Based on Moyoco Anno’s award-winning manga of the same name, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is a daring new musical about Colette (Sophia Anne Caruso), a witty young dreamer in 20th-century Paris, who finds her power through writing. While working at an elusive maison close called Night Egg, she begins chronicling the fantasies, confessions, and private sorrows of her eccentric clients, slowly transforming herself from object to observer—turning perversions into art. But underneath her sharp intelligence and growing independence, Colette has her own perversion she cannot outrun: a lingering, destructive attachment to Léon, her childhood love, whose toxic hold on her continues to blur the line between devotion and self-destruction.
This new musical features music & lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winner Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) and book by Leah Nanako Winkler.