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|name=Kid Victory |image= Kid-victory-vineyard-theatre-logo-2017.jpg |image_size=270px |caption=Kid Victory logo (2017 Vineyard Theatre Production) |story=John Kander Greg Pierce |music=John Kander |lyrics=Greg Pierce |book=Greg Pierce |basis= |productions=2015 Signature Theatre 2017 Vineyard Theatre |awards=Outer Critics Circle Award - Outstanding New Musical (nominated) }} Kid Victory is a musical with the story by John Kander and Greg Pierce, and music by John Kander, book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, co-produced by Vineyard Theatre and Signature Theatre. ProductionThe musical premiered at the Signature Theatre, Arlington, Virginia from February 17 to March 22, 2015.[1] The show was subsequently reworked and performed Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre from February 1, 2017 to March 19, 2017.[2] Direction was by Liesl Tommy with choreography by Christopher Windom.[1] Its 2017 showing was described by its producers as a "hauntingly mesmerizing original musical" about "breaking out and breaking through".[2] BackgroundKander and Pierce met when Kander visited students at his alma mater, Oberlin College, where Pierce was a student. They kept in touch as Pierce graduated, moved to New York, and began his career in theater, acting and writing. The two wrote a chamber musical together, The Landing, which ran Off-Broadway in 2013. [3] For Kid Victory, they looked at many kidnapping cases. Kander observed :"I think the thing that appealed was that there’s nothing about adjusting back into life, or very little in terms of our research. When you think about it, that’s the main thing. Terrible things happen to people, but what happens then? How do you manage? Who do you become?"[4]Plot17 year old High school senior and sailboat enthusiast Luke returns to his small, Kansas town after an unplanned, unannounced one-year absence. Luke finds it difficult to reconnect with friends and family or to focus on school work. He experiences recurrent flashbacks of his year-long absence and the events and relationship leading up to it. Luke had been communicating on the internet with Michael; his screen name was "Kid Victory". As he tries to readjust, Luke develops a growing friendship with the town misfit, divorcee Emily. His parents, Eileen and Joseph, finally understand that to reconnect with their son, they must confront unnerving truths about his disappearance.[2][5] CastsSources: Playbill;[6] BroadwayWorld[7]
SongsNote: Songs listed as performed in the Off-Broadway production, 2017[8]
Critical responseKid Victory at the Signature Theatre was reviewed by The Washington Times. The reviewer wrote: "This is dark material, made no less traumatic by the fact that this is, after all, a musical. The songs by Mr. Kander and Mr. Pierce vacillate between the morbid and the light of foot... Liesl Tommy’s direction takes full advantage of the Signature’s expansive stage, allowing her to block multiple scenes simultaneously, often in inspired counterpoint. This has the effect of giving the audience a choice of where to direct attention and seeks active participation...the story and the production are strangely lacking in empathy between material and audience.".[9]For its 2017 production, Kid Victory was reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter[10] and by The Guardian[11] Ben Brantley in his review for The New York Times of the Off-Broadway production, wrote: "...the subject of 'Kid Victory' feels especially unpromising for any musical that doesn’t aspire to grim, grand (guignol) opera or creepy camp. And this latest teaming of Mr. Kander and Mr. Pierce ... definitely has other aspirations, toward a laudable but elusive psychology delicacy... Mr. Kander mines a number of musical veins, including the jaunty jazz and vaudeville pastiches for which he is best known, with results that are scattered, a bit bewilderingly, among the characters."[12]Awards and nominationsThe Off-Broadway production received 2017 nominations:
References1. ^1 Kid Victory Signature Theatre 2. ^1 2 Kid Victory Vineyard Theatre 3. ^The Landing vineyardtheatre.org, retrieved October 23, 2017 4. ^Pressley, Nelson. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/kanders-second-act-kander-and-pierce-with-new-musical-kid-victory/2015/02/12/0d9ef870-b095-11e4-827f-93f454140e2b_story.html "Kander’s second act: Kander and Pierce, with new musical 'Kid Victory' "] The Washington Post, February 13, 2015 5. ^Kid Victory castalbums.com 6. ^Franklin, Marc J. "Meet the Cast of 'Kid Victory' at the Vineyard Theatre" Playbill, January 5, 2017 7. ^[https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Signature-Theatre-Sets-Cast-for-New-John-Kander-Greg-Pierce-Musical-KID-VICTORY-Performances-Begin-Next-Month-20150121 Kid Victory] broadwayworld.com, January 21, 2015 8. ^Sommer, Elyse. "A CurtainUp Review. 'Kid Victory' " CurtainUp, February 18, 2017 9. ^Althoff, Eric."THEATER REVIEW: ‘Kid Victory’" The Washington Times, March 1, 2015 10. ^Review of Kid Victory The Hollywood Reporter, February 2, 2017 11. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/feb/22/kid-victory-review-musical-john-kander-greg-pierce Review of Kid Victory] The Guardian, February 22, 2017. 12. ^Brantley, Ben. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/theater/kid-victory-review.html?mcubz=0 Review of Kid Victory] The New York Times, February 22, 2017 13. ^Staff. "2017 Lucille Lortel Awards Presented May 7" Playbill, May 7, 2017 14. ^Cox, Gordon. [https://variety.com/2017/legit/news/outer-critics-circle-nominations-2017-full-list-1202394695/ "Outer Critics Circle Nominations: 'Anastasia,' 'Hello, Dolly!' Lead the Pack (Full List)"] Variety, April 25, 2017 15. ^McPhee, Ryan. "2017 Drama Desk Awards Presented June 4" Playbill, June 4, 2017 16. ^McPhee, Ryan. " 'Bandstand', 'Sweet Charity', and More Earn Chita Rivera Award Nominations" Playbill, May 1, 2017 External links
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