Johnny Baseball
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 2, 2010
Closed Jul 11, 2010
Opened Jun 2, 2010
Closed Jul 11, 2010
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American Repertory Theater presents the world premiere of Johnny Baseball, The New Red Sox Musical, featuring a book by Richard Dresser, music by Robert Reale, and lyrics by Willie Reale. Diane Paulus will direct.
After the Red Sox stunning collapse in the 2003 playoffs, a baseball-obsessed team of musical theater writers (one long suffering Sox fan and two smug yet oddly sympathetic Yankees fans) went in search of the reason for the Curse on the Red Sox. Their journey yielded surprising conclusions and a clever new musical.
Johnny Baseball is an exhilarating blend of fact, fiction, and the mystical power of the game. It traces the origin of the Curse to a collision of three orphaned souls: Johnny O'Brien, a hard-luck right-hander on the 1919 Sox; his idol, the man-child Babe Ruth; and Daisy Wyatt, a dazzling African American blues singer and the love of Johnny's life. These three lives contain both the reason for the Curse and the secret to its end off the bat of Big Papi in 2004. Johnny Baseball packs a thoughtful commentary on American social history into a fun and spirited musical that will bring cheers and tears to baseball fans everywhere.
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Johnny Baseball
I typically hate musicals but my girlfriend drug me to this one fighting and screaming, but I am online now trying to go see it again! I have not stopped talking about it to anyone that will listen. The entire show was just too much!!! Everyone was just beyond belief!
Reviewed by onefuglyman
on Thursday, Jun 17th, 2010
Great show
You do NOT have to care a hoot about Red Sox or baseball to love this musical - inspring story, great music and fabulous voices. I think even Yankee fans will love this play.
Reviewed by ejtell
on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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Due to its very Boston-centric subject matter, A.R.T.'s world premiere musical Johnny Baseball, may never get to play on Broadway. But there's no doubt this show, directed by Diane Paulus, is a good, solid work in the all-American tradition that's worth seeing.
Together with composer Robert Reale and lyricist Willie Reale, playwright Richard Dresser has fashioned a semi-fictional explanation for the so-called "curse of the Bambino" -- the 86-year losing streak that plagued the Boston Red Sox from 1918 to 2004, supposedly set in motion when owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth's contract to the New York Yankees in 1920.
In this dramatization -- which unreels in flashbacks framed by a bleacher[...]