Frank McCourt’s The Irish… And How They Got That Way Returns to the Kimmel Center, January 7 – February 28
DECEMBER 2, 2009
Tickets on Sale Now!
The popular, uplifting musical celebration of all things
Irish—The Irish…And How They Got That Way, will return to the Kimmel
Center beginning January 7 – February 28
at the Kimmel’s Innovation Studio. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and
playwright Frank McCourt, the stage musical is produced by Howard Perloff. The
official press opening will be Friday,
Jan. 15 at 8pm.
Tickets ranging in price from $35 - $47 are on sale now at
the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce Sts. (open daily 10am to 6pm),
by calling 215-731-3333, or online at www.kimmelcenter.org. Group discounts are available by calling
215-790-5883.
Performances are Thursday & Friday evenings at 8pm;
Saturdays at 5pm & 8pm; and Sunday matinees at 3pm.
The newly-revised show returns to the Kimmel Center
after a successful engagement in March 2009. The production originally opened
at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City
in 1997, and also had a successful run at Philadelphia’s
Walnut Street Theatre.
The Irish…And How They Got That Way tells the story of the
Irish experience both on the Emerald Isle and here in America. Those who are familiar with the works of
Frank McCourt will find his unique brand of irreverent humor throughout. It is a story told through the songs of Ireland, from such immortals as “Danny Boy,”
“The Rose of Tralee, and “Harrigan”—the works
of George M. Cohan including “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “You’re A Grand Ole
Flag” and “I’m A Yankee Doodle Dandy”—to music from modern-day Irish rockers
U2. The Irish… sheds new light on a
people who live, laugh and love with as much passion as possible.
Playwright and author Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised
in Limerick, Ireland. He spent 27 years teaching in the New York City public
school system before embarking on a writing career. After retiring from teaching, Frank and his
brother performed their two-man show, A
Couple of Blaguards, a musical review about their Irish youth. Frank’s childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, spent 117 weeks on the
New York Times bestseller list and was the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize
for Biography. Frank McCourt died at the
age of 78 on July 19, 2009.
He remains one of the most celebrated and beloved Irish-American authors of our
time.
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