Tell Me a Beautiful Lie is a new historical romantic musical by Chris Guin.

Story

Tell Me a Beautiful Lie is an original story set in Sevastopol, a city in the Crimea, in 1920 - a few years after the Russian Revolution. Katya is a young woman who finds herself lonely and oppressed by a city under martial law - the Crimea is now the last holdout of the White Guards against the Communist Red Army. Her lover, a student with revolutionary sympathies, left years ago to fight in the Russian Civil War and has not been heard from in years. She holds out hope for a better tomorrow and the return of her lover, as she is confronted by her surrogate parents to settle down and courted by a childhood friend who now, confusingly for Katya, has joined the White Guards. For more details, you can download or read the full script.

Music Samples

The full score is also available.

Production History

Tell Me a Beautiful Lie has never received a full production. A public staged reading was held in Cambridge, Mass. in March 2010.

Video Sample

A sample of video taken of the March 2010 reading:

The entire reading recording (along with cast information) is available here.