New Jersey Stage Issue 58 | Page 54

Closing the 2019-20 season in the Elizabeth Ross Johnson The- ater is A Walk on the Moon, a new musical with a book by Pamela Gray and music & lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman, based on the critically acclaimed motion pic- ture of the same title by Pamela Gray. Longing for more than her life as a mother and housewife, and sensing that change and hu- man possibilities are in the air, Pearl Kantrowitz begins an affair NJ STAGE - ISSUE 58 with a somewhat lost, free-spirited traveling salesman while summer- ing with her family in the Catskills. As the Woodstock music festival comes to life nearby, their whirl- wind romance, set in the sum- mer of 1969—when mankind first stepped on the moon—brings au- diences on a musical journey set against the backdrop of an iconic moment in American history. Sheryl Kaller directs A Walk On the Moon, with choreography by INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 54