The Umbrella to Stage New Magical Musical, Tuck Everlasting

This December, The Umbrella Stage Company is proud to be the first professional to company to bring to local audiences the newest musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's classic children tale, Tuck Everlasting, which also inspired a 2002 Disney film.

Recently on Broadway, the show tells the story of 11-year-old Winnie Foster (played by Madi Shaer pictured below), who yearns for a adventure beyond her wrought iron fence in Tree Gap, New Hampshire in 1893. When she stumbles upon the Tuck family and their secret to everlasting youth, she faces the extraordinary choice of returning to her ordinary life or continue with the Tucks on their infinite journey.

"For decades American schoolchildren studied the original novel and it is still taught to 4th and 5th graders today," observes Elliot Norton Award-winning director Nancy Curran Willis. "Tuck Everlasting deals with some very adult concepts of time, loss, growing up, death, love, loyalty, and family. Yet, the musical takes the audience on a magical, mystical, memorable journey suitable for the entire family."

Tuck Everlasting was selected for the season, says Brian Boruta, The Umbrella Stage Co. Producing Artistic Director, to provide substantive "family entertainment…that's not exactly holiday-themed, but a little outside the box.”

Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and cosponsor of the production at The Umbrella, calls Babbitt's story "the equal of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web and perhaps even a couple of Emily Dickinson’s postcards from eternity."

The show runs The Umbrella Main Stage, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742, from Dec. 6-22. Performances are held Thursdays at 7:30, Fridays & Saturdays at 8PM, with Sunday and select Saturday matinees at 3PM. Tickets range from $19-$49, with discounts available for students, military families, and groups. For more details and show times, click here.