Our First Musical!🎵🎵🎵

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Hello Friends!

Our first musical since reopening last May is just around the corner—and it’s all treats and no tricks!

Featuring a far-ranging score with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Bridges of Madison County), this adventurous musical takes its audience on a journey to unexpected places, choices, and consequences.

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1995, features a dazzling collection of powerful songs that examines life, love, and the choices we make. From the deck of a Spanish sailing ship to a Penthouse on Fifth Avenue, audiences meet a startling array of characters at the crossroads of discoveries and life-changing decisions. It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.

An exquisitely crafted score that runs the gamut of today's popular music, performed by a powerhouse cast, will make this an experience to remember. The New York Times stated of a recent revival, "Adornments are minimal, allowing the music and vocals to be the stars...the small stories Mr. Brown tells here stand on their own, song by song."

The cast consists of Melissa Paul-Perez, Tracy Funke, Nick D'Angelo, and Garth West. The production is directed by Jane Cerosky, with music direction by Kim Aliczi.

“It’s probably one of the more conceptual musicals I’ve ever been part of,” says Director Jane Cerosky. "More than a musical revue, the play weaves together the lives of four nameless individuals at the moment of critical life decisions. It’s about the consequences of choices. And we can’t treat them like they’re songs. We have to tell them like they’re stories. There’s a lot of spirituality in this. I think there’s a lot of hopefulness.”

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD runs Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Tickets are $32 for VIP seating in the first six rows and $24 for all remaining seats. There is a $2 per ticket discount for seniors, students, and military. Tickets can be purchased 24/7 by visiting cheneyhall.org or by visiting the box office or calling (860) 647-9824 Monday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm.

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD will be one musical experience you don’t want to miss!

See you soon,
Dwayne

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Lunchtime Lecture: Songs For A New World

  • Wednesday, October 27th at Noon

  • In-Person, Indoor Event at Cheney Hall

  • Socially Distanced Seating in Silk Room

  • Masks are Required

  • Free of Charge and No Reservations Needed

Join David Garnes as he discusses LTM’s upcoming production SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD with members of the cast and creative team.

Free and open to the public, Lunchtime Lectures offer an opportunity to learn about LTM’s productions, providing insights into the creative process, background information about the play, its production history and the playwright, and much more about theatre and the arts. These discussions are an informal lecture-style with an opportunity to ask questions after the chat.

ABOUT DAVID GARNES
For the past several seasons, LTM member and dramaturg David Garnes has led Little Theatre’s Lunchtime Lecture Series. David is the author of four books: Back to Manhattan: A Life in New York; Waitin’ for the Train to Come In: A Novel of World War II; From My Life: Travels and Adventures; and After the War Was Over: Poems of an American Childhood. His essays have appeared in many publications, including America in WWII, The Isherwood Century, Telling Tales Out Of School, Latin Lovers, Stories From The Other Side, Chicken Soup For the Volunteer’s Soul, Liberating Minds, When A Lifemate Dies, A Loving Testimony, Mourning Our Mothers, and various newspapers and academic reference books. Garnes’ forthcoming books are the novels Sal's War and Morningside Drive.

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