Rock 'n' Roll
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Nov 4, 2007
Closed Mar 9, 2008
2hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Following a record-breaking run in London's West End, Rock 'n' Roll, a new play by Tom Stoppard, opens on Broadway! The premiere marks the 40th anniversary since Stoppard was introduced to Broadway audiences with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Directed by Trevor Nunn, members of the original London company, including Brian Cox, Sinead Cusack and Rufus Sewell (winner of the Olivier, London Evening Standard and London Critics' Circle Awards for his performance), along with Nicole Ansari and Alice Eve, will appear in the Broadway production.
Rock 'n' Roll spans the years from 1968 -1990 from the double perspective of Prague, Czechoslovakia, where a rock 'n' roll band comes to symbolize resistance to the Communist regime -and of Cambridge, England, where the verities of love and death are shaping the lives of three generations in the family of a Marxist philosopher.
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You can be sure Tom Stoppard didn't call his meaty and marvelous new play
Rock 'n' Roll on a whim. As you watch it -- and listen to the music and musical dialogue stuffed chockablock into its brimming two acts
-- you can almost hear him coming to the realization that the music he obviously loves has had not only a lasting effect on international culture but on global politics as well. The result is a complex if overwritten narrative that intertwines the fortunes of Cambridge-educated Czech journalist Jan (Rufus Sewell) and the family of dyed-in-the-wool English communist Max (Brian Cox) - with his love of Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, and The Beach Boys.
Stoppard follows his charact[...]