Methuen Educator to Music Direct Ordinary Days: A Modern Musical

The Opposite of People, a new theater company in the greater Boston area, presents Ordinary Days: A Modern Musical, opening this week at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown.

One of musical theatre’s most exciting new composers, Adam Gwon, creates a score of vibrant and memorable songs, capturing with stinging clarity that uneasy moment in youth when doubts begin to cloud hopes for a future of unlimited possibility, and the connections that, knowingly or not, help you find your way. Ordinary Days is a refreshingly honest and funny musical that tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love, a cab, and a lost notebook.

At the helm of the production, providing musical direction is Methuen resident and music educator, Samantha Prindiville.

“I was drawn to the show after I heard Audra McDonald sing ’I’ll Be Here’, “ says Prindiville, “The song touched me in a way that not a lot of other songs have done before and I wanted to find out more about the show, so I listened and fell in love with the songs, the story and the relationships between the characters.”

Why come see the show? Take it from Prindiville who enthuses, “The caliber of the cast, the quality of the production team and the fact that at some point in our lives, everyone was able to relate to a character (or two or three or four) make this show worth seeing!”

Throughout the show, the character Warren, hands out flyers to passersby imprinted with inspirational messages. These messages, though occasionally kitschy, speak to the characters as they go through their own personal ordeals . In the spirit of Warren, Prindiville shared a message that spoke to her from the show, from the song, “Beautiful”.

”The color of feeling that life is okay.
The color of an ordinary day.”

Prindiville is normally behind the scenes but her life’s direction has been shaped by the prized role of Maria in West Side Story, which she played in high school. “It absolutely left an irreversible mark in my heart,” she says.

Prindiville is a music teacher but loves to cook and bake, shop for antiques, and compose choral music in her spare time.

Ordinary Days runs July 30 - August 1 at 8pm and August 1 - 2 at 2pm at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA.

Tickets are available for all performances through Brown Paper Tickets: http://theoppositeofpeople.brownpapertickets.com or on The Opposite of People’s website: http://theoppositeofpeople.org

The Opposite of People (TOP) is a newly established theater company that is dedicated to bringing accessible, unconventional theater and little known shows to the Boston-area community.