Tell Me a Beautiful Lie is a new historical/romantic musical being developed by Chris Guin. If you are in the Boston or Cambridge areas, you can come see the upcoming staged reading on March 20 at the Lily Pad! All are welcome and admission is free. You can contact the author at imaginer01@gmail.com
Staged Reading
DATE: Saturday, March 20, 2010
TIME: 3:30-6:00 PM
PLACE: Lily Pad at Inman Square, Cambridge, MA (1353 Cambridge St)
ADMISSION: Free
Song Samples
The following are some brief piano-only samples of the score to give a flavor of the show.
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.