A Second Chance: A Musical Love Story Featuring Brian and Diane Sutherland
Signature Theatre (4200 Cambell Avenue Arlington, VA 22206)
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- $41.00
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- $21.00*
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The last date listed for A Second Chance was Sunday December 11, 2011 / 2:00pm.
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Imelda V. Tiongson on What to Wear
Can get away with dressy jeans and sweater.
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So many excellent dining choices along restaurant row.
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Wonderful choices along Cambell
20 Goldstar Member Reviews
RC
The actors were fine - the story was a bit thin - but the main problem is that the "musical" score did nothing to enhance the show - and in fact may have detracted. The songs were not memorable and more akin to sung dialogue.Written on Dec 03 2011
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William Grote
The music sounded like Gregorian plainsong composed by Sondheim.Written on Nov 24 2011
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Goldstar Member
Two characters.Written on Nov 21 2011
No real memorable songs except a depressing one (damaged goods) sung in both short acts.
We learn nothing about the woman's previous relationship (which ended in divorce)but only about the man's (his wife is now dead)
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Veronica Perry
What a perfectly delightful and charming show--given that the entire performance was supposed to be in song, I wasn't sure what to expect. But I found it to be enthralling--the actors, a husband and wife, gave incredibly nuanced and believable performances as a pair of mid-life romance seekers--and the lyrics, which were very real and compelling, were accompanied by a small group of very capable musicians. I recommend it highly! Go!Written on Dec 12 2011
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More Information About A Second Chance
Website
http://www.signature-theatre.org/shows/a-second-chance .
Description
This one-act lyrical duet explores the first year’s emotional journey between Dan and Jenna, who meet in mid-life, still trying to come to terms with their emotional pasts, while irresistibly drawn to finding a second chance at love and happiness.
Ted Shen (Book, Music & Lyrics)
After a 30-year career at the investment bank, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he had served as Chairman of the DLJ Capital Markets Group since 1984, Ted Shen retired in 1999 to refocus his attention on his non-profit board work in education and the arts, The Shen Family Foundation, and his own composing. Mr. Shen’s present and past nonprofit board affiliations include the Yale Corporation, the Yale University Art Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, The Packer Collegiate Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, and the Art Commission of the City of New York. The Shen Family Foundation, of which Mr. Shen and his wife, Mary Jo Shen, are co-executive directors, provides funding support for: the commissioning programs at Signature Theatre and the New York Public Theater for new musical theater works by composers who write with exceptional originality; major productions of works by Stephen Sondheim; and the Shen Musical Theater Curriculum at Yale University.
A Second Chance marks Mr. Shen’s debut as a musical theater writer. It was presented in concert version by the New York Public Theater at Joe’s Pub in September 2010. During his college years at Yale, he studied music theory and played in a jazz band, and from 2001 to 2003 he studied songwriting with Ricky Ian Gordon.
Brian Sutherland (Dan) Signature: And the Curtain Rises. Broadway: The Sound of Music, 1776, Victor/Victoria, Steel Pier, Cats, Dance a Little Closer, A Change in the Heir, 110 in the Shade (NYC Opera). Tours: The Light in the Piazza, Disney’s On the Record, Cabaret (with Joel Grey), 42nd Street (European tour). DC Area: Arena Stage: Guys and Dolls, Fords Theatre Shenandoah. Regional: St. Louis Rep: Kiss Me, Kate; Fantasticks; Pittsburgh Public: Man of La Mancha; Guthrie Theatre: Pirates of Penzance; Coconut Grove Playhouse: Breaking Legs; Cincinnati Playhouse: She Loves Me; Indiana Rep: Enter the Guardsman. Upcoming Film: Burning Blue.
Diane Sutherland (Jenna) Signature: Sycamore Trees (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble). Broadway: The Light in the Piazza, She Loves Me (Amalia-1994 Revival), 1776,Three Sisters, Song and Dance, Cats (original company), A Chorus Line. Off-Broadway: Transport Group: First Ladies Suite, Requiem for William; The Waves. National Tours: The Light in the Piazza, Guys & Dolls (50th Anniversary Tour), Cabaret, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, (First National Tour) Cats (Helen Hayes Award). Regional: A Civil War Christmas, Kiss Me Kate, Enter the Guardsman, Edwin Drood, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, American Vaudeville. Recordings: She Loves Me (1994), Guys & Dolls (50th Anniversary), Gershwin’s Tell Me More, Man with a Load of Mischief (2004).
About the Ticket Supplier: Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre is a Tony Award(r)-winning, non-profit professional theater company with a mission to produce contemporary musicals and plays, reinvent classic musicals, develop new work, and reach its community through engaging educational and outreach opportunities.