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Charlotte Sweet
''Charlotte Sweet'' is an all-sung, all-rhymed original musical with libretto by Michael Colby and music by Gerald Jay Markoe. It is a sequel to ''Ludlow Ladd'' (1979), a comic Christmas musical that Colby and Markoe created for The Lyric Theatre of New York, off-off Broadway.
==Background==
The musical was developed via a series of flukes. Juilliard trained composer Gerald Jay Markoe was seeking a lyricist when he contacted veteran Broadway producer and agent, Charles Abramson, whose name was the first one listed under "Agents" in the Yellow Pages. Abramson recommended Michael Colby. Colby and Markoe's first collaboration, a musical version of Jean Anouilh's ''Time Remembered (Léocadia)'', was given a staged reading, starring Maria Karnilova, at The Lyric Theatre of New York (off-off Broadway). Neal Newman, the company's artistic director, asked Colby and Markoe (both Jewish) to write a Christmas show for the company. The result was ''Ludlow Ladd'', an all-sung, all-rhymed musical whose Dickensian plot unfolds through original Christmas carols. In the cast was a soprano recommended by Neal Newman: Mara Beckerman, whose unusually high voice impressed the writers. Colby and Markoe had such fun on that show, they decided to write a sequel spotlighting Mara Beckerman's high voice, and revolving around other holidays, St. Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve (A final Colby/Markoe musical in this trilogy, ''Happy Haunting'', revolves around Halloween). As Colby and Markoe developed the first musical with Christmas carols, they frame-worked ''Charlotte Sweet'' around British music-hall turns (on the recommendation of comedienne Elizabeth Wolynski, who also happened to be photographer for ''Ludlow Ladd''). Ultimately, ''Charlotte Sweet'' encompassed three forms of theatre most popular in Victorian England: melodrama, Gilbert & Sullivan style operetta, and music hall. The musical had several other influences. One was Sergei Prokofiev's ''Peter and the Wolf''—the musical's personalities are defined by their vocal types, just as animals were defined by musical instruments in Prokofiev's piece. Colby was also strongly inspired by the all-rhymed musical sequences of lyricists John LaTouche (''The Golden Apple''), E.Y. Harburg (''The Wizard of Oz''), and especially Lorenz Hart (Colby was researcher for the biography written by Hart's sister-in-law Dorothy Hart: ''Thou Swell, Thou Witty: The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart''). A final influence was the ''Fractured Fairy Tales'' cartoons of Jay Ward.
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