The Highest Yellow
Oct 26 – Dec 12, 2004Signature presents this highly anticipated premiere, an exciting collaboration between five-time Tony-nominated composer/lyricist LaChiusa (First Lady Suite, The Wild Party) and multiple Helen Hayes Award-winners Strand (Lovers & Executioners, The Diaries) and Schaeffer. In December 1888, a young French intern in Arles admitted a patient suffering from delirium and a self-inflicted knife wound. Dr. Felix Rey was convinced he could cure this unusual patient, a Dutch painter named Vincent van Gogh, of his "nervous condition." Set to an intensely beautiful score, this is the story of a provincial doctor's discovery of art and prostitution, and his unexpected encounter with madness versus genius, love versus obsessions, and what we ultimately give up in order to hold on to what we find most precious.