Deaf West Theatre and Director Bill Rauch to Reimagine Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind

New York Stage & Film’s 2026 summer season in Poughkeepsie, New York, will include a reimagined Whistle Down the Wind, presented July 31-August 2 at the Bardavon.

Featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Jim Steinman, and a book by Patricia Knop, Gale Edwards, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Whistle Down the Wind is set in America’s Deep South in the late ’50s. Swallow, struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother, discovers a mysterious stranger whom she believes is Jesus. The children of the town fight to protect him from an adult world determined to find an escaped convict hiding in their midst.

This new version from Tony Award-winning Deaf West Theatre and Bill Rauch, co-director of Cats: The Jellicle Ball, further explores the world as seen through the eyes of children, both deaf and hearing.

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