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A New American Musical
Take Flight
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Book by John Weidman, Music by David Shire, Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Directed by Sam Buntrock
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VIEW Video Trailer on the TAKE FLIGHT WEBSITE
Lift your spirits with this stirring new musical that takes flying, creativity, and American invention to new heights. Take Flight melds fact and fiction to tell the interweaving stories of three pioneers of aeronautics: the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. As their dreams become reality, these aviators discover the real costs of their sky-high ambitions. With style and panache, this lush musical delves to the core of the American experience.
This incomparable creative team includes Academy Award-winning composer David Shire (Broadway: Starting Here, Starting Now, Baby, also film: All the President’s Men, Saturday Night Fever, Norma Rae), Tony Award Award-winning lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. (Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Miss Saigon, also film: Miss Potter), and Tony Award-winning librettist John Weidman (Assassins, Pacific Overtures, Anything Goes).
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Major support for Take Flight provided by:
Shen Family Foundation and Marty and Perry Granoff
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Opening Night Sponsored by
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"Soaring moments in 'Take Flight' at McCarter"
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By Toby Zinman
The Inquirer |
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"Take Flight: McCarter’s soaring new musical humanizes aviation pioneers"
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By Peter Filichia
The Star-Ledger 5/17/2010 |
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"Take Flight is the kind of intellectually challenging and thoroughly engrossing musical we don't see enough of these days. Here's hoping it continues to soar, perhaps on Broadway, sometime very soon"
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| Gwen Orel, Theater Mania 5/16/2010 |
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