The growing pains of a nation are chronicled in this grand pageant of
pre-World War I America--told in the exuberant words and music of the
day.
Like RAGTIME,
this nostalgic (but thrillingly subversive revue) takes us back to turn
of the century America. Remember when the innocent, slower-paced days
of ice cream socials and hoop skirts were giving way to a bustling
world of automobiles, electricity and the telephone? Remember the
American optimism and ingenuity than ran high in leaders like J.P.
Morgan, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford? However, this was also a time of
growing social turmoil, as increased immigration began to change the
cultural and ethnic makeup of the nation.
The story of these
changing times blazes to life in a tuneful, high-spirited brew of
popular songs from 1890 to 1917, performed by five archetypes of the
period: Anna Held, the beautiful music hall star; Emma Goldman, the
notorious socialist; a black domestic worker; a Chaplin-esque Russian
immigrant; and the outrageous Teddy Roosevelt, the youngest man ever to
be elected President.
Despite its small cast, orchestra and unit set, TINTYPES is an epic work about the end of an era.
Year | Category | |
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1981 | Best Musical |
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Moulin Rouge!
Orpheum Theater (5/28 - 6/9) | ||
Little Shop Of Horrors
Theatre West (6/6 - 6/15) | ||
An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare based on Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles
Johnny Carson Theater at the Lied Center for Performing Arts (6/19 - 6/23) | ||
The Play That Goes Wrong
Theatre West (6/27 - 7/7) | ||
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Theatre West (7/18 - 7/26) | ||
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lied Center for Performing Arts (6/11 - 6/12) | ||
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