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As fizzy and pleasantly retro as a Cuba
Libra cocktail and as vibrant, playful and tropically coloured as a
Bahama Mama topped with a magenta paper parasol, it's a diversion that
no one will ever confuse with Miss Saigon, Chorus Line or Grand Hotel.
Like 42nd Street, Crazy for You or the big splashy Technicolor MGM
musicals it pays homage to, Copacabana doesn't challenge you to tackle
big social issues or work through complex ideas. It unabashedly offers
familiar characters and predictable situations while revelling in
melody, harmony and every show biz myth you ever wanted to believe in.
It's a Hollywood dream world where the unlikeliest candidates become
heroes through feats of bravery and physical daring.
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Manilow and his co-creators, Bruce
Sussman and Jack Feldman, who wrote the show's lyrics as well as
collaborated with Manilow on the book, build a fantasy world of
nightclub ambition and intrigue framed by opening and closing real-world
scenes of the songwriter whose imagination envelops us.
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You know the story. Manilow's catchy
music and lyrics have been sticking in everyone's head since it debuted
as a single in 1978.
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While writing his next big hit, Stephen,
an aspiring songwriter, is carried back to an era when "music and
passion were always the fashion" at the world famous Copacabana
Night Club in New York City. In his dream, Lola la Mar, a hopeful
showgirl, is launched on the path to stardom as a Copa Girl with the
help of Tony Forte, a bartender with dreams of his own. Captivated by
Lola's performance, the villainous Rico whisks her away to the Tropicana
Nightclub in Havana. From this exotic, distant new world, a tale of old
fashioned love, jealousy and murder in the entangled lives of Lola, Tony
and Rico unfolds.
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