The songs of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, from "Suddenly, Seymour" to
"Under the Sea," have become part of the American subconscious, but few
have heard their first musical,
Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr.
Rosewater. The 1979 show tells the story of Eliot Rosewater
(Santino Fontana), a millionaire who drunkenly decides to blow his
fortune on an impoverished town after being inspired by the utopian
vision of novelist Kilgore Trout (James Earl Jones). But there are
forces who want to put the kibosh on Eliot's philanthropy like Norman
Mushari (Skylar Astin), a lawyer plotting to have Eliot declared insane.
With an irresistible crazy-quilt score that volleys between pop,
ragtime, Gilbert & Sullivan, and proto-Disney ballads,
God Bless
You, Mr. Rosewater deserves to be part of our world again.
View
the Rosewater album booklet.