Flying Over Sunset, 2021

The run closed January 16, 2022

Opened

December 6, 2021

Closed

January 16, 2022

Performances

37

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Vivian Beaumont Theater

Of the 188 productions we hold that opened in the 2020s and carry a performance count, this is the 171st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it8 named

Emily Pynenburg
Michele Ragusa

6 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 2 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters10 roles held

Harry Hadden-Paton Aldous Huxley
Laura Shoop Maria Huxley
Robert Sella Gerald Heard
Tony Yazbeck Cary Grant
Nehal Joshi Dr. Harris/Father
Atticus Ware Archie Leach
Carmen Cusack Clare Boothe Luce
Kanisha Marie Feliciano Ann Brokaw/Judith
Michele Ragusa Austin/Handmaiden
Emily Pynenburg Rosalia/Sophia Loren

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

James Lapine

Choreographer

Michele Lynch

Orchestrations

Michael Starobin 5

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Flying Over Sunset, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Flying Over Sunset is a musical with music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Michael Korie, and a book by James Lapine. The musical is a fictional account of a meeting between Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant, who all used the drug LSD.

• collaborating with Tom Kitt and Michael Korie on an original musical, Flying Over Sunset (2016, Vineyard Arts Project in Edgartown, Massachusetts) about several famous people who used LSD in the 1950s; The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 399
• Flying over Sunset was indefinitely suspended on that day that will forever live in theatrical infamy. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 94

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 2 recordings of Flying Over Sunset document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.