Stage and Studio on 05/28/13

Portland Center Stage and an award-winning team of Broadway veterans  are creating a world premiere musical based on the film ‘Somewhere in Time’- a time travel fantasy that starred the late Christopher Reeve. Dmae Roberts talks with Ken Davenport who first fell in love with the movie and aimed to create a new book for the original musical play.

Davenport lets us in on the process of getting the rights, getting backers, funding and writing & collaborating with teams of artists to stage this. Not unlike the film process, this took him 10 years to create. A must-listen for anyone who has ever wanted to create a Broadway-bound musical from scratch.

Also in this episode, we have Jo Addie president of  INSITE (International Network of Somewhere In Time Enthusiasts). The fan club has just as many male and female members and hold a yearly event in costume at  Mackinac Island, the location of the film .  Read about the fan club and president, Jo Addie who was an actress in the movie.

More about the story:

Somewhere in Time tells the romantic story about a young playwright named Richard Collier. After the opening night of his play,  an old woman mystifies him by telling him to "come back to me."  This chance encounter haunts him and years later, he goes to a hotel that he visited in his youth.  The playwright soon finds himself immersed in the past of the old woman and manages to meet her younger version across time where he falls in love with her.