Trick or Treat?

I've been following this show and was lucky enough to see both it's reading at last year's New York Musical Theatre Festival, and it's limited run at the York Theatre Company last May. To my knowledge it's the only musical to specifically center around Halloween. We've had White Christmas, Easter Parade and even the movie Holiday Inn which celebrated many different holidays, but didn't mention Halloween!

According to this article in Playbill:

Broadway's current Elphaba, Shoshana Bean, will make a special guest appearance at the official opening of Stephen Schwartz's new family musical, Captain Louie, on Oct. 31.

Bean will be the evening's celebrity reader, reading Ezra Jack Keats' children's book, "The Trip," on which the new musical is based.

Previews for Captain Louie, the family musical that played a limited engagement in May at the York Theatre Company, began at Off Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre Oct. 28. The musical features a score by Schwartz, a libretto by Anthony Stein and direction by Meridee Stein. The Off-Broadway run is being produced by Stein, Kurt Peterson and Bob Reich.

I think it's a treat...let's see what the critics say!

Happy Halloween!

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