Tuck Everlasting (musical)
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2016 Broadway Playbill
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| Music | Chris Miller |
| Lyrics | Nathan Tysen |
| Book | Claudia Shear and Tim Federle |
| Basis | Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting |
| Productions | 2015 Atlanta 2016 Broadway |
Tuck Everlasting is a musical based upon the American children's novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. It features music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen and a book by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, with direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw. The musical had its premiere at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2015. It began Broadway previews on March 31, 2016; and opened on April 26, 2016, at the Broadhurst Theatre, in New York City. The production closed on May 29, 2016, after 39 performances.
The story involves Winnie Foster, ten years old in the book, eleven years old in the musical, who is tired of her family and is thinking of running away from her rural hometown of Treegap. One day, while in a wooded area her family owns, she sees a boy about the age of 17 drinking from a spring. He tells her that his name is Jesse Tuck, and forbids her from drinking the water. Soon after, his brother, Miles, and mother, Mae, take her away with them and explain what is happening and why they did what they did. All the while, they are being pursued by a man in a yellow suit, who the day before had approached the Fosters asking questions about their land.
The Tucks explain to Winnie that the spring is a magical one that grants eternal life to anyone who drinks its water and that they discovered its effects by accident after heading to the Treegap area to try and build a new life for themselves. In the process, Miles has had to deal with his wife leaving him and taking their children with her and they have been living in seclusion outside of Treegap for years, reuniting every ten years and drinking from the spring. Winnie grows particularly fond of Jesse and his father, Angus, who teaches her about the life cycle.
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