Overview
Creation is going exactly according to plan: Eve, curious about what lies beyond the garden, and positively perplexed with the idea of something that’s forbidden, eats the apple. Then Adam…doesn’t. Eden, we have a problem. How exactly God is going to get his children together so they can create the human race is anybody’s guess. At times hilarious, at times poignant, FALLING FOR EVE is an unconventional retelling of the world’s first love story. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, the first couple doesn’t get to happily ever after until they finally realize that paradise isn’t a place at all. As Adam ultimately tells Eve, “Paradise is You.”
Casting & Production
Casting
With the original New York cast, two general principles were applied when casting choices were made: (1) all characters should be young and beautiful (the thinking being that if God were to choose any form in which to appear, he/she would be young and gorgeous) and (2) the cast should, as much as possible, be multi-ethnic, reflecting the family of man.
ADAM: The first guy. As young as possible (late teens, early twenties.) Very attractive.
EVE: The first girl. Also as young as possible, but able to gracefully and believably age to about forty through the course of the play. Also beautiful.
GOD/HE: A young man.
GOD/SHE: A young woman (preferably a different ethnicity than the actor playing GOD/HE).
SARAH: An angel. Young woman.
MICHAEL: Another angel. As young as the others.
Note: While the show works very well vocally with the six vocalists described above, should the producers desire, the addition of an “angel chorus” to back up vocals and facilitate the production is also a possibility, and can offer additional performance opportunities and a bigger, more “celestial” sound.
Orchestral Information
5 Musicians
Piano/Conductor (Keyboard)
Reed (Flute, Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, Oboe, Alto Sax, Castanets)
Guitar (Electric)
Bass
Percussion (Drum Set, Glockenspiel, Cymbal, Bell, Wood Block, Finger Cymbal, Bongo, Congas, Mark Tree, Triangle, Timpani, Wind Chimes, Tribal drums)
Credits
FALLING FOR EVE
Book by JOE DIPIETRO, Music by BRET SIMMONS, Lyrics by DAVID HOWARD
Based on ADAM ALONE by DAVID HOWARD
Originally Produced Off-Broadway by The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) and 1113 Productions, Inc. (Steven Ullman, Executive Producer)
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