Please join us for our February 27th reading of the 1962 musical, No Strings. The show was the first for Richard Rodgers after Oscar Hammerstein's death, and the only time he wrote a full score (both music & lyrics) without a collaborator. The book was written by Samuel Taylor, who may be best known for the film Sabrina (and the original play, Sabrina Fair, on which it was based).No Strings is the story of an American fashion model, living in Paris, and an expatriate American novelist whom she meets and falls in love with. The show debuted during the early part of the civil rights era. The script notes that the model, Barbara, is African-American, but no mention of her race or race in general is ever raised in the story. Rodgers got the idea for casting a black actress in the star role after viewing Diahann Carroll on The Tonight Show. According to his biographer, Geoffrey Holden, "He felt that the casting spoke for itself and any specific references to race in the play were unnecessary."
Our reading will take place on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27th at 7pm at Sherman Clay Pianos (NW 13th & Davis, PDX). To sign up for a role, please visit: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/nostrings
As always, you can arrive anytime between 6pm and 7pm to review sections of music with our accompanist (who, this month, is Mont Christopher Hubbard). If you are still in need of a copy of the score or script (please bring your own to the reading), let me know.
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