Jack Kerouac's
Maggie Cassidy
An American Musical
Book, Music & Lyrics by
Chris Jeffries
Based Upon the Novel by
Jack Kerouac
May 18, 19, 24 – 26,
May 31 - June 2 at 8pm
& May 20 at 2pm
107 W. 9th St.
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$18 General Admission
$15 Students/Seniors
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Jack Kerouac's
Maggie Cassidy
An American Musical
Author Chris Jeffries speaks with WFIU's George Walker on the genesis of this historic project
Bloomington Playwrights Project & Indiana University proudly present Maggie Cassidy (book, music and lyrics by Chris Jeffries, based on the novel by Jack Kerouac) a new musical this May as part of the BPP & IU New Musical Series.
Maggie Cassidy, a musical adaptation of Jack Kerouac's highly autobiographical novel of the same name and predecessor to On the Road, is starting right here in Bloomington. It tells the story of Kerouac's early years as a French-Canadian high school star athlete and would-be writer on whom everyone in town pins their hopes. He has everything, except someone who understands his passion for writing… until he meets and falls in love with the Irish girl from the other side of the tracks, Maggie Cassidy. His love for her creates a new dream that threatens to derail his plans to leave his hometown of Lowell behind.
Maggie Cassidy presents a new and unfamiliar look at Jack Kerouac, before he wrote the American classic On the Road and became the father of the Beat Generation. The forces that shaped him—tensions surrounding his religion, his cultural economic background, and an America struggling to find itself again after the fall of the Great Depression—are all present and at play. Maggie Cassidy is the powerful story of a great American author coming of age.
