In 1925, a spelunker named Floyd Collins obtained trapped in a Kentucky cave and the unsuccessful efforts to rescue him turned a media sensation, with print and radio reporters breathlessly monitoring the endeavor.
Now a musical concerning the tragedy is heading to Broadway, three a long time after it was first carried out and a century after Collins’s loss of life.
Lincoln Heart Theater, one of many 4 nonprofits with Broadway homes, stated on Monday that it will stage a revival of “Floyd Collins” at its Vivian Beaumont Theater subsequent spring, with previews starting March 27 and a gap on April 21.
The musical encompasses a bluegrass rating by Adam Guettel and a e book, in addition to extra lyrics, by Tina Landau, who will direct the manufacturing. No forged has been introduced.
The present debuted in Philadelphia in 1994, after which had a typically well-received Off Broadway manufacturing in 1996 at Playwrights Horizons; it received an Obie Award for music, has periodically been staged at theaters in the US and Britain, and has followers due to an Off Broadway forged album.
Guettel, a Tony winner for “The Mild within the Piazza,” is experiencing a little bit of a renaissance. He’s a Tony nominee once more this 12 months, for “Days of Wine and Roses.” And subsequent spring, along with “Floyd Collins,” his new musical “Thousands and thousands,” tailored from the novel and movie of the identical identify, can have an preliminary staging on the Alliance Theater in Atlanta.
“Floyd Collins” can be considered one of two Broadway reveals staged by Lincoln Heart Theater this season, which is the ultimate season of its longtime producing creative director, André Bishop. The nonprofit beforehand introduced that this fall it will stage a Broadway manufacturing of “McNeal,” a brand new play by Ayad Akhtar, starring Robert Downey Jr. as a novelist.
The theater additionally introduced on Monday that it will stage Off Broadway productions of “The Blood Quilt,” written by Katori Corridor and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, and Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” revised by Mark O’Rowe and directed by Jack O’Brien.
They be a part of an already introduced Off Off Broadway manufacturing of “Six Characters,” a brand new play by Phillip Howze, directed by Dustin Wills. As a fund-raiser in December, the theater is planning a one-night reunion live performance of its Tony-winning 2008 revival of “South Pacific.”
