The Spitfire Grill
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Opened Oct 2, 2001
Closed Oct 14, 2001
Opened Oct 2, 2001
Closed Oct 14, 2001
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Playwrights Horizons begins its 2001-2002 season with The Spitfire Grill, the New York premiere of a new musical with book and music by James Valcq and book and lyrics by Fred Alley. When Percy Talbott, a mysterious young woman with an uncertain past, becomes a resident of tiny Gilead, Wisconsin, the town welcomes her with suspicion and distrust. Determined to start anew, Percy soon devises a scheme to breathe life into the dying, backwater county and bring solace to a grieving mother. But its going to take more than good will, she finds, to overcome the unchanging ways of Gilead, a town still haunted by tragedies of the past. Based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff.
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About a third of the way through The Spitfire Grill, the unlikely heroine, a young ex-con named Percy Talbott, and her unlikely suitor, parole officer and sheriff Joe Sutter, sing "This Wide Woods." An exquisite love song that goes through as many seductive changes as light skipping over water, the ballad is not the only highlight in the Playwrights Horizons production of this rural musical, which has been adapted from Lee David Zlotoff's 1996 movie. However, it's one of very few in a potential crowd pleaser that pretends to be hard-hitting and unflinching, but is, ultimately, one of the warm-and-fuzzies.
As the troubled but no-nonsense Percy awakens Gilead, a sleepy backwater Wisconsin h[...]