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Music By Polly Pen
Lyrics By Laurence Klavan
Type of Musical: Off-Broadway
Opened: February 1, 1996
Theatre: Vineyard Theatre, (New York)
Licensing Agent: Dramatists Play Service ,Inc.
Synopsis
In Moscow, in 1926, a housing crisis rages. In a cramped apartment, Ludmilla, a put-upon housewife, lives in dreamy complacency with her cheerful despot of a husband, Kolya. When one day, Kolya's handsome comrade, Volodya, arrives from the country, but can find no lodgings, Kolya offers him their sofa. When Kolya returns early from a business trip, he is shocked to discover that Ludmilla and Volodya have become lovers. Kolya moves out, but there is still nowhere to live, so he reluctantly returns, taking the sofa, leaving Ludmilla and Volodya the bed. Kolya stalls the new couple's lovemaking with endless games of checkers, so that slowly, to Ludmilla's frustration, Volodya becomes more interested in the manly sport of checkers than in sex. Finally, Volodya reveals himself to be just as much a domestic despot as Kolya. So Ludmilla banishes Volodya to the sofa and takes the bed for herself. Ludmilla's "marriage" to the two men has already had its consequence as she is pregnant. The two men bicker over who is the father and finally decree: Ludmilla must have an abortion. Acquiescing, Ludmilla waits her turn in a frighteningly efficient clinic. But seeing a living, breathing baby out the window convinces her to leave, without the procedure. She packs up and abandons her two "husbands," declaring them unworthy to be fathers, and Kolya and Volodya find themselves alone in the close Moscow flat. They have no choice: as Ludmilla rides alone into the exciting unknown, Kolya takes the bed and Volodya the sofa.
Song List
- Anthem
- Train, The
- My Name
- Lunch/Without My Work
- Night, The
- War, The
- Bed & Sofa #1 (Volodya Moves In)
- 13 Meschanskaia Lane
- News!/"Over The Moon"
- Bed & Sofa #2 (Ludmilla & Volodya Are Alone)
- Silent Movie
- Bed & Sofa #3 (Ludmilla & Volodya Go To Bed)
- Kolya's Return/Beans
- Big & Complicated
- Do You Mean To Stay Here?/Without My Wife
- Night/"Over The Moon", The - (Reprise)
- Back & Forth
- Bed & Sofa #4 (Kolya Takes The Sofa)
- Checkers
- I Am Hungry
- Dressing Screen, The
- Walk, A
- U.S.S.R
- Bed & Sofa #5 (Volodya Takes The Sofa)
- To Have A Child
- Abortion
- Her Husband
- Letter, The
- Ending, The
Cast List
Terri Klausner, Martin Moran, Jason Workman, Michael X. Martin, Polly Pen
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Added: Sun May 15 2005
Last Modified: Wed Nov 15 2006