Paradise Square makes quite the reach. A musical about the build-up to New York’s horrific Draft Riots of 1863 reaches to the past to tell us about the present. It reaches across cultures to …
those latter two courtesy of Garth Drabinsky, the producer attempting a comeback withafter some financial flim-flam landed him in a Canadian prison; he was paroled in 2013 after serving 17 months.entices in its opening moments when projected film of modern-day New York gives way to the immense, multi-level 19th Century tavern and dance hall that gives the musical its name.
If you’ve started to discern some old Silent Movie melodrama here, fasten your seatbelts. Tiggens has ginned up some fines against the tavern that he knows will put the venue out of business. The tavern’s solution: Put on a show. More specifically, an old-fashioned Irish dance contest, with the Irish and Black communities getting a chance to show off their respective stuff.
So that, then, is the set-up. A tenuous peace exists in this place where everybody knows your name, or thinks they do, and one or two unearthed skeletons will be enough to strike the match that will set Five Points aflame.usic by Jason Howland , and lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare provide the bulk of the anthemic and rather bombastic score, with just enough Celtic and Blues undertones to distinguish the songs from generic Broadway showtunes.
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