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A Doll's Life

Shows · A Doll's Life

Picking up where Ibsen's A Doll's House ends, Nora Helmer walks out on her husband and children to find independence in nineteenth-century Norway. She struggles through a series of jobs and relationships, discovering that freedom comes with its own harsh challenges, before ultimately finding her own voice as an advocate for women's rights.

Opened
1982
Performances
5
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Larry GrossmanLyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph GreenBook: Betty Comden & Adolph Green

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available

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In the literature4 passages

Prince continued to work through Broadway channels. But failing on Broadway again with two conceptually based pieces (A Doll's Life, 1982; Grind, 1985), he sought and found success by developing musicals outside the United States-notably in London (following the earlier success of Evita in 1978 with Phantom of the Oper… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p583

One of Prince’s unsuccessful shows of the 1980s was A Doll's Life, a musical sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll's House. While it proved problematic, it contained many expectedly stunning stage pictures, an often beautiful score by Larry Grossman, and a valiant performance by the inexhaustible Betsy Joslyn (here with Geor… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p335

Prince stumbled by directing Merrily We Roll Along, A Doll's Life, Grind, and Roza. Critics and theatre columnists began to write about Prince's failures as if they were signs of terminal illness. book:harold-prince-a-director-s-journey-carol-ilson#p6

The successful book and lyric writing team would one day write the musicals On the Twentieth Century and A Doll's Life, with Prince as director. book:harold-prince-a-director-s-journey-carol-ilson#p15

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