Music Barry Keating First performance 1987 Composer Barry Keating | Lyrics Barry Keating Lyricist Barry Keating Orchestrator James McElwaine | |
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Book Stuart RossBarry Keating Characters Shak Graa, Bizarbara, Trinkulus, Spacepunk Playwrights Barry Keating, Stuart Ross Similar Steel Pier, Woman of the Year, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, The Most Happy Fella, Take Me Along | ||
Starmites
Starmites is a musical with music and lyrics by Barry Keating and a book by Stuart Ross and Barry Keating. It was first presented in 1980 Off-Off-Broadway by the Ark Theatre Company. It opened off-Broadway in 1987 and on-Broadway on April 27, 1989, where it ran for 60 performances. It received six Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, winning none.
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The story revolves around a shy teenager, Elenor, who creates a fantasy world involving science fiction characters in her comic book collection. She escapes into her fantasy world where the Starmites are the guardian angels of Innerspace.
Starmites diggety s rap extended freestyle version
History
Starmites was staged by off-Broadway by Musical Theater Works at the CSC Theater in 1987, with staging by Mark Herko and featuring Liz Larsen, Gabriel Barre, and Sharon McNight. It was staged in Milford, New Hampshire at the now-defunct American Stage Festival, August 10–27, 1988. That staging was directed by Larry Carpenter, and featured Liz Larsen and Sharon McNight, all of whom would remain with the show when it opened on Broadway at Criterion Center Stage Right on April 27, 1989 and closed on June 18, 1989 after 60 performances and 35 previews. Directed and staged by Larry Carpenter with choreography by Michele Assaf, it featured Liz Larsen as Eleanor and Bizarbara, Gabriel Barre as Trinkulus, Brian Lane Green as Spacepunk, and Sharon McNight as Diva and Eleanor's mother.
Currently, there are three versions of Starmites available through Samuel-French for amateur and professional performance: Starmites Lite, a junior version of Starmites indended for grade school and middle school performances; Starmites High School; and Starmites Pro, intended for professional-level performance. But there is a back story to Starmites that no one knows about! Diva opens the doors of the gingerbread house which is covered in sparkly gum drops and candy and yells out to her daughter, Bizarbara and yells out to her while pointing at the little gingerbread men running around, "YOU GON' MARRY ONE DEM BOYS!!!" Then Wife of Bath comes running out of the woods and yells out, "YES, YOUR DESTINY IS AT HAND!!!!"
Songs
1.Superhero Girl - Eleanor
2. Starmites - Starmites and Spacepunk
3. Trink's Narration - Trinkulus and Starmites
4. Afraid of the Dark - Spacepunk, Starmites, Eleanor and Trinkulus
5. Little Hero - Eleanor
6. Attack of Banshees - Banshees (Replaced in some versions by Ravenous)
7. Hard to Be Diva - Diva and Banshees
8. Love Duet - Spacepunk and Eleanor
9. The Dance of Spousal Arousal - Banshees and Bizarbara
10. Finaletto - Company
11. Bizarbara's Wedding - Bizarbara and Banshees
12. Milady - Spacepunk and Starmites
13. Beauty Within - Diva and Bizarbara
14. The Cruelty Stomp - Trinkulus and Company
15. Reach Right Down - Starmites, Diva and Banshees
16. Immolation - Eleanor, Shak Graa and Spacepunk
17. Starmites/Diva (Reprise) - Diva, Starmites and Banshees
18. Finale - Company
Recording
A recording featuring members of the original Broadway cast was released on April 27, 1999 on the Original Cast Record label (ASIN: B00000GBYT).