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LITTLE TRAMP

Book, Music and Lyrics by David Pomeranz
(Book co-written by Steven David Horwich)

Administered for rental and amateur stage rights by Boosey & Hawkes in the UK.

Licensing performances

If you wish to apply to perform the musical, then please send an email to musicals@boosey.com stating the following information only:

1) Name of school/society

2) Where you are (city/town)

3) What you want to perform (Little Tramp)

4) When you want to perform (if exact dates are not yet known, then please provide the month)

We will then send you an application form by email to complete, along with details of costs involved. Once the form is completed and returned by email, a licence will be emailed to you for signature. Once signed we will be able to send you the music at the date requested on your application form.

Details of hire requirements should be submitted on the application form.  Please note that you must use live musicians and the use of a backing track is strictly forbidden.

Information

INFORMATION
Piano only


THE STORY
Little Tramp is an inspired musical telling of Charlie Chaplin’s story chronicling his dramatic rise, fall…and ultimate triumph. The musical opens in 1971 at the Academy Awards Ceremony in LA where an 82 year old Charlie is about to receive a special life achievement award. This is a bitter sweet affair, filled with mixed emotions because of his being barred from re-entry into the US 20 years previously. Little Tramp plays in many ways like a Chaplin movie, showing the little man overcoming enormous odds in a very funny, touching and powerful way. From the depths of poverty, through his determination and talent, he became one of the best known and beloved human beings on the face of the earth. The musical covers his humorous confrontations with the early “established” way of making silent pictures, his creation of the “Little Tramp” character, his unfortunate marriages and trumped-up press scandals, the FBI branding him a Communist (which he was not) and his eventual exile from the United States. In the moving finale Charlie is once again reconciled with the public and, perhaps for the first time with himself.


PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin (age 9)
Sydney Chaplin
Sydney Chaplin (age 9)
Hannah Chaplin
Oona Chaplin
Mack Sennett
Tippy Gray


PRINCIPAL MUSICAL NUMBERS
In America Again (Charlie)
This Is What I Dreamed (Oona)
Heaven (Charlie and Sydney)
Caviar and Cake (Charlie aged 9)
Number One (Charlie aged 9)
Something No-one Can Ever Take Away (Hannah, Charlie (9), Sydney (9))
Chaplin Films (Company)
Thank You (Company)
I Got Me A Red (Tippy Gray)
Too Many Words (Charlie)


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