For the first time, the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway musical See Rock City and Other Destinations will be introduced to the UK for a two-week strictly limited run at the Union Theatre. Previews start on 15 August and press night is on 19 August.
See Rock City and Other Destinations is a contemporary musical about connections missed and made at tourist destinations across America. A wanderer believes his destiny is written on rooftops along the North Carolina Interstate, a young man yearns to connect with intelligent life in Roswell, New Mexico, a woman at The Alamo steps out of the shadow of her grandparents’ idealised romance to take a chance on love, three estranged sisters cruise to Glacier Bay to scatter their father’s ashes, two high school boys face unexpected fears in the Coney Island Spook House and terrified bride-to-be ponders taking the leap… over Niagara Falls. With a score that incorporates pop, rock, folk and more, each story builds on the last to create a vivid travelogue of Americans learning to overcome their fears and expectations in order to connect and reach their dreams.
See Rock City and Other Destinations, with music by Brad Alexander and book and lyrics by Adam Mathias, received the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book, six Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Music, the Richard Rodgers Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Jerry Bock Award from The BMI Foundation. In 2008 the National Alliance for Musical Theatre presented See Rock City and Other Destinations as part of their annual New Musical Festival, and in 2010 it premiered Off-Broadway at the Duke Theatre on 42nd Street. Now it is coming to London for the first time in a brand new production.
Casting includes Richard Dawes (Little Me), Laurel Dougall (Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens), Barney Glover (Footloose), Ricky Johnston (The Last Five Years, Spirit of the Dance), Kris Marc-Joseph (Violet), Kathleen Larken (Les Funky Bitches Fantastique), Joshua Leclair (The Baker’s Wife), Alex Lodge (Rags the Musical), Georgia Permutt (Meet Me in St Louis), Neil Stewart (Chess), Nancy Sullivan (The Fastest Clock in the Universe, Beautiful Thing, Les Miserables), Sinead Wall (The Return of the Soldier) and Rebecca Withers (Applause).
See Rock City and Other Destinations’ UK premiere will be directed by Graham Hubbard with musical direction by Matt Ramplin and lighting design by Tom Boucher. It is produced by Aria Entertainment and Szpiezak Productions.
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