![]() ![]() ![]() But when he does, he gives her a vial of the fountain of youth, and asks her to keep it until she’s seventeen, at which time she will be the same age as he, and won’t that be fine? What she does about that offer is the stuff of which the far more engrossing second act is comprised. She has finally found a friend, and he doesn’t want to ruin everything by telling her the truth about his odd condition. One night, when she dares to head for a local fair, she meets Jesse Tuck, the seventeen year old member of the family that can never die. ![]() She’s sort of stuck in the neighborhood, and her mother fusses over her more than she’d like. Winnie is only eleven, so she hasn’t had much adventure, and certainly no romance in her life. Winnie’s mother offers Carolee Carmello a chance to move from Finding Neverland to this world of Brigadoon in which once you’ve swallowed the magical water, you can join those good folks in Scotland, except they only come alive for one day every hundred years. It’s Granny who seems the more liberated, and she’s played like a pleasant kook by Pippa Pearthree, who’s not above making many a point by thrusting her knitting needles into the air, and at her adversaries, particularly the Man in the Yellow Suit. The eleven year old central character is Winnie Foster, a fatherless girl whose mother and granny are usually at odds as to how much freedom she’s to be allowed. Photo by Joan Marcus.Īs played by veteran Terrence Mann, he is a very merry fellow, and Mann is giving a broad performance in the Danny Kaye tradition. Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Jesse Tuck) and Sarah Charles Lewis (Winnie Foster). Their condition is all a big secret until danger lurks, because of its discovery by a circus performer called The Man In The Yellow Suit, who is something of a soothsayer, who claims to be able to tell anyone’s age merely by looking into their eyes. The story, based on a novel by Natalie Babbitt, tells of the Tuck family of four, all destined to live forever because of a drink they’d imbibed from a pond in a forest near their home. This pretty-as-a picture new musical is by newcomers to the musical theatre, book writers Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, Composer Chris Miller, and lyricist Nathan Tysen. ![]()
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