Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman! The Musical; or, Red, White, and Blaine
Broadway really likes turning movies into musicals. Some people love it. Some people hate it. We're in it for the dream-casting opportunities. So instead of waiting for the next Notebook, or Devil Wears Prada, or Almost Famous, or Mystic Pizza (seriously, there are a million of them), we picked one of our favorite titles and dreamed up not just a cast list, but a fully conceptualized, guaranteed blockbuster musical.
Broadway producers — feel free to thank us at the Tony Awards.
Plot Summary
Small town Blaine, Missouri, is getting ready for its sesquicentennial celebration, and the town's favorite auteur, Corky St. Clair, has cooked up a brand-new musical to headline the festivities. Gather 'round the campfire for Red, White, and Blaine, a story of (mid)westward discovery, alien invasion, and the biggest stool boom America has ever seen. The Blaine Community Players smell a hit. But could it even make it to Broadway? That all depends on one man…
Creative Team
Music and lyrics by Spinal Tap, with additional contributions by Mitch & Mickey
Book by Eugene Levy
Directed and choreographed by Ivo van Hove
Company
Andrew Rannells: Corky St. Clair, founder of Blaine Community Players, former off-off-off-off-Broadway actor, author, and director of Red, White, and Blaine
Christopher Fitzgerald: Lloyd Miller, exasperated music director
Annaleigh Ashford: Libby Mae Brown, Dairy Queen employee, really good at the splits
Tony Shalhoub: Dr. Allan Pearl, dentist, grandson of Yiddish theater star Chaim Pearlgut
Stephanie J. Block: Mrs. Allan Pearl, dentist's wife, Scrabble club member
Marc Kudisch: Ron Albertson, travel agent, experienced community theater actor
Kerry Butler: Sheila Albertson, travel agent, Ron's wife, is learning to change her instincts or at least ignore them
Reed Birney: Clifford Wooley, took a correspondence course in taxidermy
Jeremy Jordan: Johnny Savage, sexy mechanic
Songs
Act 1
Nothing Ever Happens in Blaine – Company
It's a Sesquicentennial Musical! – Corky St. Clair
Just Doin' the Cones – Libby Mae Brown
Never Been Anywhere but Blaine (Except That One Time I Went to Jefferson City) – Ron and Sheila Albertson
One Day I'll Have a Hit on (Off-Off-Off-Off) Broadway – Corky St. Clair
Music Director's Lament – Lloyd Miller
Audition Sequence: Teacher's Pet (Libby Mae Brown); I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair / Camptown Races / Swanee River / Bubby Made a Kishka (Dr. Allan Pearl); Midnight at the Oasis (Ron and Sheila Albertson)
Hankerin' to Be an Actor – Clifford Wooley
Hell Hole – Johnny Savage
Zip Zap Zop (A Rehearsal Montage) – Company
We May Be Going to Broad-way! – Corky St. Clair and Company
Act 2
Corky Has a Wife Named Bonnie? – Mrs. Allan Pearl and Company
Bastard People – Corky St. Clair
I Am Taking Over! – Lloyd Miller
Back to the Dairy Queen / Nothing Ever Happens in Blaine (Reprise) – Libby Mae Brown
Corky's Turn – Corky St. Clair
It's the Day of the Show, Y'all – Libby Mae Brown and Company
Red, White, and Blaine Act 1: Covered Wagons / Stool Boom – Company
Waiting for Guffman – Company
Red, White, and Blaine Act 2: A Penny for Your Thoughts / Nothing Ever Happens on Mars / Patriotic Finale – Company
The Remains of the Day: Life's a Little Lunch Box – Corky St. Clair and Company
