Sycamore Trees
May 18 – Jun 20, 2010Composer Ricky Ian Gordon is the second recipient of the American Musical Voices Project Award to present a new work of musical theater on Signature’s stage. Sycamore Trees is the moving story of his family’s struggles and their reliance on each other through good and bad.
“When my father came home from World War II in 1945, my family lived in a crowded tenement in the Bronx, poor and with bed bugs. Then my parents got the idea to move to the suburbs where the dream of life flowering in a clean and spacious environment promised to be the answer.
It wasn’t.
This is the story of a family and what happened to them … and music is its heartbeat and inner life.” – Ricky Ian Gordon
Steppenwolf Theatre member and acclaimed Chicago director Tina Landau (Iphigenia 2.0, The Trojan Women) comes to the Washington area to direct this world premiere musical.
