Lost in the Stars
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 3, 2011
Closed Feb 6, 2011
Opened Feb 3, 2011
Closed Feb 6, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Lost in the Stars, based on Alan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country, with music by Kurt Weill and book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. This story of life in South Africa under apartheid stirred generations to action and was the basis for a beautiful, brooding, dramatic musical that produced not only the immortal title song, but an entire score that pulses with the life of a people. It opened at the Music Box Theater on October 30, 1949, and played 273 performances.
Lost in the Stars will be directed by Gary Griffin
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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RE:AN UNEVEN "STARS"
I saw the original production at a very young age and have fond if distant memories of it. Have seen other productions as well and have always loved it. The Encores production is nothing special but it has some fine moments in it. It was good to hear one of the theatres most beautiful scores played with the original orchestrations. A mixed blessing but but good to see again.
Reviewed by MRBDWAY
on Sunday, Feb 6th, 2011
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Lost in the Stars, now being presented at City Center Encores!, is at best a workman-like musical adaptation of Alan Paton's novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. So it's perhaps no surprise that Gary Griffin's straightforward production rarely rises above the level of workman-like as well.
The show, which originally opened on Broadway in 1949 and played a respectable 281 performances, does boast a varied Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson score -- including a title tune that rivals Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's "Ol' Man River" as the best song ever written for Broadway about man's difficult fate in an unresponsive cosmos.
The still-timely story unfolds in South Africa during the late 1940s, w[...]