Doris to Darlene, A Cautionary Valentine
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 11, 2007
Closed Dec 23, 2007
Opened Dec 11, 2007
Closed Dec 23, 2007
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Playwrights Horizons presents the world premiere of Doris to Darlene, A Cautionary Valentine, a new play by Jordan Harrison, directed by Les Waters.
In the candy-colored 1960s, a biracial schoolgirl named Doris is molded into pop star Darlene by a whiz-kid record producer who culls a top-ten hit out of Richard Wagner's Liebestod. Rewind to the candy-colored 1860s, where Wagner is writing the melody that will become Darlene's hit song. Fast-forward to the not-so-candy-colored present, where a teenager obsesses over Darlene's music -- and his music teacher. Three dissonant decades merge into an unlikely harmony in this time-jumping pop fairy tale about the dreams and disasters behind one transcendent song.
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Just about any play that baldly announces what its about at the top of the show is going to run into trouble. Doris to Darlene, A Cautionary Valentine, Jordan Harrison's entertaining but uneven new work getting its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, is no exception.
The opening lines of the script read: "This story is about where music comes from. This story is about how you put it on paper, and how you take it back off again. This story is about people with music in their heads, and the people who put it there." The words are spoken by a trio of characters whose tales are interwoven in this time-hopping piece: King Ludwig II (Laura Heisler), in the 1860s, who becomes composer Richard[...]