Two Cities

It Was The Best Of Times… Sydney Carton, Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Madame Defarge come to life in this light-filled musicalization of Dickens’ story, a passionate love triangle set against the reign of terror that was the French Revolution.

It Was The Worst Of Times… Two cities: London and Paris. One a City of Hope, the other a City of Fear. In one, a loving family safe at home. In the other, a mob of the homeless and disenfranchised who live on streets where no one is safe.

It Was Just Like Our Time… With book by Chad Hardin and a hauntingly beautiful original score by Chad Hardin and Dan Schillaci, Two Cities features 20 memorable new songs. The cast of 23 Broadway actors is led by director Lenore Shapiro and musical director Larry Pressgrove.

Broadway’s Matt Bogart portrays Two Cities’s unlikely hero, Sydney Carton, a bitter and cynical man who begins the miraculous process of transforming his life, re-discovering his native innocence and idealism through his love for the ethereal Lucie Manette, played by Christeena Michelle Riggs. So deep is his love for Lucie that even when she marries another man – Charles Darney, an expatriate French aristocrat, played by Richard Todd Adams, he’s able to grow beyond his disappointment and become her friend and protector. Linda Balgord plays Madame Defarge, who embodies both the heroism and the bloodlust of the French Revolution.

SCHEDULE:

Thursday, August 19 at 8pm
Friday, August 20 at 8pm
Saturday, August 21 at 2pm
Saturday, August 21 at 8pm
Sunday, August 22 at 2pm
Wednesday, August 25 at 7pm
Thursday, August 26 at 7pm
Friday, August 27 at 8pm
Saturday, August 28 at 8pm
Sunday, August 29 at 2pm