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(Le) Poisson Rouge Asphalt Orchestra BAM Bang on a Can Bang on a Can All-Stars Bill Bragin Bill Million Brenda Sauter Broadway Brooklyn Bryce Dessner Christian Gibbs Colman Domingo Dave Weckerman David Lang Doveman Ed Seifert Fela! Free Georgia Hubley Glenn Mercer Heidi Rodewald Hoboken Ira Kaplan Jeff Tweedy Jennifer O'Connor Joanna Settle Joe's Pub John Baumgartner Julia Wolfe Lincoln Center Lincoln Center Out of Doors Manhattan MASS MoCA Maxwell's Michael Gordon Music Nels Cline New Amsterdam Records New CIty Nico Muhly North Adams Nyack Passing Strange Pat Sansone Piermont Rockland County Rockwood Music Hall Sahr Ngaujah Sam Amidon Sharon Van Etten Solid Sound Festival Speed the Plough Spike Lee St. Click HERE for information and tickets, which start at $45. The new show’s songs and music are just as good as those in “Hundred Days,” and its story is even more complex and interesting. I won’t spoil it by revealing how the story turns out, but suffice it to say that the story has plenty of tension and tragedy. So, I was pleased to see that they kept their joint biography out of the center of the frame of “The Lucky Ones.” Indeed, Shaun’s role is musician, backup vocalist, and narrator, rather than a character in the story. The rest of the 18-member cast, which is used to great effect by migrating between the theater’s choir loft in the rear to its compact stage down front, is a strong group across the board.Īs endearing as Abigail and Shaun’s love story was in “Hundred Days,” they’ve been there and done that. While Abigail is a central character in “The Lucky Ones,” another couple is at the heart of this story: outsider Emma, played by Adina Verson (of “Indecent”) and Abigail’s cousin, Kai, played by Damon Daunno (“Hadestown”). It’s presented by Ars Nova with Wendy vanden Heuvel‘s Piece By Piece Productions and the San Francisco-based Z Space. You could call it a prequel to “Hundred Days,” as it looks at Abigail’s family life, the one she alluded to in a dark way in that earlier show, in a New England hippie colony, complete with family dysfunction, infidelity, drugs, community schooling, and all the rest. It’s every bit as good as “Hundred Days,” and in some ways even better. The piece features music and lyrics by The Bengsons, who co-wrote the book with Sarah Gancher, choreography by Sonya Tayeh, and direction by Anne Kauffman. I braved the brutal weather reports Tuesday, to see the new production’s second performance. I was thrilled to see that “The Lucky Ones” was getting its world premiere in New York this month, and got the ticket-buying out of the way early. 
But because when I finally did see it, I found “Hundred Days” to be so enjoyable and endearing experience that I wasn’t about to wait too long to see The Bengsons’ next project. Embed from Getty ImagesĪbigail and Shaun Bengson in January 2017 I had passed up opportunities to see earlier versions at Joe’s Pub, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Series, and probably other venues. By then it was in what seemed like it umpteenth incarnation. I regretted waiting so late in the game - not until Black Friday last year at New York Theater Workshop - to see the Bengsons’ first musical, which centered on their quirky love-and-marriage story. It’s much more emotional, at least to me, than their previous musical, “Hundred Days.” The piece is charming and entertaining, but gripping and emotionally exhausting at the same time. It’s hard to imagine how anyone could tell such a gut-wrenching, personal story to audiences night after night without going over the edge, but Abigail Bengson - who performs with husband Shaun in The Bengsons- is doing just that in “The Lucky Ones,” now playing at the historic Connelly Theater in Manhattan’s East Village.
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