DADDY LONG LEGS

April 18 & April 19 -- After a sold-out performance at Beacon Bonfire, this special 90-minute concert of the family-friendly 2-person musical DADDY LONG LEGS is back at the Howland.

Starring real-life married performers Erin Mendez Stapleton and Andrew Oppmann, directed and music directed by Broadway in Beacon’s Will Reynolds (who played the title role in the show Off-Broadway).

Based on the classic novel, which inspired the 1955 movie starring Fred Astaire, Daddy Long Legs is a beloved tale in the spirit of Jane Austen, The Brontë Sisters, and “Downton Abbey.” Daddy Long Legs features music and lyrics by Tony Award-nominated composer/lyricist, Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre), and Tony-winning librettist/director, John Caird (Les Misérables), and is a “rags-to-riches” tale of newfound love.

Jerusha Abbott is the “Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home” until a mysterious benefactor decides to send her to college to be educated as a writer. Required to write him a letter once a month, she is never to know the benefactor’s identity – so she invents one for him: Daddy Long Legs. 

Through her correspondence with Daddy Long Legs and her growing intimacy with Jervis, Jerusha’s letters chronicle her emergence as a delightfully independent “New American Woman.” Yet, there is one startling fact that Jerusha has yet to uncover – a fact that will change her life forever. 
Presented through special permission from the authors.
Come fall in love with DADDY LONG LEGS for the first time, or all over again.
This event is sponsored by Beacon Creamery and the Solstad House.