Wings

Wings

Music by Jeffrey Lunden
Book and Lyrics by Arthur Perlman
From the play Wings by Arthur Kopit

Wings

Wings

Music by Jeffrey Lunden
Book and Lyrics by Arthur Perlman
From the play Wings by Arthur Kopit

Overview

In her adventurous youth, Emily was an aviatrix who fearlessly walked on the wings of the family biplane. Just as she once plummeted dizzyingly through space, she is now falling through inner space as the result of a stroke. This extraordinary musical takes us inside Emily's mind as this gallant woman gropes her way toward the cave of memory, away from the scrambled words and short-circuited thoughts that hold her captive. With breathtaking simplicity, Wings charts Emily's hesitant recovery as she begins regaining the vocabulary to accompany her reawakened emotions. But a relapse hurls her back into the void, this time to face death. In this musical's exultant view, however, Emily has merely taken flight once again, the curiosity and bravery that prompted her girlish exploits having seized her anew.

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Details

  • Genre: Adaptation (Stage & Screen)
  • Time Period: Present Day, 1970s
  • Cast Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Target Audience: Adult, Senior, Pre-Teen (Age 11-13), Teen (Age 14-18)

Authors

Jeffrey Lunden

Arthur Perlman (Book and Lyrics) and Jeffrey Lunden (Music/Orchestrations) are authors of the award-winning adaptation of Arthur Kopit's Wings, produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York (1994 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical) and The Good ...

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Arthur Perlman

Arthur Perlman (Book and Lyrics) and Jeffrey Lunden (Music/Orchestrations) are authors of the award-winning adaptation of Arthur Kopit's Wings, produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York (1994 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical) and The Good ...

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Arthur Kopit

Arthur Kopit (1937-2021), throughout a career spanning seven decades, authored an extraordinary string of admired, acclaimed and award-winning stage works, beginning with Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, which Jerome Robbins directed on ...

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