
| ReUnion On April 14, 1890---25 years to the day after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln---onto the stage to welcome the audience steps Harry Hawk, actor and manager of a band of players, who have clearly seen better days. With great fanfare he announces that we will witness a musical epic in miniature the story of "the late war to save the Union-woven from the very words of those engaged in that heroic struggle. Bedecked with the never to be forgotten melodies of those tempest tossed years, and illuminated by the astonishing wonders of --- The magic lantern!" The dialogue is shaped from the words of more than 75 eyewitnesses to the "American Iliad." Their stories are told in a style that combines Victorian theatre, music hall, vaudeville and the minstrel show, using 26 songs from the beginnings of American popular song. To add "spectacle" to the proceedings Hawk's employs the "Magic lantern" to project illuminations of powerful photographs and images behind the actors. And though he is never seen, the towering figure of Lincoln presides over the story as he did over the Union itself from his meteoric entry onto the national stage to the final moments, when Harry Hawk, standing alone on the stage of Ford's Theatre, relives the awful events of Good Friday, 1865. "Should be seen across the country"---The New York Times "Moving...Clever...Plumbs the emotional depths of those wrenchingly turbulent times...Heartbreaking."" ----- Newsday |
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| NEW Number for info and reservations! 724-366-7923 |
| NEW Number for info and reservations! 724-366-7923 |