Larson Legacy Concert: Adelphi presents the future of Musical Theater

The Island Now

Since 2015, Adelphi University has given creators an opportunity to showcase their work to new audiences through the Larson Legacy Concert Series.

On Sunday, Sept. 23, Jonathan Larson Grant winner Jay Adana will present pieces from her new musical The Loophole in the Olmsted Theatre at the Adelphi Performing Arts Center, One South Ave, Garden City, New York.

“The Loophole,” book by Zeniba Britt with music and lyrics by Adana, is a musical about brilliant biracial scientist Polly Danfield living in her white father’s house in Atlanta during the last year of the Civil War.

She has to ultimately choose between her family and her life’s work, or fight for love and freedom.

Adana is a singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn. She was the lyricist for The Woodsman, directed and conceived by James Ortiz and Strangemen and Co. She also contributed music and lyrics to Jeff Augustin’s The Last Tiger in Haiti. She was a member of the second cohort of #BARS at the Public Theater where she first met and collaborated with writing partner Zeniba Britt on an adaptation of Beloved by Toni Morrison.

The grants, which honors the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT, 1982 Adelphi graduate Jonathan Larson, are awarded annually to musical theater creators with the potential to create work that shapes contemporary culture.

The concert begins at 3 p.m. in Adelphi’s Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $25 with discounts available for seniors, alumni and students. See more about The Larson Legacy Concert Series: Jay Adana – and purchase tickets online.

 

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