The Human Comedy
From: Monday, 13th September 2010
To: Saturday, 18 September 2010
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Synopsis
A tale of wartime heroism set in a small town in southern California during World War Two. Young Homer delivers telegrams of love, joy and the sorrows of war. His mother prays for the safe return of his brother Marcus from the front line. His sister dreams that she too could fight for her country. A timeless coming of age story that celebrates the healing spirit of community and the unifying power of song, with an exuberant musical score of swing, gospel, pop, folk and show tunes, delivered with explosive energy.
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Michael Coveney - 14 September 2010
A small war-time community in California spreads beautiful music, and occasional bad news, through its telegraph office, and the Young Vic stage is boosted by an eighty-strong local community choir.
This sentimental, irresistible sung-through musical is a joyous anthology of gospel, blues, jitterbug, swing and ballad, and another triumph for the theatre’s ongoing collaboration with John Fulljames’s Opera Group, this time co-producing with the Watford Palace.
Galt MacDermot may be a one-hit wonder for Hair, but this skilful, simple 1984 score – each number in turn leaving you wanting more – is a thorough delight, suggesting an American musical version of The Railway Children crossed with Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, although William Dumaresq’s libretto is actually based on a short novel of William Saroyan.
In the movie, Mickey Rooney played Homer Macauley, the high school student turned telegraph boy around whom the everyday events revolve, and [...
Cast
Tomm Coles
Brenda Edwards
Jordi Fray
Sarah Harlington
Helen Hobson
Kate Marlais
Terel Nugents
Tom Robertson
Jo Servi
Jos Slovick
Tony Stansfield
Theo Stevenson
Chris Storr
Creative
William MacDumaresq (from and original story by William Saroyan) (Book)
Galt MacDermot (Music)
Young Vic (Producer)
The Opera Group (Producer)
WPT (Producer)
John Fulljames (Director)
Jon Bausor (Design)
Bruno Poet (Lighting)
Fergus O'Hare (Sound)
Phil Bateman (Musical Director)
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