Overview
ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME is a critically acclaimed new musical comedy with a tongue-in-cheek script by Tony Award®-winner Joe DiPietro (MEMPHIS and ALL SHOOK UP). In this wildly inventive and romantic adventure, a sleep-deprived single mom who makes her living as a video game music composer is contacted across space and time, via a crossed connection on her cell phone, by the famous early 20th century polar explorer Ernest Shackleton while he is stranded on an iceberg in the Antarctic in the early 1900s. Inspired by her music, he shares his epic journey with her and, together, they overcome the odds in a timeless, and very funny, musical romance for the ages.
Casting & Production
Casting
ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME is intended for two actors.
KAT — A musical whiz and a downtown creator of abstract operas. An exhausted
mother of a newborn, she is doing her best to embrace the bohemian life.
ERNEST — A boisterous and strapping Antarctic explorer. Also a committed optimist
and probably a lot of fun at parties. He enters a room with admirable gusto.
The actor who plays Ernest Shackleton also plays the following roles (some may be prerecorded):
BRUCE — Kat’s problematic boyfriend
MADISON — Kat’s problematic employer
PONCE DE LEON — a very Spanish explorer
JACQUES COUSTEAU — a very French explorer
DEBBBIE — a Bruce groupie
BRAVE & HEARTY MEN — Sea Chanty back-ups
INSTRUCTIONAL VOICE
Setting
Time
Today. Winter.
Place
A room, brimming with electronic musical gear — keyboards, laptops, cassette machines, an electric violin. The room reflects the messy clutter of a creative mind. There is a large video screen above it all.
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