February House
Opening Night: May 22, 2012
Closing: June 10, 2012
Theater: Public Theater
Visionary and flamboyant editor George Davis transforms a dilapidated Brooklyn boardinghouse into a bohemian commune for the leading lights of 1940s New York. Residents include novelist Carson McCullers, composer Benjamin Britten, poet W.H. Auden, and the infamous Gypsy Rose Lee. The luminaries of 7 Middagh Street form a tumultuous and remarkable makeshift family, and search for love, inspiration, and refuge from the looming war in Europe. Inspired by true events, this powerful and funny new musical marks the first commission of The Public’s Musical Theater Initiative. February House will be developed this summer at New York Stage and Film.
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May 23, 2012
When Carson McCullers explores her own mind these days on a stage at the Public Theater, the sound of a banjo goes with her. Now a banjo might seem too obvious a choice for the musical underlining of the thoughts of a Southern writer adrift in the North. But then you haven’t heard the banjo music composed by Gabriel Kahane for “February House,” the very literary new musical that opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater.
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