Kanab’s Historic Redstone Theater Presents
Daddy Long Legs
February 2-14, 2024, at 7 PM. House opens at 6:30.
Daddy Long Legs is a new musical and sweeping romance filled with wit, whimsy, and a soaring musical score. Based on the classic novel, which inspired the 1955 movie starring Fred Astaire, Daddy Long Legs is a beloved tale in the spirit of Jane Austen, The Brontë Sisters, and “Downton Abbey.” Daddy Long Legs features music and lyrics by Tony Award-nominated composer/lyricist Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre) and Tony-winning librettist/director John Caird (Les Misérables), and is a “rags-to-riches” tale of newfound love.
Jerusha Abbott (Lyndsey Wulfenstein) is the “Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home” until a mysterious benefactor (Matt Hansen) decides to send her to college to be educated as a writer. Required to write him a letter once a month, she is never to know the benefactor’s identity – so she invents one for him: Daddy Long Legs. Although she knows he will never respond to her letters, she grows increasingly fond of this elusive and kindly gentleman. But another relationship soon begins to develop in Jerusha’s life. Jervis Pendleton is the well-to-do, “youngish” uncle of one of Jerusha’s roommates, who introduces her to a world of literature, travel, and adventure. Through her correspondence with Daddy Long Legs and her growing intimacy with Jervis, Jerusha’s letters chronicle her emergence as a delightfully independent “New American Woman.” Yet, there is one startling fact that Jerusha has yet to uncover – a fact that will change her life forever.
Daddy Long Legs is accompanied by a trio of live musicians, including Russell Wulfenstein on Piano, Tony Schoenfeld on Guitar, and Michelle Cluff on Cello.
This showing is produced by The W Duo (thewduo.com) and directed by Rachelle Robinson.
We hope you will join us at the Redstone Theater – redstonetheater.com – 29 W. Center, Kanab, Utah. Tickets are $20 for youth and $26 for adults. All seating is general admission.
