American Dreams: Lost and Found
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 13, 2003
Closed May 24, 2003
Opened May 13, 2003
Closed May 24, 2003
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Running Time:
2hr. 10min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 10min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Acting Company presents an original adaptation of Studs Terkel's American Dreams: Lost and Found.
The people depicted in this gripping production were interviewed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Terkel over several years as he traveled the country capturing the voices of Americans from all walks of life. Presented with music, those voices include an embittered winner of the Miss U.S.A. pageant; a businessman enamored of success; farm kids dreaming of the city and the city boys determined to get out; the Boston Brahmin, the KKK and a 19 year old Puerto Rican bellhop.
Exceptions to the performance schedule:
Monday, 5/12 @7PM
Tuesday, 5/13 @6:30 (opening night)
Tuesday, 5/20 @8:30PM
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Performances using transcribed interviews with real people as scripts can be phenomenally powerful. Anna Deveare Smith took this form to its apex in her one-woman masterwork about the fallout from the Rodney King trial, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. The legendary oral historian Studs Terkel has seen his work adapted for the stage before -- most popularly in the 1978 musical of Working, based on his book about the American rat race. American Dreams: Lost & Found, Terkel's 1981 volume about the aspirations and realities of everyday (and not-so-everyday) folks, reflects the peculiar blend of idealism and fear, hope and cynicism that prevailed in 1970s America. But The Acting Company's staging o[...]