When Winnie learns of the magic behind the Tuck's unending youth, she must fight to protect their secret from those who would do anything for a chance at eternal life. Tickets: $40-$100 65, would you do if you had all eternity?Įleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck Family does she get more than she could have imagined. Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto I feel like it’s kind of coming full circle in a great way.”Ĭontact Sam Hurwitt and follow him at /shurwitt.īy Chris Miller, Nathan Tysen, Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, based on the novel by Natalie Babbitt, presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley “The fact that we did write some of our very first songs of our very first Broadway show means a lot, and also that Robert Kelley wanted to do the show. “TheatreWorks is really one of the first theaters that became excited about me and Chris as a writing team,” Tysen says. Artistic director Robert Kelley, who’s directing “Tuck,” also directed a workshop of their thesis musical “The Burnt Part Boys” at the company’s New Works Festival in 2007. In fact, they go way back with TheatreWorks. The earlier commissioned project fell through, but TheatreWorks has commissioned the pair to write another musical that they’ll be working on there in January. “And what really made that week magical is one of the teams was Brian Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan, and Kait Kerrigan is my wife now. “I think there were maybe five teams that were all there for the week, working on different things,” Tysen adds. “We went in and pitched ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ and then the same day this producer, whose name is Beth Williams, had a dinner meeting with another producer named Barry Brown, and he said, ‘So, I just optioned the rights to this young adult book called “Tuck Everlasting,” and I was wondering if you would like to produce it with me.’ And Beth said, ‘That’s crazy! These two guys just pitched this idea, so I know who needs to write it.’ There were other teams that all wrote spec songs trying to get the job, but we ended up getting the gig.” What would you like to do?’” Tysen recalls. “We had the opportunity to pitch to a Broadway producer who just said, ‘I like what you guys are doing. The duo’s mutual love of the book was only the first of several coincidences along the way to their Broadway debut. And believe it or not, on the top of my list was ‘Tuck Everlasting.’” “It was one of the books that made me fall in love with books,” says Tysen, who also wrote the lyrics for Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s world premiere musicals “Amélie” and the upcoming “Paradise Square.” “And after we wrote our thesis musical together, Chris and I made a list of dream projects that someday we’d like to adapt and turn into a musical. The story of a young girl who stumbles upon a family that accidentally became immortal by drinking from an enchanted spring, the 1975 children’s novel “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt was a book that both remember fondly from childhood. So we just kept working together for nearly 20 years now.” We loved a lot of the same music and wanted to create the same kind of theater and responded to the same kinds of stories. “We both were the youngest in our class and we sort of gravitated towards each other,” Miller recalls. Miller and Tysen, both 41, met in grad school at New York University. Composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen wrote some of the first songs for the show at a TheatreWorks writers’ retreat in 2010. Although “Tuck Everlasting” comes to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley having already played Broadway in 2016, the musical already has deep roots with the company.
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