Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 7, 2010
Closed Oct 17, 2010
Opened Sep 7, 2010
Closed Oct 17, 2010
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Robert McClure and Ashley Brown star in La Jolla Playhouse's world premiere musical Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, featuring music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis, with book by Curtis and Thomas Meehan. Michael Unger directs.
From the gritty streets and smoky music halls of London to movie screens across the globe, Limelight goes behind the camera to show how a comic genius found soaring success and later fell from grace. McClure portrays Chaplin, with Brown as his fourth wife, Oona.
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The life and art of Charlie Chaplin was filled to overflowing with genius, scandal, exciting characters, and world-shaking incidents, which makes it a seemingly impossible task to fit them all into two hours or so of stage time. Sadly, the latest team to attempt this feat, Tony Award-winning book writer Thomas Meehan and composer and co-author Christopher Curtis, haven't succeeded into overcoming the obstacles with Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, now getting its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse.
While the show covers a lot of ground, you know there's trouble ahead when Act One ends with Chaplin's divorce from just the first of his four wives. One quickly senses the author[...]