Daddy Long Legs, the new musical adaptation of Jean Webster’s classic novel by Paul Gordon and John Caird (who also penned the musical Jane Eyre which played Broadway several years ago) opens tonight at the TheatreWorks Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
The two-hander tells the story of Jerusha Abbott (Megan McGinnis), a talented orphan with a wry sense of humor sent to a prestigious college by an anonymous benefactor (Jervis Pendleton, played by Robert Adelman Hancock). With the stipulation that she write him monthly letters, and having only seen a glimpse of his elongated shadow on a wall, she whimsically dubs him ‘Daddy Long Legs’. Revealed through her witty wistful letters, her journey to independence, education, and romance chronicles the emergence of a delightfully liberated and self-confident American woman.
Designed by David Farley, who is responsible for the scenic design of the current revival of A Little Night Music, the show is directed by Caird.
Purchases from Amazon.com
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:
1. Daddy Long Legs Novel by Jean Webster.
2. Daddy Long Legs DVD of the film adaptation.
Musical Cyberspace 
Listen to that RAGTIME
It seems my post on the new minimalist production of Camelot has caused some folks to get a little hot under the collar. To set the record straight – particularly to those individuals who’ve reacted in a way that perhaps has allowed their own agenda to compromise their reading of that post – I didn’t say that the production of Ragtime that closes today was a terrible production. I did, in no uncertain terms, state that I felt that particular aspects of the production didn’t measure up to the original production, but despite its shortcomings in that regard, I think it is wonderful that a show like Ragtime can still be produced on Broadway today, albeit at a complete financial loss to its investors. I am sorry that it couldn’t run longer in the current economic and cultural climate in which the Great White Way finds itself today.