Overview
Synopsis
North Atlantic is a comic valentine to the genre of Rodgers and Hammerstein, set in Eskimo Land. With South Pacific its closest touchstone, this family musical features elements reminiscent of the R & H classics, as well as the Golden Age of the Broadway musical. Every ridiculous cliché has been thrown in in for good musical measure.
Yet North Atlantic is more than a takeoff that demonstrates the craziness of its genre. It also works, uniquely, as a madcap Eskimo story. Just as The Flintstones evolved from The Honeymooners, North Atlantic — akin to Family Guy spoofs—takes its origins and springboards into its own idiomatic lunacy.
The show tells how Honey Snodgrass and Melanie Fong, members of the Iowa branch of the Teaching Corps, visit this exotic region, finding romance, bigotry, and the dream ballet to end all dream ballets.
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Context
North Atlantic originally played a sell-out theatrical run at the Gene Frankel Work Shop in New York City. The critics who attended were highly favorable. Henry Hewes, one-time president of the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle, called the musical “The best of the year” and the Show Business newspaper awarded North Atlantic as “Outstanding Production of the Year”.
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Character Portrayals
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Monologues
Songs
ACT ONE
- Overture Orchestra
- The Happier Side - Honey, Melanie, Essie
- Where the Hell is Annie? - Eskimo Men
- Someting Special - Eskimo Annie, Voices
- Before I Fall - Honey, Eskimo Men
- Now is Here - Essie,Melanie, Nanook, Eskimo Annie, & Eskimos
- Duo Thoughts - Honey, Sir William
- I’ve Held a Hope - Sir William
- The Sleigh With the Cream Colored Team - Sandy Shore, Melanie
- The Sign Song - Honey, Eskimo Students
- There’s a Rainbow at the End - Essie
- Raising an Igloo - Company
- Solo Thoughts - Sir William
ACT TWO
- Entr’acte - Orchestra
- Reprise: The Happier Side - Honey, Nanook, Eskimo Students
- Erase Him - Honey, Melanie, Essie
- And Ya Won’t Compain - Sandy Shore, Melanie
- North Atlantic - Company
- Who’d Have Guessed It? - Honey, Sir William
- Deep In My Mind - Honey
- Ballet - Company
- Reindeer Moss - Company
- Finale - Company
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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Alexandra Appleton
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