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“I don’t necessarily get nervous
from doing the show but when I
come out at the end of the show
it’s like, ‘oh right, this is real’. It
makes it a little more real and
overwhelming in a good way,”
added Rakos.
In the past decade, several musi-
cals which have made their debut
or early runs at Paper Mill Play-
house have gone on to Broadway
or national tours. Recent shows
to go on to Broadway include The
Bodyguard, the musical; A Bronx
Tale, The Bandstand, Hunchback
of Notre Damce, Ever After, and
Honeymoon In Vegas. Meanwhile
Happy Days, the Musical; Little
House on the Prairie; and a 25th
anniversary production of Les Mi-
sérables went from Millburn to
a national tour. Paper Mill Play-
house was rewarded for these
successes with the 2016 Regional
Theatre Tony Award.
Chasing Rainbows is a poignant
coming-of-age tale about “the
little girl with the big voice,” who
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“BODY OF AN AMERICAN” by Dan O’Brien
NJ Premiere! “If you do this, I will own you forever,” words that haunted Canadian
photojournalist Paul Watson. A single, stark photograph-of the body of an Ameri-
can soldier dragged from the wreckage of a Blackhawk helicopter through the
10/17 - 11/3
streets of Mogadishu-reshaped the course of global events and won war photog-
rapher Paul Watson the Pulitzer Prize. Yet, he is haunted by that shutter click.”
“HAMLET” -- The searing tragedy of young person, tor-
mented by his father’s death and confronting each of us
with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world.
“BUNNIES” -- A World Premiere! In 1973, at the New York
Playboy Club, five Playboy Bunnies find themselves
uplifted by the rise of feminism, haunted by the Good Bar
murder and conflicted about their jobs as sex symbols,
“HAMLET” 2/6 - 2/23 while they bond in humor and compassion over the course
by William Shakespeare of one evening.
“BUNNIES” 4/9 — 4 26
by Joanne Hoersch