This Side of Paradise
music and lyrics by Nancy Harrow
book by Will Pomerantz and Nancy Harrow
at Theatre at St. Clements
NYC
direction and musical staging: Will Pomerantz
sets by: Troy Hourie
lighting by: Cory Pattak
costumes by: Devon Painter
sound by: Steve Fontaine
cast:
Eve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holly Twyford
Scottie . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mandy Bruno
Hemingway . . . . . . . . . Clark Carmichael
Callaghan . . . . . . . . . . Jamie LaVerdiere
F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . Michael Shawn Lewis
Young Zelda . . . . . . . . Rachel Moulton
Zelda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maureen Mueller
The Doctor . . . . . . . . . Michael Sharon
selected press:
"Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald... are resurrected in THIS SIDE OF PARADISE."
"Accomplished.... dazzling... excellent."
– Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"Thrilling and devastating... "
"Lingers in the mind... the perfect subject for a musical."
– The New Yorker
"Pomerantz has done a fine job directing."
"It's remarkable to see a musical with such ambitious content."
– The Epoch Times
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a note from Jackson R. Bryar, Distinguished Professor and Fitzgerald Scholar:
"This is just a brief note to tell you how much I enjoyed This Side of Paradise. I have been reading, teaching, studying, and writing about the lives and works of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald for fifty years, and I have read and/or seen most of the fiction and drama written about them in the last five decades.
I can say without hesitation that the portrayal of these two figures is the most accurate and nuanced I have experienced.
I commend you for giving Scott and Zelda's complex and rather tragic story the theatrical depiction it deserves, but has heretofore never really had."
– Jackson R. Bryer, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
Jackson Bryer is the author, editor or co-editor of several books by or about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, among them Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (2002), F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives (200), and F.Scott Fitzgerald at 100: Centenary Tributes by American Writers. (1996). He is past president of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society.