Drift

Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy Through Sept. 27 A concept album is one thing; a musical theater work is another. Composer Jeremy Schonfeld's courageous stage work, Drift, is currently caught somewhere between the two. The Sept. 12 "world premiere" at Barton College in Wilson, before its opening this week... Read More

Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy
Through Sept. 27

A concept album is one thing; a musical theater work is another. Composer Jeremy Schonfeld's courageous stage work, Drift, is currently caught somewhere between the two. The Sept. 12 "world premiere" at Barton College in Wilson, before its opening this week in Raleigh, came eight years after the original CD was released—and three years after a 2006 world premiere at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

So Drift's a work in development—which fits the strengths of the score and production I witnessed in Wilson. What's already here is likely to impress Raleigh audiences when it opens here this week. Still, with that said, it's clear that further development lies ahead. See Less