A Tony-winning composer looks back on his 2014 show — now onstage at Signature Theatre — and reflects on the state of modern musical theater.
in June. And his latest show, the journalism-centric musical “The Connector,” is set to premiere off-Broadway in January.
In a phone interview earlier this month from New York, Brown reflected on his “Bridges” experience, renewed appreciation for his work and the concerns that come with mentoring the next generation of theater makers.The score to “The Bridges of Madison County” is often lush and operatic, but also folksy and fast-paced. How do you balance a range of eclectic sounds with tonal consistency?I think I’m very aware of setting.
I think there’s a very obvious political element to that, but there’s also, to me, a very powerful personal element to that. It’s just this sense of, “What do we trust about people? What do we trust about the stories that they tell us?” There’s a lot about the show that is very explosive, in a way, because it takes an audience to certain places and then asks the audience to make some decisions about what they saw.
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