Post by abk on Jun 11, 2008 12:42:14 GMT -5
Hey Everyone! I have friends in this production and I designed the costumes for it, if you want to see a musical you won't see anywhere else, now is your chance! See the New Line Theatre page below for details!
www.geocities.com/newlinetheatre/hifipage.html
In the first production after its Broadway run, New Line Theatre's 17th season closes June 12-July 5, 2008 with the regional premiere of the hip new rock musical HIGH FIDELITY, based on the famous novel by Nick Hornby and the film starring John Cusack and Jack Black. Fresh from Broadway, New Line is the first company outside New York to produce this smart, funny show about America's new Lost Generation and the music they live their lives to. With lyrics by Amanda Green and music by up-and-coming rock songwriter Tom Kitt, this is a genuine rock and roll score, peppered with musical references to some of the great rock and pop artists of our time, the muscular American rock sound of Bruce Springsteen, the raw rage of Guns N' Roses, the Eastern experiments of George Harrison and The Beatles, the intellectual playfulness of The Talking Heads , the fierce defiance of Aretha Franklin, the smoky groove of Percy Sledge, the naked emotion of Ben Folds, the driving cynicism of Billy Joel.
This is a story not just told with music, but entirely about music, written by people who genuinely love rock and roll, and based on the novel that defined once and for all the relationship between rock and the lives of its fans. This is a show whose main character Rob sings in the voices of his Rock Gods. Their voices become his. Their music is the soundtrack of his life.
HIGH FIDELITY tells the sad-funny tale of Rob, a thirty-something, indie record store owner who knows everything there is to know about music but nothing about holding on to girlfriends. The story starts with the breakup of the most recent in a long string of failed relationships, and Rob has to learn (with a little help from Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen) to take life and love as seriously as he takes his music.
HIGH FIDELITY will run Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, June 12-July 5, at 8:00 p.m. each night (yes, there will be a performance on July 4th) at the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre at Washington University, 6445 Forsyth, between Skinker and Big Bend, in the Mallinckrodt Building (which also houses the Edison Theatre). June 12 is a preview.
There is a new parking garage very nearby -- just turn off of Forsyth onto Olympia Way to get into the garage. There is construction going on at Wash.U. so leave a little extra time to get to the theatre.
Tickets are on sale through all Metrotix outlets -- $15 for adults and $10 for students/seniors on Thursdays; and $18 for adults and $15 for students/seniors on Fridays and Saturdays. To charge tickets by phone, call Metrotix at 314-534-1111 or visit any Metrotix outlet or the Metrotix website. All programs subject to change. This show contains adult language and content.