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Overview

Synopsis

A Doll's Life is the musical sequel to Ibsen's play A Doll's House. The show focuses on Nora and her experiences when she leaves home and heads for Christiania, as Oslo was known in 1879. Borrowing the fare from a young violinist, Otto, she takes the train to Christiania, where she accepts work in a cafe and soon becomes involved not only with Otto, but Eric Didrickson, the wealthy owner of shipping lines and fish canneries, and Johan Blecker, a lawyer, as well. Throughout the show, scenes in her new life mingle with intermittent flashbacks to the one she left behind.

Show Information

Category
Musical
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Number of Acts
2
First Produced
1982
Genres
Drama
Cast Size
large
Ideal For
Mostly Male Cast, Large Cast

Characters

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Character Portrayals

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Songs

Act I

  • Prologue
  • A Woman Alone
  • Letter to the Children
  • New Year's Eve
  • Stay With Me, Nora
  • Arrival
  • Loki and Baldur
  • You Interest Me
  • Departure
  • Letter From Klemnacht
  • Learn to Be Lonely
  • Rats and Mice and Fish
  • Jailer, Jailer
  • Excerpts From Loki and Baldur
  • Rare Wines

Act II

  • No More Mornings
  • There She Is
  • Power
  • Letter to the Children (Reprise)
  • At Last
  • The Grand Cafe
  • Finale

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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