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Book, Music and Lyrics By Bob Walton, Jim Walton
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Articles & Interviews
10/1/2006 Volume 13, Issue 2, Fall DYNAMIC DUOBrothers Bob and Jim Walton have tap danced and crooned countless times on the Broadway stage and have written together since 1991.
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1/1/2007 Volume 13, Issue 3, Winter IT'S A WONDERFUL MID-LIFE!In February of 2006, R&H heard from our friends in Minnesota at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre that they had recently opened a new musical revue, entitled MID-LIFE.
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5/1/2007 Volume 14, Issue 1, Spring R&H Theatricals World Premiere Weekend Easter Parade & Mid-Life! The Crisis MusicalWarm spring weather in Minnesota provided an appropriate setting for a World Premiere Weekend
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Critic Quotes
“The polished, fall-out-of-your-seat-funny show is woven of a series of vignettes dealing with classic mid-life phenomena—all unpleasant, virtually all hilarious!”
C. Waldemar, Lavender Magazine
“This musical revue is a little stroke of genius!”
Dominic Papatola, Pioneer Press
“MID-LIFE! is worth remembering…if you can!”
D. Jansen, SW Publications
Facts & Figures
- September 13, 2004 Appeared in the 2004 New York Musical Theater Festival
Musical Numbers
Welcome To Mid-Life (The Company)
resources/Audios/103209_1595_01.mp3
Welcome To Mid-Life (The Company)
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 1. Prologue (The Company)
 2. Welcome To Mid-Life (The Company)
3. Lies! (The Company)
4. Turning Forty (Man 1)
5. Biological Clock (Woman 2, Man 3, Man 2)
6. Welcome To Mid-Life (Reprise 1) (Woman 2, Man 3, Man 2)
7. Weekend Warriors (The Men)
8. When He Laughs (Woman 3)
9. A Trip To The Doctor (Man 1, Woman 2, Woman 1, Woman 3, Man 3)
10. Side Effects (Man 1, Woman 2, Woman 1, Woman 3, Man 3)
11. Welcome to Mid-Life (Reprise 2) (Man 1, Woman 2, Woman 1, Woman 3, Man 3)
12. My Lost Love (Man 3)
13. Some Kids (Woman 3, Man 3, Man 2, Woman 2)
14. I Quit! (The Company)
15. What Did I Come In Here For? (Man 1, Woman 1, Man 2, Woman 3)
16. Turning Fifty (Man 1, Woman 1, Man 2, Woman 3)
17. Boys Night In (The Men)
18. He Got What He Deserves (The Women)
19. Another Trip To The Doctor (Man 1, Man 3, Woman 3)
20. Classical Menopause (The Company)
21. Welcome To Mid-Life (Reprise 3) (The Company)
22. The Long Goodbye (Woman 1, Woman 3, Man 2)
23. I'm Not Ready (The Company)
24. Bows/ Welcome To Mid-Life Finale (The Company)
25. Exit Music (The Company)
Discography
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Mid-life! the Crisis Musical
Label: Older Daddy Music
Release date: January 1, 2007
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Rental Materials
| Rehearsal Set (20 Books, 1 Logo CD) |
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1 Logo CD
| 10 Piano Vocal Score
| 10 Libretto
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1 Keyboard I (Conductor Score)
| 1 Drums
| 1 Keyboard II
| 1 Reed
| 1 Bass
| | | | LIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL Perusal Package |
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1 Libretto
| 1 Piano Vocal Score
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Writer's Notes
Jim and Bob Walton, After writing and performing in our DOUBLE TROUBLE (A Musical Tour de Farce), a very physically demanding show for two actors in which we played some 12 different characters, we began talking about what to write next. We knew one thing - we wanted there to be more than two people on stage, and hopefully at least one actual female, instead of us in drag. We’d always been drawn to the revue format, but finding a universally appealing topic with comic potential was no easy task. Then, an old adage came to mind: Write what you know. We stared at each other blankly (something we do quite often), realizing we’d stumbled upon the idea of MID-LIFE! Baby boomers growing older, the body changing, medical issues, empty nest, divorce—sounds like a laugh riot, doesn't it? As writers, we were instinctively drawn to heavy and dramatic interpretations of those experiences, but our challenge was to limit them to one or two and make the bulk of the show more comic and upbeat. Over the course of two years, we work-shopped the material in numerous readings and presentations. Each time, we learned a great deal, then went back to write another mid-life moment. Then another, and another. Luckily, (and sadly) there seemed to be a plethora of experiences to draw on! In closing, we hope and feel we’ve created an enjoyable show, filled with lots of laughter and threads of bittersweetness. We hope that even your mid-life audiences will find our show hard to forget.
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