2022
Back To The Way Things Were
Written by Michael Gene Sullivan with Marie Cartier
Music & Lyrics by Daniel Savio
Directed by Velina Brown
Musical Direction by Daniel Savio
BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WERE featured Andre Amarotico, Lizzie Calogero, Norman Gee (July 2 - July 31), Alicia M.P. Nelson, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro and Michael Gene Sullivan (Aug. 6 - Sept. 5).
And band members William Durkee, Daniel Savio, and Jason Young.
In a country where we can finally stop wearing masks to get pizza and go to the movies, and where we again have a president who isn’t dumb as a two dollar ham, hard-working, middle-aged liberals Ralph and Alice wistfully yearn for The before Times, when things seemed normal. But for Zoe - their twenty-something daughter who grew up in a world of climate change, housing crashes, student debt, the rise of dictatorships and the fall of democracies - there is no “better” to go back to. For her the purgatory of the last two years was just a pause from life in Hell. So what’s the point? Isn’t it easier to just give up?