Saved
Opening Night: June 4, 2008
Closing: June 22, 2008
Theater: Playwrights Horizons
Good girl Mary’s good deeds are met with dire consequences, and she is forced to question everything she’s ever believed. Through it all, she finds faith in unexpected places and learns what it truly means to be saved. Based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Saved!
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June 4, 2008
Text messages are zipping this way and that, suffusing the suburban airwaves with digital indignation.
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June 4, 2008
Perhaps keenly aware of the old adage that "satire is what closes on Saturday night," Michael Friedman, Rinne Groff, and John Dempsey, the creators of the new musical Saved, now at Playwrights Horizons, have transformed the deeply sardonic 2004 film about life in a Christian high school into a surprisingly earnest tuner about adolescent (and occasionally adult) angst and the struggle to maintain faith. The often-engaging, rarely-offensive result is likely to disappoint fans of the movie — or anyone expecting a broad comedy — yet will probably appeal to a wider spectrum of theatergoers.
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