Vingtaines (musical)

Vigntaines
1992 Dislismont poster
Music	Amaury Vérac
Lyrics	Amaury Vérac
Book	Navie Écause
Premiere	15 April 1975: Théâtre Rochande, Mont-Sanguine
Productions	1975 Mont-Sanguine 1988 Royal Dislismont 1999 West End 2001 Off-Broadway 1995 Haufenburg 2007 First West End revival 2009 United Kingdom tour 2010 Carrelian tour 2010 Broadway 2012 Copenhagen 2016 Second West End revival 2017 Paris 2019 North American tour 2021 Carrelian tour 2024 Labuan

Vingtaines (English: Twentysomethings) is a Carrelian musical comedy with music and lyrics by Amaury Vérac, and book by Navie Écause. The original 1975 production only lasted 3 performances before it was banned by the Subversive Media Act, though it was revived soon after the act was repealed and has run continuously on Royal Dislismont since 1988, making it the third longest-running show on Royal Dislismont. Vingtaines is a notable example of a concept musical, following the single Roussel through a number of vignettes as he interacts with his friends during the Heat-Wave of 1966.

Background

Vingtaines was inspired by a series of poems written in 1967 by Claus Schirlitz, a late associate of Vérac. Unusually for the period before the lapse of the Second State Protection Act, these poems, which dealt with explicit themes, went uncensored by the Wegscheider regime.