Camilla Baker Lives In Concert

By Emilio Boechat and José Cláudio Castanheira

"When I turned nine, I found out that who I had always thought to be my mother, was in fact, my uncle John. My mother died three years before I was born."

CAMILLA BAKER LIVES IN CONCERT is a nonsense musical comedy about a rising star. The play shows Camilla since she was just a girl who dreamed about her future career on Broadway and then, her struggles to fulfill her goals at any cost. Throughout many comedy sketches, we see Camilla’s “shinny” performance on stage, besides her troubled love life. Until a mysterious crime changes her life and steals her career from her.
Book by Emilio Boechat. Lyrics and Music by José Claudio Castanheira e Emilio Boechat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emilio Boechat
• Release date: Jun 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310916755

Emilio Boechat

EMILIO BOECHAT é dramaturgo indicado ao Troféu Mambembe de Melhor Autor em 1999 pela peça Eu Era Tudo Pra Ela & Ela Me Deixou - peça da qual originou o personagem vencedor do Prêmio Multishow do Bom Humor, em 1998, interpretado pelo ator Marcelo Médici. É autor de comédias como Camila Baker, Lives In Concert (indicada aos prêmios APETESP e SHELL); Luluzinhas e Tudo de Mim. Camila Baker ganhou várias remontagens pelo Brasil e em Portugal. Em 2005, teve elenco estrelado, com Daniel Boaventura, Leonardo Brício, Marcos Mion, Otávio Muller e Danton Mello. Eu Era Tudo Pra Ela & Ela Me Deixou foi remontada em 2011 por Marcelo Médici. Em televisão, Emilio Boechat já passou pela Rede Globo (Angel Mix e Zorra Total, 1999), Bandeirantes/ RGB (Floribella, 2005 e Floribella 2, 2006), GNT (Mulheres Possíveis 2007/ 2008/ 2009), Multishow (Na Fama Na Lama, 2011). Desenvolveu para a FremantleMedia Marcas Da Vida (2010/2011), docudrama exibido na Rede Record (2011). Desde 2006 é contratado dessa emissora, onde já escreveu e colaborou para as novelas Luz do Sol, Amor e Intrigas, Os Mutantes, Promessas de Amor, Bela A Feia, Rebelde 1a e 2a temporadas (que assumiu como autor principal nos quatro últimos meses no ar), Pecado Mortal, de Carlos Lombardi, o especial de fim de ano Balada, Baladão (2010), e a minissérie bíblica Rei Davi (2011/ 2012). Faz parte da equipe de Os Dez Mandamentos e participa da criação da 2a Temporada. Em cinema, escreveu com Marilia Toledo o longa-metragem Lascados, O Filme, estrelado por Paloma Bernardi e Chay Suede, e o roteiro da comédia romântica O Galã, (título provisório) para a Ramalho Filmes. Foi um dos roteiristas do filme Os Dez Mandamentos, lançado em janeiro de 2016, e sua série de humor A Secretária Do Presidente, produzida pela Mixer, tem estreia também em 2016, no Canal Multishow.EMILIO BOECHAT is a best playwright nominee for Troféu Mambembe in 1999 with his play Eu Era Tudo Pra Ela & Ela Me Deixou from which originated the 1998’s Prêmio Multishow do Bom Humor character winner performed by the actor Marcelo Médici. He is the author of comedies as Camila Baker, Lives In Concert (a best play nominee for the awards APETESP and SHELL), Luluzinhas, and Tudo de Mim. Camila Baker was lengthily performed throughout Brazil and Portugal, in 2005, the play was back on stage starring well-known actors: Daniel Boaventura, Leonardo Brício, Marcos Mion, Otávio Muller, and Danton Mello. Eu Era Tudo Pra Ela & Ela Me Deixou got a new production in 2011 performed by Marcelo Médici. As a TV writer, Emilio has scripted for many TV Stations and Channels, including Rede Globo (Angel Mix and Zorra Total, 1999), Bandeirantes/ RGB (Floribella, 2005 and Floribella 2, 2006), GNT (Mulheres Possíveis 2007/ 2008/ 2009), Multishow (Na Fama Na Lama, 2011). For FremantleMedia created the docudrama Marcas Da Vida (2010/2011) aired by Rede Record (2011), where since 2006 has written and collaborated for soap operas such as Luz do Sol, Amor e Intrigas, Os Mutantes, Promessas de Amor, Bela A Feia, Rebelde seasons 1 and 2 (becoming the main author of its four last months on the air); Pecado Mortal, directed by Carlos Lombardi; the year-end special Balada, Baladão (2010), and a biblical miniseries Rei Davi (2011/ 2012). At present, Emilio is a member of Os Dez Mandamentos team writing its second season. For the big screen, he wrote with Marilia Toledo, Lascados, O Filme, performed by Paloma Bernardi and Chay Suede and the romantic comedy for Ramalho Filmes “O Galã” (working title). Besides being one of the screenwriters of Os Dez Mandamentos, released in January 2016, his comedy series A Secretária Do Presidente, produced by Mixer, is also due to be released by the cable channel Multishow this year.

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CAMILLA BAKER LIVES, IN CONCERT

Book by Emilio Boechat

Music and Lyrics By

José Claudio Castanheira & Emilio Boechat

Proofreading

Aldo Camolez

Book Cover

Leandro Machado

Copyright @ 2015 Emilio Boechat

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Scene One - Prologue

Scene Two - My Best Friend

Musical Number - I’ll Be A Star

Scene Three - Greek Tragedy, Act One

Scene Four - Greek Tragedy, Oct Two

Scene Five – Dorothy’s Testimony

Scene Six - My Loyal Maid

Scene Seven - At the Train Station

Scene Eight - Virginia’s Testimonial

Scene Nine - At The Train Station

Musical Number - Camilla’s Song

Scene Ten - Intellectual Play

Scene Eleven - Debate

Scene Twelve - That Crime

Musical Number - My Preferred Things

Scene Thirteen - Harry’s Testimonial

Scene Fourteen - A Children’s Play

Musical Number - Children’s Song

Scene Fifteen - The End

Musical Number - I Love Flowers And Cats

Sheet

About Camilla Baker Lives, in Concert

Characters

About Emilio Boechat

About José Claudio Castanheira

SCENE ONE

The stage is divided in three different sets. On the right: a bench, a chair and a clothes rack with Camilla’s costumes on it. It’s Camilla’s dressing room. On the left another bench, three chairs and another clothes rack. It’s the cast’s dressing room. In the middle of the stage there is a little stage, where Camilla’s plays are performed. The play begins in complete darkness. Suddenly, CAMILLA appears under the spot light. She sings the last verses of her song: I love flowers and cats.

CAMILLA

... I can dance and sing alone.

(Applauses. CAMILLA thanks her audience and walks toward her dressing room. She picks up a cigarette and starts looking for her lighter on the dressing room’s desk. Suddenly, someone holding a lighter stretches his arm out from the darkness of the stage and lights her cigarette.)

CAMILLA

Thank you!

(Now, noticing the presence of a stranger in her dressing room)

Who are you, Sir?

PARKER

Parker.

CAMILLA

Baker, Camilla Baker!

PARKER

Detective Parker, seventeenth district.

(PARKER leaves the scene.)

(END OF SCENE)

SCENE TWO

There is a transition to the next scene, where CAMILLA takes a ride in her best friend’s car, VIRGINIA.

The actress playing Camilla picks up a chair and walks towards the proscenium. The actress playing Virginia does the same. Both sit on their chairs acting like they are inside Virginia’s car which is conducted by her. Scene Two begins.

CAMILLA

Virginia, are you my best friend?

VIRGINIA

Well... Yeah... I think so.

CAMILLA

How come you think so? Either you are, or you aren’t!

VIRGINIA

Well... I always thought Melody was your best friend.

CAMILLA

Melody is a deceiver. She said she was my best friend, but… She took Joseph away from me. He loved me, he wanted to marry me and she seduced him, that slut!

VIRGINIA

But you always said you hated Joseph, that you’d never ever marry him!

CAMILLA

It doesn’t matter! That’s no excuse for what she’s done to me. I hated him. True! He and that awful breath of his… But she took him away from me. She shouldn’t have done