The musical 'NINE' is a bravura journey into the inner workings of an artist in creative crisis, awarded with five Tony statuettes, including Best Musical. The show is a musical adaptation of Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning 'Eight and a Half'.

Guido is a famous film director, a celebrity who should start shooting a film any day now, but has no idea for a script.
On top of this, his marriage is going through a serious crisis. He tries to fill the emotional void with numerous affairs, but is unable to establish a lasting relationship. Pursued by an impatient female producer, he flees to a spa, but even there he cannot find his balance. The sweet life that has hitherto driven his work no longer works, no longer inspires him. He begins to desperately seek salvation in the arms of the women around him. His creative impotence and the pressure of time throw him into a vortex of events over which he begins to lose control; the boundaries between fiction and reality lose their sharpness, the present mixes with the past. He has lost something, but he doesn't know himself what... Could the cure be authentic love? "Or is it better to dive even deeper into this fantastic ballet trying to feel its rhythm*?"

Diploma performance by fourth-year undergraduate students of the Department of Vocal and Acting, Musical Section, UMFC
Libretto Arthur Kopit
Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston
Translated by Jacek Mikołajczyk