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Charlie and Algernon

Shows · Charlie and Algernon

Based on Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon, intellectually disabled Charlie Gordon undergoes an experimental surgery that dramatically increases his intelligence, paralleling an earlier experiment on a mouse named Algernon. As Charlie's genius blossoms, he experiences love and self-awareness for the first time, but when Algernon begins to deteriorate, Charlie realizes his own brilliant mind will also fade.

Opened
1980
Performances
17
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Charles StrouseLyrics: David RogersBook: David Rogers

Productions1 on Broadway

1980 Helen Hayes Theatre Original. September 14, 1980 · Louis W. Scheeder 17 performances

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In the literature8 passages

Charlie and Algernon, 507 book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p625

CHARLIE AND ALGERNON, originally hearts ( in ¢ ar sds : London) as Flowers Sor Al non book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p180

CHICAGO dubbed Charlie and Algernon—was remounted that fall at the Kennedy Center’s larger Eisenhower Theatre and despite its obvious mediocrity brought in to Broadway. All that for universal jeers and a measly seventeen performances. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p184

the adult Charlie is mentally retarded and despite his temporarily soaring IQ we know he’ll revert to his childlike self, and so his affair with Alice was similarly off-putting and distasteful and seemed unethical if not illegal on her part. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p247

Charlie and Algernon, 299 book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p572

Strouse followed A Broadway Musical with Charlie and Algernon (Helen Hayes; Sept. 14, ’80; 17), based on the novel Flowers for Algernon, which had become the successful film Charly in 1968. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p136

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