Harold & Maude: The Musical
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 9, 2005
Closed Feb 6, 2005
Opened Jan 9, 2005
Closed Feb 6, 2005
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Paper Mill Playhouse presents the world premiere of Harold & Maude: The Musical, starring Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons, Eric Millegan, Donna English, Donna Lynne Champlin and Danny Burstein. Directed and choreographed by Paper Mill's Associate Artistic Director, Mark S. Hoebee,
the show features a book and lyrics by veteran librettist/lyricist Tom Jones (The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade, and I Do, I Do), and music by talented newcomer Joseph Thalken (Was).
Like the 1971 cult film favorite on which it is based, this first collaboration of veteran writer Tom Jones and emerging composer Joseph Thalken tells a funny and life-affirming story about the unlikely romance between an eccentric young man morbidly obsessed with suicides and an equally eccentric old woman who is as much in love with life as he is with death.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Paper Mill Playhouse
Brookside Dr
Millburn, NJ 07041
Founded in 1934, Paper Mill Playhouse raised the curtain on its first performance in 1938, opening with a production of Spanish playwright Martinez Sierra's The Kingdom of God. Due to a fire in 1980, Paper Mill was forced to close. Like a phoenix, [...] Read More
Brookside Dr
Millburn, NJ 07041
Founded in 1934, Paper Mill Playhouse raised the curtain on its first performance in 1938, opening with a production of Spanish playwright Martinez Sierra's The Kingdom of God. Due to a fire in 1980, Paper Mill was forced to close. Like a phoenix, [...] Read More
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The first sign of trouble with the musical adaptation of Harold & Maude comes immediately after the amusing opening scene wherein the fresh-faced eponymous lad puts his head through a thick noose that drops from the flies and kicks away the chair on which he's standing. The problem isn't so much what happens next as what doesn't happen: Harold (Eric Millegan) is swinging but not singing. In a song-and-dance treatment of the 1971 cult movie about a May-December love affair, you'd think that the youth's simulated hanging would be the ideal spot to float a ditty that introduces an adolescent in love with the idea of suicide but unable to follow through.
But lyricist-librettist Tom Jones and c[...]