The Flood
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 23, 2006
Closed Nov 19, 2006
Opened Oct 23, 2006
Closed Nov 19, 2006
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This season, Prospect Theatre Company returns to Meyerville, Illinois and one community's struggle against the rising tide of the Mississippi River that would wipe it off the map. Originally workshopped by the company in 2001, events of the past five years have only added to the resonance of this epic story, which documents the catastrophic floods in the Midwest during the summer of 1993. Mythic and moving, with a stirring score and deeply American characters, The Flood looks for meaning in cycles of devastation and rebirth, and finds that even in the wake of tragedy there are things that float.
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In the rather remarkable score that Peter Mills and Cara Reichel have crafted for their ambitious musical The Flood, sentiments of unusual poeticism and clarity come out of the mouths of some fairly prosaic characters. This neatly sums up the show's strength and weakness.
First workshopped in 2001 by the Prospect Theater Company, of which Mills and Reichel are co-founders, The Flood is a portrait of fictional Meyerville, Illinois, which is devastated by the same real-life flood that destroyed numerous Midwestern towns in the summer of 1993. The show's ultimate message, about the ability of both individual people and a community to rebound from such a disaster, is a heartwarming one. However[...]