27 Rue de Fleurus
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 6, 2008
Closed Apr 13, 2008
Opened Mar 6, 2008
Closed Apr 13, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Urban Stages presents the new musical 27 Rue de Fleurus, about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. The show features book and lyrics by Ted Sod, music and lyrics by Lisa Koch, and will be directed by Frances Hill.
In the show, the celebrated couple confronts each other about love, marriage, jealousy, genius and a few other delicious topics while Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mabel Dodge, Sylvia Beach and even Jean Harlow drop by for a visit.
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An extraordinary love, life, and literary legacy are distilled into a curious vaudeville in
27 Rue de Fleurus, Ted Sod and Lisa Koch's new musical now at Urban Stages, which imagines Alice B. Toklas (Cheryl Stern) in the afterlife as she attempts to make some sense of her 40-year relationship with Gertrude Stein (Barbara Rosenblat). The fact that the piece is a fanciful spin on the historical record is made evident as soon as a glamorous Toklas takes the stage, explaining that she looks not as she was in life, but as she always felt she appeared.
Toklas' recounting includes tales of Stein's infamous salon gatherings where the pair entertained the likes of Pablo Picasso (Sarah Chalfy) and [...]