![]() And these are the women Guido has loved, and from whom he has derived the entire vitality of a creative life, now as stalled as his marriage. Women speaking beyond words (Overture delle Donne). Luisa's efforts to talk to him seem to be drowned out by voices in his head: voices of women in his life, speaking through the walls of his memory, insistent, flirtatious, irresistible, potent. Guido Contini, famous Italian film director, has turned forty and faces double crises: he has to shoot a film for which he can't write the script, and his wife of twenty years, the film star Luisa del Forno, may be about to leave him if he can't pay more attention to the marriage. The musical won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and has enjoyed a number of revivals. The original Broadway production opened in 1982 and ran for 729 performances, starring Raul Julia. The show tells the story of film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice.Ĭonceived and written and composed by Yeston as a class project in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in 1973, it was later adapted with a book by Mario Fratti, and then with another a book by Arthur Kopit. ![]() Nine is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit. 2003 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical
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