MCC Theater continues its inaugural season at its new home in Hell's Kitchen with the world premiere of a new musical that reunites the Tony and Grammy Award-winning creators of Spring Awakening - Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik. Alice By Heart, inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is directed and co-written by Jessie Nelson.
Performances are staged at The Newman Mills Theater.
(Photos by Deen van Meer)
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11 images When the madness of the world is too much to bear, we take refuge in the stories we love. In the rubble of the London Blitz of World War II, Alice Spencer’s budding teen life is turned upside down, and she and her dear friend Alfred are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. When the ailing Alfred is quarantined, Alice encourages him to escape with her into their cherished book and journey down the rabbit hole to wonderland. As they travel through the tale, Alice By Heart explores the poignancy of first love, coming to terms with loss, and finding the courage to move forward. This world premiere musical encourages us all to celebrate the transformational power of the imagination, even in the harshest of times.
The latest entry in the multitude of adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s seminal novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” the musical Alice By Heart, is the inaugural offering at the newly opened MCC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater. The creative team behind this effort has some pretty serious chops. The book was co-written by Steven Sater (Spring Awakening) and Jessie Nelson (Waitress) who also... Read more
