North Atlantic

Product Description Full-Length Play | “Playful entertainment—Outstanding Production of the Year!” –Show Business | North Atlantic is a uniquely affectionate and comic valentine to the classic style of Rodgers & Hammerstein, set in the land of igloos and ice! On a mysterious and remote island (somewhere on the opposite side of the globe from "South Pacific"), Honey Snodgrass and Melanie Fong, all-American members of the Ioway branch of the Teaching Corps, arrive to teach Eskimo children their ‘modern ways.’ As with any good R & H classic, the girls soon find unexpected romance, unintentional bigotry, and the dream ballet to end all dream ballets! With every ridiculous cliché thrown in for good measure, this charming family musical takes its origins and springboards into its own idiomatic lunacy. (Play: 5F, 5M, Ensemble) About the Author Michael Colby (Book & Lyrics) is the librettist/lyricist of such musicals as "Charlotte Sweet" (Drama Desk Award nomination), "Tales Of Tinseltown" (numerous productions), "North Atlantic" (Show Business Award), "Delphi Or Bust" (Amas Musical Theatre), "Ludlow Ladd" (various regional productions), "Slay It With Music" (off-Broadway and London), "They Chose Me!" (Tada!), and "MRS. McThing" (Goodspeed At Chester). He has written for The Theatre By the Blind, The 92nd Street Y, and numerous benefits. Among the personalities for whom Colby has written are: Angela Lansbury, Linda Lavin, Michael Feinstein, Tony Randall, Cicely Tyson, Susan Stroman, Paul Shaffer, Lainie Kazan, Jane Powell, and Julie Wilson. Recent projects include: "Dangerous," "They Changed Broadway" (a revue about Broadway Jewish talents) and "First Family Of Second Avenue" (cited by NJ Star Ledger as "Best Original Score of the New Jersey season"). Mr. Colby is a member of BMI and the Dramatists Guild. For more information, visit www.MichaelColby.com. James Fradrich (composer / co-lyricist) was Archivist/Concert Librarian/General Musical Consultant for Rodgers and Hammerstein. He also received an award for "Best Musical Score" for "The Musicians Of Bremen" at Wilmette, Illinois Children's Theatre. He was arranger and musical director for the hit off-Broadway musical "Boy Mets Boy." Other off-Broadway productions-as musical director and/or arranger-included "Carnival" (Equity Library Theatre), "Gift Of The Magi" (Players Theatre), "Babes In Arms" (Playwrights Horizons), "From Brooks With Love" (Harold Clurman), and "Man With A Loat Of Mischief" (The Production Company). He has served in the same capacity on several regional productions and toured as pianist/arranger on "I Am An American" (for USO). He was assistant to orchestrator William D. Brohn for the Broadway productions of "Miss Saigon," "The Secret Garden," and the first national tour of "Jerome Robbins' Broadway." He toured as pianist for the Columbia Artists Management with The First Gilbert & Sullivan Quartet and has played engagements with several symphony orchestras. Other awards have included State Winner Piano for Federated Music Clubs of Wisconsin and Finalist & Alternative Winner for Green Bay Symphony Concert Composition. He was a graduate of Lawrence University.