lectures and might not graduate if they fail the final tomorrow. Knowing that this jeopardizes their move to New York City, Anna confronts them and demands they study, but they have their own agenda of making their last night on campus a party night. Divonne takes a break from her paper to work on a critical acting class monologue she is performing tomorrow, but gets distracted when she realizes that her college career has been a series of insignificant roles (IT''S ALL ABOUT ME).
When Anna finds Cliff and John still not on task, she takes extreme measures and attempts to blackmail John with the information that, while drunk at a party the night before, they videotaped him trying to seduce the ugliest girl on campus (THE GOOD-LOOKIN'' GIRLS ARE ALL GONE). John decides to study, at least for the moment. Cliff, however, is waxing melancholy about his school days coming to an end, and he starts to cry on Divonne''s shoulder, confessing that he still loves her. She consoles him, but urges him to move on with his life (IT COMES EASY). Anna finds John looking at porn magazines instead of his textbook, and finally has a serious confrontation with him, accusing him of behaving like a child his whole life. This is the out that the restless John is looking for; they have a fight which ends in a break-up. Alone, Anna blames herself, and vows to give up her moral, control-freak self and become the dangerous, loose woman that she believes John, the man she loves, would go for (I WANNA GO TO EXTREMES). She approaches John as a seductress, but John looks at her and tells her he doesn''t want "that" Anna. In a sudden realization that his love for Anna is based on the fact that she is "the only innocent girl in the world," he makes up with her and tells her that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Divonne enters and brings everyone back to the reality that their collective move to New York hinges on their ability to graduate tomorrow, and Anna reverts back to being the taskmaster, this time with the agreement of all four of them. As they start to hunker down for the long all-nighter of studying and writing that lies before them, they all reflect on the significance of the end of college. One by one, they reveal the true fears and hopes of their desires to make it in the world of professional theatre, standing on perhaps the biggest threshold of their lives: the transition from a sheltered academic life into the real world (WAITING IN THE WINGS).
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