Dragons
2014 Winter MUFTI Series: Celebrating Sheldon Harnick
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Directed by Maggie L. Harrer Music Direction by Beth Ertz
January 31-February 2, 2014
With David Buskin, Ed Dixon, Danny Gardner, Katherine Henly, Mary Page Nance, Camille Palmisano, Laura O. Pfortmiller, Alan Schmuckler, Gordon Stanley, Marcus Stevens, Olga Talyn, Stephanie Umoh, Bray Wilkins, & William Youmans
Synopsis: DRAGONS features book, music, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and is based on Yevgeny Schwartz’s play, THE DRAGON. After suffering through the siege of Leningrad in WWII, Schwartz felt that the Russian people deserved something better than life under the tyrant Stalin. He couldn’t very well write a play about that and hope to have it produced in Soviet Russia, so he wrote a charming fantasy about a knight who rescues a damsel in distress from a dragon and what happens thereafter. Harnick’s musical adaption preserves the charm, humor and romance of Schwartz’s play while making the tale applicable to life under any form of government (including ours).
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