Fly by Night Review

The great Northeast blackout of 1965 is the backdrop for Fly By Night, an often magical, occasionally meandering “rock fable” kept aloft by a winning group of stage vets. The dark musical, composed by a trio of multi-tasking Yale grads, is having its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons. Youthful pros Adam Chanler-Berat, Patti Murin and Allison Case form the charming love triangle at the center of Fly By Night, which at heart is a tale about the deeply personal ways we all power through life’s darkness. Chanler-Berat is Harold, a frustrated sandwich maker whose mother has just died. Murin and Case are Daphne and Miriam, sisters from South Dakota, who venture to New York so extrovert Daphne can pursue an acting career.