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Row
- Narrated by: Grace McLean, John McGinty, Kerstin Anderson, John Ellison Conlee, Nehal Joshi, Tamika Lawrence, Kathryn O'Rourke, Lance Roberts, Sean Stack, Sally Wilfert
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Drama & Plays
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Publisher's Summary
Tori (Grace McLean) aims to be the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic. As a child, she raised her younger brother Lamar (John McGinty), defending him against discrimination and neighborhood bullies. Now, with nothing but her body and a hand-built boat, she squares off with her own tormentor: the ocean. Inspired by A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure, this uplifting world premiere musical, directed by Tyne Rafaeli with a book by Daniel Goldstein and music and lyrics by Dawn Landes, interrogates and reveals the resilience, fear, and ambition inside one individual undeterred by the odds.
For over six decades, Williamstown Theatre Festival, recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and the Commonwealth Award for Achievement, has brought emerging and professional theatre artists together to create a thrilling summer festival of premiere work alongside fresh, new productions of the western canon, accompanying cultural events including COMMUNITY WORKS and Late-Night Cabarets, and readings and workshops of new plays. Under Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield, WTF launched the Andrew Martin-Weber New Play and Musical Commissioning Program, through which theatre artists, including Jocelyn Bioh, Nathan Alan Davis, Halley Feiffer, Justin Levine, Matthew Lopez, Jiehae Park, Benjamin Scheuer, and many others, create new work supported by a year-round play development program. WTF runs unmatched training programs for new generations of theatre talent, and artists and productions shaped at WTF fill theatres in New York, London, and around the country each season. Williamstown Theatre Festival’s productions of The Bridges of Madison County, The Elephant Man, Fool for Love, Living on Love, and The Visit enjoyed critically acclaimed runs on Broadway, with The Elephant Man and The Visit receiving Tony Award nominations for Best Revival of a Play and Best Revival of a Musical, respectively. WTF's world premiere productions of Cost of Living (winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Actually, Paradise Blue, and Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow played acclaimed Off-Broadway runs. In the abbreviated 2019-20 theatrical season, Williamstown Theatre Festival was represented or scheduled to be represented on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally by The Sound Inside and Grand Horizons, both of which received Tony Award nominations for Best Play, The Rose Tattoo, Seared, Selling Kabul, Unknown Soldier, and Lempicka. Visit us at www.wtfestival.org.
Williamstown Theatre Festival would like to thank 321 Theatrical Management, Telsey & Company and DKC/O&M.
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- Carol O.
- 04-10-21
Wonderful experience
I love the theater and I love audio books. This experience was fantastic. I hope Audible continues bringing theater to the listening experience.
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- Rita Thompson
- 04-15-21
Isolation
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- 04-27-21
I hated this
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- J. M.
- 05-09-21
I loved it.
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- Susan
- 04-29-21
A musical?
I wish I had paid closer attention that this was a play and a musical to boot. Not what I expected and fast forwarded through half of it.
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- WG Maverick
- 04-20-21
Exceptional!! Highly recommend!
One of the best, most engaging stories I have gotten from Audible. And the best Audible Original (which I tend not to like). The compelling life story of Tori Merton woven with remarkable music and sound effects had me captured from the first moment. I listened straight through to the end.
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- Mary A. MacDonald
- 04-19-21
A must listen
Cannot wait to see it performed at The Clark! Inspirational, authentic story. Well performed, and the interview provided afterward by Mandy Greenfield is worth the listen as well.
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- Heidi Dulay
- 04-18-21
Riveting!
The combination of the narrator’s voice stream with the voices of different characters and the quiet lapping of ocean waves in the background was mesmerizing!
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- Shauna
- 04-18-21
Really good
I was pleasantly surprised! I am not one for musicals but this was really entertaining.
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- Gretchen Harwood
- 04-18-21
Wow- Amazing!
I accidentally stumbled upon this, so knew nothing about it, and Wow! I loved everything about it- the story, the music, the singing, the voices.... incredibly well done! Very powerful... The concept is very innovative- I would love to see this as a movie one day!
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- Jonathan T
- 02-10-22
Fantastic
I thought this was superb. The performances, singing and music were all excellent. The interweaving of the characters around Tori's epic journey worked well for me. Anyway it got me through ten miles of running on the treadmill so it must have had a kick to it.