Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1996 (Nonesuch) In telling this bleak, based-in-truth story of a Kentucky man trapped in a cave and the media circus that surrounds him and his family during the …
I had never seen anything quite like it, and it grew on me slowly. But I can’t stop thinking about, and humming snippets from, La Mirada Theatre’s revival of “Floyd Collins…
La Mirada has created a small space in its huge space, by curtaining off the wings and the house, and placing seating on three sides of the stage. The result is a theatre that is simultaneou…
SWEET From its striking opening tableau, to its full-cast musical prologue, "The Ballad Of Floyd Collins," accompanied by teenaged balladeer Jewell Estes (Matt Magnusson) on guitar, to our f…
I CAN'T CAVE ENOUGH In 1917, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins discovered Crystal Cave. Located in the same area as Mammoth Cave"the longest cave system known in the world"the site operat…
Patrick Street Productions (PSP) and Talk is Free Theatre present the Vancouver premiere of Floyd Collins March 11-30 at the newly opened York Theatre on Commercial Drive.
Patrick Street Productions (PSP) and Talk is Free Theatre will present the Vancouver premiere of Floyd Collins March 11-30 at the newly opened York Theatre on Commercial Drive.
Directed with clarity and an open heart by Lindsey Larson, the tale of a central Kentucky cave explorer whose entrapment became big news in the mid-1920s soars musically under the expert and…
THE YODELING ROCKS, THE SHOW DOES NOT Before Adam Guettel was declared the next Sondheim by many for his beautiful, swelling Light in the Piazza score, he drew on the rich folk sounds of Ken…
Composer Adam Guettel certainly knows his way around a musical’s concluding song. In The Light in the Piazza, which is receiving an award-winning, sold-out production at Theo Ubique up…
Director Peter Marston Sullivan should be proud of his cast, a crack team making the most of a so-so show. This overly long and inconsistent source material makes for an overall unremarkable…
BoHo Theatre will close its 2011-2012 season with Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's musical Floyd Collins, to run June 15- July 15 at Theater Wit.
Directed by Peter Marston Sullivan, the …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe story of the 33 trapped Chilean miners gripped the world for weeks during 2010, but over 80 years previously, and many miles away in Kentucky another story of …
A musical about a man trapped in a cave is no more unlikely than a film on the same subject, and it’s odd that this ambitious 1994 off-Broadway show by Tina Landau (book) and Adam Guet…
Southwark Playhouse; Royal Court; Trafalgar Studios, LondonUnder the railway arches of Southwark Playhouse, bare brickwork gives off a damp pong and the dusky tunnels burrow far back. The pl…
Floyd Collins, “the greatest caver ever known”, is trapped 55 feet below the ground, whilst the national media creates a carnival that turns a very personal tragedy into a sensat…
