![]() "I think David Saint (GSP director) has really walked his talk as far as his vision for George Street. Kaller stresses bringing this production to George Street made sense, knowing the excellent reputation of all those involved in the New Brunswick theater. For me, I mostly do plays, I don't do musicals as much as I do plays, it's really about the authenticity of Pearl's story and how that is visualized." ![]() So how do you blowup Woodstock? Yes, we are putting Woodstock on stage, that in and of itself is an exciting and challenging proposition. So we wanted to create a very intimate bungalow colony and then a more in the world feeling. ![]() We have to remember there was no internet then, there were no fax machines, there were no cellphones and all the sudden as Pam says standing in the middle of a bungalow colony watching hippies go by, seeing non-Jewish people and seeing Black people and Asian people, Latinx people and just people of color and it was in her DNA to kind of say oh there's more in this world. So every decision that Pam and I made about the physical production of this show comes from Pearl's heart, comes from Pearl's soul and comes from what Pearl as a Jewish woman living in 1969 having been exposed to nothing else in her life. Yes, it's the biggest musical George Street has ever done but everything is coming from a very genuine place. You know were are Broadway bound and we want to make it a full experience for everyone. "One of the most exciting things about putting this very, very specific, intimate, feminist story on stage is how you make it a musical. Director Sheryl Kaller can't wait for the new musical to become a reality. That culture clash for that summer, because a lot of people don't realize was in-between bungalow colonies and these working-class Jewish communities, the culture clash plus the world of the Catskill bungalow colonies, which I had never seen portrayed in a film, just led me to want to write this screen play."Ī Walk on the Moon is the largest production in George Street’s history and promises to be like nothing the New Brunswick Arts Center audiences have ever seen. I was too young to be with them but that's where I felt like I belonged. But at the same time, I was seeing the hippies walking past the bungalow colony on their way to Woodstock and I wanted to be with them. They were kicked out of Woodstock Wallkill area and there was this excitement about the moon walk going on throughout the bungalow colony and I was one of the kids who was excited about it. You could feel change in the air because it was very early in July of '69, there were rumors that Woodstock was going to move to the Catskill Mountains. ![]() ![]() "That summer was probably my 12th or 13th summer up in the Catskills. She explains how the "The Summer of ’69" impacted her and why this mother-daughter coming of age story still resonates today. Gray says the story began as a love letter to the working-class Jewish bungalow colonies of her childhood. Sheryl Kaller (far left) and Pamela Gray join WBGO Journal host Doug Doyle to talk about the new musical "A Walk on the Moon" running through May 21 at George Street Playhouse ![]()
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