About
“The Beat Goes On…”
“The Beat Goes On … a 60’s retrospective” is a new and unique ninety minute musical revue. Casting is flexible and may be performed with a minimum of 8 singer, actor, dancers or as many as 16. Though not a requirement for casting, if the Actor can play proficiently or learn to play proficiently bongos, tambourine or claves it would be extremely helpful. It would be extremely beneficial if any of the Actors played proficiently either trumpet, harmonica, guitar or tenor sax. The score is arranged for keyboard, tenor sax, trumpet, guitar, bass and drums but may be downsized … especially if the Actor is used as a musician as well.
With great songs such as Ashford and Simpson’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind”, Tony Hatch’s “Downtown”, “Smokey” Robinson and Ronald White’s “My Girl” along with Pete Seeger’s “Turn! Turn! Turn!” this musical revue exposes several of the disturbing national paradigms prevalent during the 60’s. Now, nearly 60 years later, many of these disturbing patterns remain, thus lending substantial credence to the axiom, “the more things change the more they remain the same.”
The licensing for all musical compositions used in “The Beat Goes On …” is current and all music licenses have been secured by the writer from each publisher/licensor granting permission to perform the musical composition in a live stage performance in front of a living audience. Licensing agreements for all musical compositions is the sole responsibility of the writer.
“The Beat Goes On …” was conceived and written by Jim Baker with musical arrangements by Amy R. Holloway along with additional adapted source materials from an editorial by Eugene Patterson and select passages from the speeches of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Jim Baker
Writer
Jim Baker is a member of both the Actor’s Equity Association of America and the Actor’s Equity Association of Canada as well as The Dramatists’ Guild of America. He is the co-author of the nationally and internationally successful musical “Dream, Dream,Dream … a 50’s musical fable” which features music made popular by the Everly Brothers. Jim is currently working on a new script. “Precious Blood,” based loosely on the events which occurred in the infamous district of Whitechapel, a place of poverty, squalor and disease from August through November, 1888.
Amy R. Holloway
Music Arranger
Amy Holloway graduated from the University of Tennessee with a major in music and a minor in theatre. She has experience in the theatre as an actress, a musical director and as a pianist/assistant musical director. Amy sings with the Sentimental Journey Orchestra and performs throughout Atlanta as a solo pianist and singer.
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