SLOW TRAIN COMINGA New book by Todd Almond
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Almond delivers a textured portrait of musical theater’s relevance... that probes deeper questions about art’s power to connect and inspire. Theater lovers ought to snap this up." -Publishers Weekly Todd Almond is one of our best and brightest songwriters. I look forward to anything that comes out of his brain.” In his resonant debut, actor Almond traces the rise and fall of the Tony-nominated musical Girl from the North Country against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. Starting with the show’s earliest incarnations in 2017 on London’s West End, Almond--who played one of the residents of a boardinghouse where the play takes place--captures the anticipation leading up to its March 2020 Broadway opening and shutdown days afterward; the strangeness and anxiety of a $2 billion industry reduced to email communication; and the doubts that set in as he was alienated from his fellow actors... read more
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