A new musical changing the world one rocking chair at a time
Directed bySteve Umberger
Lunch at the Piccadilly is based on Clyde Edgerton's best selling novel and N.Y. Times Notable Book of the same name. With songs by Drama Desk Award winner Mike Craver and directed by Steve Umberger, the showpremiered at Cape Fear Regional Theatre and was developed at the York Theatre Company in New York and in four productions. This production was also a unique collaboration between Playworks and Aldersgate at Blumenthal Performing Arts. Scroll the captioned gallery below for more.
"The themes about family and aging are universal...A funny and heartfelt hit, worthy of its' creators' estimable talents."
Raleigh News & Observer
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Clyde Edgerton is the author of ten novels, a book of advice, a memoir, short stories and essays. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and five of his novels have been New YorkTimes Notable Books.He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington. Mike Craver's Off-Broadway credits include The Oil CitySymphony, Smoke on the Mountain, and Radio Gals. He was a member of the Red Clay Ramblers for many years.
Lunch at the Piccadilly at the York Theatre Company, NY
"Silly and soulful....At the very moment Edgerton confronts despair and loneliness, those issues turn out to be ripe material for satire." Asheville Citizen-Times
"Among the delights here are the pointed satire of the nursing home industry...and the chorus of idiosyncratic, opinionated characters who have more life left in them than anyone quite expects." New York Times (of the novel).
"The musical doesn't shy away from truths about old folks. It puts us inside their heads with gentle and broad wit and a tougher kind of wisdom...A flavorful, diverse score that touches on arcana but more often touches the heart."
Charlotte Observer
The cast: Patricia Cucco, Greg King, Rebecca Koon*, Mary Mossberg*, Bo Stroupe, Trip Plymale* / Original cast members: Bo Thorp, Phoebe Hall, CoCo Shaw*, Rob Summers, Libby Seymour, Vivian Wade-Banks / NY cast additions: Fleur Alys Dobbins*, Neal Mayer*
Original Musical Director/Choreographer
Amy Jones*
Originally produced at Cape Fear Regional Theatre / Bo Thorp, Artistic Director
