About This Show
Paper Mill Playhouse presents the world premiere of Harold & Maude: The Musical, starring Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons, Eric Millegan, Donna English, Donna Lynne Champlin and Danny Burstein. Directed and choreographed by Paper Mill’s Associate Artistic Director, Mark S. Hoebee,
the show features a book and lyrics by veteran librettist/lyricist Tom Jones (The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade, and I Do, I Do), and music by talented newcomer Joseph Thalken (Was).
Like the 1971 cult film favorite on which it is based, this first collaboration of veteran writer Tom Jones and emerging composer Joseph Thalken tells a funny and life-affirming story about the unlikely romance between an eccentric young man morbidly obsessed with suicides and an equally eccentric old woman who is as much in love with life as he is with death.
