Flying Over Sunset - 2021 Broadway History , Info & More
Vivian Beaumont Theatre (Broadway)
150 West 65th St. at Broadway New York, NY 10023
1950s Hollywood. You are at a beautiful beach house overlooking the Pacific with Cary Grant, Clare Boothe Luce and Aldous Huxley… and they are on an acid trip. Together.
That is the bold premise of FLYING OVER SUNSET, a new musical written and directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner James Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Falsettos). Join three extraordinary people as they take an exhilarating journey into the most colorful corners of the human psyche – delving into their private desires, hopes and secrets. Carmen Cusack (Bright Star), Harry Hadden-Paton (My Fair Lady) and Tony Yazbeck (On the Town) lead the cast in this brilliantly imagined story of revelation and connection.
FLYING OVER SUNSET features a gorgeous score written by Pulitzer Prize, Emmy® and Tony Award winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal) and Tony nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens). Michelle Dorrance, the world-renowned dancer and MacArthur grant winner, makes her theatrical debut as the show’s choreographer. Don’t miss the next breathtakingly original musical from James Lapine – now in previews at Lincoln Center Theater!
Flying Over Sunset - 2021 - Broadway Cast
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‘Flying Over Sunset’ Broadway Review: A Muddy Musical About Cary Grant’s All-Star Acid Trip
7 / 10
If you don't do recreational drugs but your friends do, you know the feeling. Everyone around you has smoked, snorted, dropped or injected something, and they're all having a great time. They all think the conversation they're having about a light bulb is fascinating. You, on the other hand, know they're talking nonsense. They're all on drugs. They're boring.You can replicate that feeling by seeing the new musical 'Flying Over Sunset,' which opened Monday at LCT's Vivian Beaumont Theater. Or, to put it more precisely, you can see the second act of this 160-minute musical.
‘Flying Over Sunset’ Review: A Trippy New Broadway Musical
7 / 10
The show's trippy sensibility is strikingly displayed on Beowulf Boritt's spare, highly stylized cycloramic set and under Bradley King's luscious lighting, which turns the color blue into a juicy fruit so cool and sweet the eye can almost taste it. Mixing up the senses is very much a quality of this thoughtful and unusually literate musical, which book writer and director Lapine has apparently conceived as a head trip with brains.
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Flying Over Sunset History
Other Productions of Flying Over Sunset
| 2021 | Broadway |
Lincoln Center Theatre's Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Flying Over Sunset - 2021 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Bradley King |
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Projection Design | 59 Productions |
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Scenic Design for a Musical | Beowulf Boritt |
| 2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Carmen Cusack |
| 2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | Bradley King |
| 2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Scenic Design (Play or Musical) | Beowulf Boritt |
| 2022 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Video/Projection Design (Play or Musical) | 59 Productions |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Bradley King |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Tom Kitt |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Tom Kitt |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Carmen Cusack |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Beowulf Boritt |
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