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PRETTY FACES - The Large & Lovely Musical: Piano Vocal Selections

by Robert W. Cabell

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Piano-vocal selections from a pageant-set backstage musical

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Piano-vocal selections from a pageant-set backstage musical

This 148-page songbook presents piano-vocal selections from Robert W. Cabell’s musical Pretty Faces. Set around the fictional Miss Global Glamour Beauty Pageant for plus-sized contestants, the musical frames rehearsals and the competition itself as women encounter glamour, rivalry, and camaraderie. Its cast includes feuding performers, a stage manager in love, a Southern baton twirler, and a wealthy contestant, while the audience is positioned as an observing force within the show’s pageant world. The collection is rooted in musical-theatre material that combines comic pageant situations with the contestants’ transformations onstage and behind the scenes.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Pianists and singers seeking musical-theatre repertoire
  • Fans of backstage and pageant-centered musicals
  • Performers interested in songs from Pretty Faces

Themes

Beauty pageantsSelf-image and transformationCompetition and camaraderieBackstage theatreGlamour

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Book overview

In PRETTY FACES, The "other girl next door" finds fame and glamour at a beauty pageant for plus-sized women in this backstage musical that takes place on and off stage at the fictitious Miss Global Glamour Beauty Pageant." There is a strong sense of camaraderie and healthy competition as the contestants share the wonder and novelty of being "Glamour Girls" for the first time in their lives. The audience is the Antagonist They watch and follow each contestant's Cinderella trans-formation, from day one of rehearsals to the crowning moment of truth. Complete with two feuding stars, a love-struck stage manager, a baton-twirling Southern belle, and a spoiled rich girl. The result is a wickedly funny, yet strikingly poignant work. WHAT THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT PRETTY FACES! an involving plotline, and an infectious score. It appears to be poised to become a theatrical staple on the regional circuit,
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