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Wonderland

Opened 2011

33 performances

Musical, Modern

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Strictly Vintage Hollywood

A modern retelling of Alice in Wonderland, where a young New York schoolteacher named Alice follows the White Rabbit into a fantastical underground world beneath Central Park. She encounters a mad tea party, a tyrannical Queen of Hearts, and must find her inner strength to defeat the forces of chaos and return home to her daughter.

"Wonderland,": the show's own period marketing line.

Music
Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics
Jack Murphy
Book
Jack Murphy, Gregory Boyd

Productions2 on Broadway

1905
Majestic TheatreBroadway Original, opened October 24, 1905
73 performances
2011
RevivalBroadway Revival, opened April 17, 2011, directed by Gregory Boyd
33 performances

Recordings 2 recordings

2011
Wonderland: Alice Through a Whole New Looking Glass
Wonderland: Alice Through a Whole New Looking Glass Masterworks Broadway, released May 3, 2011
Worldwide
2011
Wonderland: Alice Through a Whole New Looking Glass Masterworks Broadway 88697 88669 2, released May 3, 2011
United States

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Wonderland matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor

Wonderland, formerly called Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure or Wonderland: A New Alice, is a musical play with a book by Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. The story, a contemporary version of the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll, is set in New York City and focuses on writer Alice Cornwinkle and her 10-year-old daughter Chloe. After various workshops and productions of the musical in Tampa, Florida and Houston, Texas, the show premiered on Broadway on April 17, 2011, closing a month later, on May 15, 2011.

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