A musical fantasy. Book by Arthur Kopit. Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston.
Based on the life, world and mind of the eccentrically imaginative film director Federico Fellini. Nominated for eleven TONY AWARDS, it won five including BEST MUSICAL.
Set in a spa near Venice, film director Guido Contini has a faithful wife and plenty of mistresses. He is under contract to start a new movie, but his personal life is getting in the way. The story is simple, a director has to start a film, can't remember what it's about, but goes ahead anyway. What makes Nine such a special piece of theatre is its mixture of straight-forward narrative with memories and dreams, as if they were all one.