Saved
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Opened Jun 3, 2008
Closed Jun 22, 2008
Opened Jun 3, 2008
Closed Jun 22, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Playwrights Horizons presents the world premiere of Saved, a new musical featuring
music and lyrics by Obie Award winner Michael Friedman, with book and lyrics by John Dempsey and Rinne Groff, based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture written by Brian Dannelly and
Michael Urban. Gary Griffin directs.
"Are you down with G-O-D?" Good girl Mary and her domineering best friend Hilary Faye are starting their senior year at the top of the social food chain at American Eagle Christian High School -- that is, until Mary's boyfriend tells her he thinks he's gay. When Jesus appears in a vision, and Mary heeds his message "to do everything she can to help him," her good deeds are met with dire consequences, Mary is forced to question everything she's ever believed. Through it all, she finds faith in unexpected places and learns what it truly means to be saved.
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Perhaps keenly aware of the old adage that "satire is what closes on Saturday night," Michael Friedman, Rinne Groff, and John Dempsey, the creators of the new musical Saved, now at Playwrights Horizons, have transformed the deeply sardonic 2004 film about life in a Christian high school into a surprisingly earnest tuner about adolescent (and occasionally adult) angst and the struggle to maintain faith. The often-engaging, rarely-offensive result is likely to disappoint fans of the movie -- or anyone expecting a broad comedy -- yet will probably appeal to a wider spectrum of theatergoers.
Indeed, despite its current Off-Broadway venue and limited run, everything about Saved screams potentia[...]