Scapino
- Dates
- Sep 27, 1974 – Mar 2, 1975
- Performances
- 176
About
Scapino, also written Scapino!, is a 1974 play adapted by Jim Dale and Frank Dunlop from Les Fourberies de Scapin by Molière opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. A production by the Young Vic, it starred Jim Dale, Denise Coffey and Ian Trigger and was directed by Frank Dunlop. The production later moved to the Ambassador Theatre in New York. In this adaptation Molière's French play is transposed to modern Naples in a British pantomime-style. Here the deceitful valet Scapino contrives to bring his master's children of two sons and two daughters and their various loves together through all kinds of trickery - despite his master's own plans for them. The music was by Jim Dale. In 1974 Frank Dunlop was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director; Dale won the O...