The Mad Ones
Opening Night: November 16, 2017
Closing: December 17, 2017
Theater: 59E59 Theaters
Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved…Samantha Brown balances on the edge of her future, car keys in hand. As she sits in the driver’s seat, she faces a choice: will she follow in her mother’s footsteps, or take the dare of her impetuous best friend and chart a new path? This contemporary and compelling score from one of NYC’s most exciting new songwriting teams immerses audiences in the complex inner life of a young woman on the brink of change. When every choice feels like life and death, how do you turn the key?
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November 20, 2017
One thing to be said for “The Mad Ones,” a musical about a young woman stuck in her car, is that it is highly disciplined in its automotive imagery.
Samantha isn’t literally stuck in that car; she’s stuck in her life on the cusp of college. But her first song is called “The Girl Who Drove Away.” (Another is called “Drive.”) Her best friend, Kelly, keeps telling her to take her metaphorical foot off the brake and throw away the map.
Elsewhere there are plenty of crossroads and roads less taken, not to mention references to “On the Road,” from which the show derives its overambitious title. As if that weren’t enough, Sam’s boyfriend, Adam, works in a tire shop; Beverly, her mother, is a car safety expert.
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