"Pride and Prejudice" the New Musical

Imagine taking "Pride and Prejudice," the best-known, best-loved,
and most-filmed of Jane Austen's novels, and turning it into a
musical. Where would you begin? What would you cut for the stage
while still leaving in the favorite characters and witty
dialogue?

That's exactly the challenge faced by two LDS composers, Deborah
Morris and Ann Kapp Andersen; the premiere run of their new musical
theater version of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is currently
running at the SCERA theater in Orem and will be appearing later
this month at BYU Education Week. We'll include musical excerpts
and hear the authors tell about converting this world-renowned
literary masterpiece into a 2-hour stage musical.

That's this week on The Cricket and Seagull...