Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin
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Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin is a musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and a book by Curtis and Thomas Meehan
. The show is based on the life of Charlie Chaplin
.
in 2006. The show was put on at the La Jolla Playhouse
from September 19, 2010 to October 17, 2010. The show was directed by Warren Carlyle
and Michael Unger, scenic design Alexander Dodge, costume designer Linda Cho, lighting designer Paul Gallo
, projection designer Zachary Borovay
, sound designer Jon Weston, music director Bryan Perri, orchestrator Douglas Besterman
, dramaturg Gabriel Greene, stage manager Frank Hartenstein, script consultant and physical comedy specialist Dan Kamin.
The cast features Robert McClure (Charlie Chaplin), Ashley Brown
(Oona
), LJ Benet (Young Sydney), Jenn Colella
(Hedda Hopper
), Eddie Korbich
(Karno
), Brooke Sunny Moriber (Mildred
), Ron Orbach (Mr. Chaplin), Roland Rusinek (Alf), Jake Schwenke (Young Charlie/Jackie), and Matthew Scott (Sydney
). The cast also had Aaron Acosta, Courtney Corey, Matthew Patrick Davis, Justin Michael Duval, Sara Edwards, Ben Liebert, Alyssa Marie, Jennifer Noble, Kürt Norby, Carly Nykanen, Jessica Reiner-Harris, and Kirsten Scott.
Thomas Meehan (writer)
Thomas Meehan is an American writer, best known for Annie, The Producers and Hairspray.-Life and career:Meehan grew up in Suffern, New York, and graduated from Hamilton College...
. The show is based on the life of Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
.
Productions
It was originally seen at the New York Musical Theatre FestivalNew York Musical Theatre Festival
The New York Musical Theatre Festival is an annual three-week fall Festival which presents more than thirty new musicals at venues in New York City's midtown theater district...
in 2006. The show was put on at the La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. -Background:...
from September 19, 2010 to October 17, 2010. The show was directed by Warren Carlyle
Warren Carlyle
Warren Carlyle is a director and choreographer who was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England. He received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Director of a Musical for Finian's Rainbow.-Biography:...
and Michael Unger, scenic design Alexander Dodge, costume designer Linda Cho, lighting designer Paul Gallo
Paul Gallo
For the radio host of the same name, see Paul Gallo .Paul Gallo is an award-winning American theatrical lighting designer....
, projection designer Zachary Borovay
Zachary Borovay
Zachary Borovay is a projection and multi-media designer working primarily in Broadway, Off Broadway, US regional and international performance venues....
, sound designer Jon Weston, music director Bryan Perri, orchestrator Douglas Besterman
Doug Besterman
Douglas "Doug" Besterman is an American orchestrator, musical arranger and music producer. He is the recipient of three Tony Awards out of five total nominations and two Drama Desk Awards out of six total nominations, and was a 2009 Grammy Award nominee.- Career :Besterman found work in New York...
, dramaturg Gabriel Greene, stage manager Frank Hartenstein, script consultant and physical comedy specialist Dan Kamin.
The cast features Robert McClure (Charlie Chaplin), Ashley Brown
Ashley Brown
Ashley Brown is an actress who is best known for playing the title character in the United States national tour and Broadway productions of Mary Poppins.-Career:...
(Oona
Oona O'Neill
Oona, Lady Chaplin was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and writer Agnes Boulton, and the wife of British actor, director and producer Charlie Chaplin....
), LJ Benet (Young Sydney), Jenn Colella
Jenn Colella
Jennifer Lin Colella is an American actress and singer, best known for her work in Broadway musicals.Jenn Colella has been a familiar face in the New York theatre scene since starring as Sissy in Urban Cowboy on Broadway, for which she received an Outer Critic's Circle Award Nomination.Since then,...
(Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns.-Early life:...
), Eddie Korbich
Eddie Korbich
Eddie Korbich is an actor, singer, dancer. He was born in Washington, D.C. but grew up in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.-1980s:He graduated from the Boston Conservatory with a B.F.A...
(Karno
Fred Karno
Frederick John Westcott , best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was a theatre impresario of the British music hall. Karno is credited with inventing the custard-pie-in-the-face gag. Among the young comedians who worked for him were Charlie Chaplin and Arthur Jefferson, who later adopted the...
), Brooke Sunny Moriber (Mildred
Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris was an American film actress. Harris began her career in the film industry as a popular child actress at age eleven. At the age of fifteen, she was cast as a harem girl in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance . She appeared as a leading lady through the 1920s but her career slowed with...
), Ron Orbach (Mr. Chaplin), Roland Rusinek (Alf), Jake Schwenke (Young Charlie/Jackie), and Matthew Scott (Sydney
Sydney Chaplin
Sydney Chaplin was an English actor. He was the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin and served as his business manager, and the half-uncle of the actor Sydney Chaplin , who was named after him.-Early life:...
). The cast also had Aaron Acosta, Courtney Corey, Matthew Patrick Davis, Justin Michael Duval, Sara Edwards, Ben Liebert, Alyssa Marie, Jennifer Noble, Kürt Norby, Carly Nykanen, Jessica Reiner-Harris, and Kirsten Scott.