Duet!
Play Description
The Off-Broadway hit that spoofs the mating game. Kitschy, stylized, and romantic, DUET! takes on old movies and old values with stiletto-sharp humor.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)Full Length Comedy (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“… This is the sort of comic impertinence at which Adobe Theater Company excels, and which bubbles forth with effervescent glee in DUET!, the downtown troupe’s offbeat lampoon of the American way of mating. The show … is a delightful sendup of that wholesome staple, the boy-meets-girl story, and at the same time a bewitching spoof of the tacky Hollywood and Broadway values that over the years have made that story such a wonderfully easy target … As much as it’s intended to poke fun at modern romance, DUET! supplies a funny, running commentary on modern entertainment … the production plays continually with our collective show-biz sophistication. OKLAHOMA-style dream sequences, burlesque comics, B-movie melodramatics and even the Muppets come in for some delectable ribbing.” —Peter Marks, The New York Times
“… In DUET! … the [adobe theater] company has a winner on its hands … With an onstage beatnik on the drums, a session with a Hula-Hoop and a ’50s beer jingle greeting us as we arrive at the theater, there’s no mistaking the era being evoked. But if DUET is very much about yearning for a more innocent time than our own, it is also informed by an up-to-the-minute, downtown esthetic that entails collage — or cultural pastiche — and self-parody. The action quickly comes to focus on the head-over-heels romance between Marcia … and Mike …” —David Kaufman, Daily News
“… DUET! is a fast, loose and totally demented love story, which parodies all things fabulistic — from Aesop’s tales to 1950s Americana. Along the way, the sharp eight-member ensemble gets to poke fun at exotic dancers, cheesy emcees, embarrassing parents, horny frogs and singing trees (don’t ask) …” —Erik Jackson, Time Out
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
First produced by Adobe Theater Company, New York
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypub.com