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''Maggie Flynn'' is a musical with a book by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss (in collaboration with Morton DaCosta) and music and lyrics by Peretti, Creatore, and Weiss. Based on an idea by John Flaxman, it was inspired by a true story set in the New York Draft Riots of 1863. The title character, an Irish woman providing asylum for orphaned children of runaway slaves, is on the verge of marrying a Union Army colonel when her vagabond husband Phineas Flynn (who abandoned her to pursue a theatrical career and whom she had presumed was dead) returns to the scene. The cast of characters is a mélange of Confederate insurgents, prostitutes and drunks, bigoted socialites, circus performers and a passel of African American kids endangered by the local political situation. ==Production== The Broadway production, directed by DaCosta and choreographed by Brian Macdonald, opened on October 23, 1968 at the ANTA Playhouse, where it ran for 82 performances and 6 previews. The cast included Shirley Jones and husband Jack Cassidy, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and Robert Kaye as Col. John Farraday. Among the orphans were newcomers Irene Cara, Giancarlo Esposito, and Stephanie Mills. Critics found the basic situation of Jones and the children threatened by political unrest to be too similar to ''The Sound of Music'',〔Devine, Lawrence.("The Perils of 'Maggie' " )''New York Magazine'', October 14, 1968〕 albeit told in an unrelentingly darker manner, and efforts to equate the New York Draft Riots with contemporary protests against the Vietnam War heavy-handed and counter-productive. "It is worth noting that two of the first night critics came up with the same line, calling ''Maggie Flynn'' the best Broadway musical since ''Her First Roman'' — thereby honoring a desperately lousy mishmash that opened three days earlier." 〔Suskin, Steven.("On the Record: Maggie Flynn, and Solo Albums from Ann Hampton Callaway and Jill O'Hara" ) playbill.com, March 1, 2009〕 An original cast recording was released by RCA Victor and re-released on CD by DRG in 2009.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maggie Flynn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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