Book, lyrics and music by Elizabeth Swados
March 12 and 13, 7 p.m.
March 14, 2 p.m.
Runaways will be an online streamed event. All streamed event ticket sales will be available by online purchase only, at least one hour before showtime.
Runaways is a Tony®-nominated Broadway musical from 1978, devised by Elizabeth Swados through workshops with young people who had lived on the streets of New York City. A collage of songs, dances and spoken word pieces about running away from something – perhaps a home, a parent, a partner, a predator, themselves – this musical is fueled by the energy and resilience of young people. With a mold-breaking, multicultural folk, jazz, pop and rock score, "Runaways" explores the substitutes we find to deal with the loss of family, however effective or self-destructive they may be.
Content warnings: strong language, abuse, suicide and substance abuse.
Book, lyrics and music by Elizabeth Swados; direction by Toby Yatso; music direction by Mario Yniguez; choreography by Hannah Victoria Thomas.
cast:
Evening Calabrese
Xingyu Wang
Liuyi Jiang
McKaylee Todd
Thomas Smith
Wesley Bradstreet
Chris Elliot
Brianna McClure
Taryn Landis
Anna Sera
Jasmine Rodriguez
Hannah Brudnock
Bruno Streck Rodrigues
Daniel Bargen
Elise Daniells
Frenki Hykollari
Gregory Oxley
Audience members attending opening night will be invited to a pre-show discussion with the creative team at 6:30 p.m. by Zoom, as well as a post-performance Virtual Stage Door to meet and greet the cast, sponsored by the Music Theatre and Opera Student Leadership Team.
If you enjoy viewing our performances online, please consider making a financial contribution to the ASU School of Music, Dance and Theatre. Information may be found at musicdancetheatre.asu.edu/giving
This production adheres to all federal, state, local and university guidelines for safety and physical distancing. University COVID-19 information may be found at https://eoss.asu.edu/health/announcements/coronavirus.
Runaways is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com.
I hope that you are planning to cast an actual Deaf actor to play one of the roles (as it was cast on Broadway and played by an actual Deaf actor (Bruce Hlibok). It's important to have an actor with fluency in American Sign Language too.
ReplyDeleteThis show happened last March and a deaf actor was cast in the role
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to a review of this show last spring that mentions the dead actor who uses ASL in the show: https://phxstages.blogspot.com/2021/03/asu-music-theatre-and-operas-runaways.html?m=1
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to a review of this show last spring that mentions the dead actor who uses ASL in the show: https://phxstages.blogspot.com/2021/03/asu-music-theatre-and-operas-runaways.html?m=1
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