Lizzie Borden
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 10, 2009
Closed Oct 17, 2009
Opened Sep 10, 2009
Closed Oct 17, 2009
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Running Time:
1hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
1hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Lizzie Borden took an axe. Gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one. In 1892 on a sweltering August day in a small New England town, "somebody" hacked a well-to-do elderly man and his second wife to death with an axe. Lizzie Borden, their young daughter, was named the main suspect, arrested, and tried. But without any witnesses to the hideous crime, she was acquitted - and the murder remains unsolved to this day. Though Lizzie was ultimately declared innocent according to the law, her infamy lives on.
The rock musical Lizzie Borden enters the gruesome Borden household to explore this legendary story through the eyes of Lizzie, her older sister Emma, Lizzie's close friend Alice, and the housemaid Bridget. Packed with kick-ass original songs, four fierce rocker divas backed by a live 4-piece band, and two very bloody murders, this tale of repression and patricide sheds some light on why Lizzie Borden may have taken up that axe - and why some wouldn't condemn her for it.
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The name and reputation of Lizzie Borden is immortalized in the children's rhyme, "Lizzie Borden took an axe/gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/gave her father forty-one." That rhyme is set to a haunting, music box-like melody at the beginning of the bold new rock musical Lizzie Borden, by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan Stevens Hewitt, now at The Living Theatre. The show attempts to provide a motivation for the 1892 double homicide -- of which the young Lizzie was acquitted -- and while not everything works, a strong score and powerhouse vocal performances inject the piece with a dynamic, infectious energy that glosses over some of the piece's flaws.
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