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'Girls' Night' by Louise Roche - songs and additional information.


'Girls' Night' by Louise Roche
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Songs
The following songs are suggestions; other songs may be used at the discretion of the production. Performance rights for the script do not include rights for songs.
Song #Song
1Young Hearts Run Free (David Crawford. Sung By: Candi Staton)
2At Seventeen (Janis Ian)
3I Say A Little Prayer (Hal David & Burt Bacharach. Sung By: Dionne Warwick)
4I’m Every Woman (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson. Sung By: Chaka Khan or Whitney Houston)
5I Will Survive (Freddie Perren & Dino Fekaris. Sung By: Gloria Gaynor )
6The Love Of My Man (Ed Townsend. Sung By: Theola Kilgore)
7It’s Raining Men (Paul Jabara & Paul Shaffer. Sung By: The Weather Girls)
8I Am What I Am (Jerry Herman)
9Dancing Queen (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson. Sung By: Abba)
10Don’t Cry Out Loud (Music: Peter Allen. Lyrics: Carol Bayer Sager. Sung By: Elkie Brookes or Shirley Bassey )
11Cry Me A River (Arthur Hamilton. Sung By: Julie London )
12We Are Family (Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers. Sung By: Sister Sledge )
13Dancing Queen (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson. Sung By: Abba)
14Its Raining Men (Paul Jabara & Paul Shaffer. Sung By: The Weather Girls)
Period and Geography
Location: England. Time Period: Now
Settings and Set Complexity
Number of Sets: 1
Setting: Cafe/Bar/Restaurant
Set Requirements: Backdrops/simple flats
The script includes characters in the following age range(s):
21 to 35
36 to 50
 Language Advisory:Help
Swearing rate: 2 rude words per thousand
We have identified the following types of language in the text:
Sexual swearwords
Offensive names for body parts
Mild swearwords
Potential blasphemy
Sexual slurs
In addition to the text, the "Producer's Copy" of the Script includes the following:
A list of the required properties
A list of the suggested songs
Style:
Set largely in and around a karaoke night club, with occasional rapid flashbacks (implying figurative sets rather than realistic locations). Simple props, give or take the moped.
Synopsis:
Sharon's daughter, Candi-Rose is getting married, and Sharon has joined her friends on a celebration night out. And the fact that Sharon has been dead for twenty years isn't going to spoil her enjoyment one little bit! Her friends laugh, cry, fight and sing in this joyous evocation of a group out to enjoy life, despite its trials and complications.
Awards (won by this script or performances of the script):
2009 Off-Broadway production extended after sell-out of initial 8-week run.

 
 

 
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