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Forever
Plaid
Forever Plaid is an off-Broadway
musical comedy written by Stuart Ross in New
York in 1990 and now performed internationally. The critically
acclaimed show is an affectionate revue of the close-harmony "guy
groups" (e.g. The Four Aces, The Four Freshmen) that reached
the height of their popularity during the 1950s. Personifying
the clean-cut genre are the Plaids. This quartet of high-school
chums' earnest dreams of recording an album ended in death (literally
and indeed, symbolically) in a collision with a bus filled with
Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles' American
debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The play begins with the Plaids
returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory.
The songs they sing during the course of the musical
include: "Three Coins in the Fountain"; "Undecided";
"Gotta Be This or That"; "Moments to Remember";
"Crazy 'Bout Ya, Baby"; "No, Not Much"; "Sixteen
Tons"; "Chain Gang"; "Perfidia"; "Cry";
"Heart and Soul"; "Lady of Spain"; "Scotland
the Brave"; "Shangri-La"; "Rags to Riches";
and "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing".
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