TimeLine Theatre unearths Juno, a short-lived Broadway musical based on a play by Sean O'Casey.
by Albert Williams
Six years ago, TimeLine Theatre had a hit with Fiorello!, the neglected 1959 musical about New York City's Depression-era mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Now director Nick Bowling and music director Doug Peck, who shepherded that show to success, have unearthed another rarity from 1959: Juno, by playwright Joseph Stein and composer-lyricist Marc Blitzstein, a faithful, straightforward musical adaptation of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey's 1924 tragicomedy Juno and the Paycock.…[ Read more ]