Shows · High Fidelity
High Fidelity
Opened 2006
13 performances
Musical, Modern
Rob, a neurotic Brooklyn record store owner obsessed with making top-five lists, revisits his all-time top-five breakups after his girlfriend Laura walks out on him. Through each failed relationship, Rob tries to understand why he can never commit and why every romance falls apart. With his two oddball record store employees offering unhelpful commentary, Rob must finally grow up and decide if he can stop ranking the past and start living in the present.
- Music
- Tom Kitt
- Lyrics
- Amanda Green
- Book
- David Lindsay-Abaire
Productions1 on Broadway
Recordings 2 recordings
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
High Fidelity is a musical with music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Amanda Green, and a book by David Lindsay-Abaire. Based primarily on the 1995 Nick Hornby novel of the same name, the plot focuses on Rob Gordon, a Brooklyn record shop owner in his thirties obsessed with making top five lists for everything, always observing rather than participating in life. When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, he goes through a painful re-evaluation of his life and lost loves (with a little help from his music) and he slowly learns that he has to grow up and let go of his self-centered view of the world before he can find real happiness. Premiering in Boston in 2006, the musical eventually moved to Broadway, op…
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