The Music of Fryderyk Chopin
Book by Hershey Felder
Directed by Joel Zwick
A co-production with Eighty-Eight Entertainment
Special Presentation · Thrust Stage
EXTENDED! July 25--August 10, 2014
Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes, no intermission
You've seen Hershey Felder as George Gershwin on the hot streets of 1920s New York. You've seen him on the conductor's podium revealing Maestro Leonard Bernstein's heart. Now come back with Hershey to Paris in 1848...to a work of love and art and the place where his soul resides, in the depths of Chopin's music. In his passionate portrayal of the "Poet of the Piano," Hershey reveals the beloved and romantic composer's secrets about his creations-and the secrets he carried to his grave-against a gorgeous, lush score of more than a dozen compositions. Come back with Hershey to meet the mysterious Monsieur Chopin. "[Felder] carries a rapt audience along on a wave of true, powerful, and wordless passion," declares the Boston Globe.