May 15th, 2013 
Sol Children Theatre presents
Nevermore a musical
June 14 – 16
Fri. & Sat. 7pm; Sat. & Sun. 2pm
3333 N. Federal Highway
Boca Raton, FL 33431
561-447-8829 solchildtroupe@aol.com
Take a dark, mysterious, musical journey into the heart and soul of Edgar Allan Poe, America’s first truly visionary poet. This story of love, personal demons and self-discovery delves into the mind of Poe with disturbing yet relatable charm. Poe’s poetry is transformed into soaring musical numbers creating a timeline that lures the audience into his world.
Tickets $12 & $8 juniors and can be purchased by visiting website: www.solchildren.org
Florida Premiere of Semi-biographical Musical based on the Life of Edgar Allan Poe, Soon to be Unveiled
Cue the spooky music! Sol Children Theatre will shortly be producing “Nevermore,” a one-act musical based on the life and work of literary great, Edgar Allan Poe. The show is based on Poe’s short stories and poetry; the plot that drives the suspense derives from Poe’s shifting obsession with the women in his life. With hauntingly beautiful melodies, “Nevermore” breathes new life into Poe’s work and explores a twisted true-life tale that is as bizarre as his classic stories of the macabre.
The genesis of “Nevermore” was composer Matt Conner’s purchase of a $5 anthology of Poe’s works. Conner was initially inspired by a little-known poem, “Dreams,” in the very back of the book. He recounts, “The poetry, filled with meter, rhythm, and percussion drove me to unlock the mysterious, obsessive life of a soon-to-be lyricist already one hundred and fifty years deceased. Even Poe himself, panned for his ‘musicality’ as a writer, felt that true beauty was the combination of music and poetry.”
Matt Conner is a composer and actor in the Washington, D.C. area. He has recently been commissioned by Signature Theatre to create a new work based on the Underground Railroad. “Nevermore” originated with Signature Theater in 2006; since then, the show has been performed by seventeen theatre companies in the United States, Canada, and England. From Urban Arts Productions in Victoria to Webster University’s Conservatory of Theater Arts in St. Louis to the Kensington Arts Theatre in the U.K., “Nevermore” has been welcomed and Matt Conner lauded as a bright new voice in musical theater. The original production at Signature garnered praise from The Washington Post, whose staff writer Peter Marks described it as an “entrancing new musical” and “a dreamscape of a musical set in a writer’s fugue state”:
“The Poe of Nevermore is himself a haunted object. What the creative team of Conner, [director] Schaeffer, and book writer Grace Barnes conceive is a free-floating, psychological postmortem of the man as revealed through his powerfully sensual relationships with words and, just as vitally, with women.”
The upcoming Florida production will be produced by Sol Children Theatre, the dream child of veteran director Rosalie Grant. Grant’s desire to create a highly professional children’s theater with sustainable and supportive training for young people led her to found Sol Children Theater, a non-profit theater organization that thrives on service to its community. The “troupe,” veterans of previous productions at Sol, are teen actors committed to meeting regularly to continue training outside of the rehearsal process and performing in support of other not-for-profit institutions. The Sol Troupe regularly performs at the South Florida Renaissance Fair and Gumbo Limbo’s annual Sea Turtle Day. The Troupe was recently seen at the Delray Public Library’s Centennial Community Day Celebration and the Relay for Life at Quiet Waters Park.
Producing theater that adults as well as children can enjoy, Sol looks forward to its next production, “Nevermore,” which will be performed June 14th through 16th, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Sol Children Theater Troupe, 3333 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton.
561-447-8829; www.solchildren.org
Rosalie Grant, artistic director
SOL CHILDREN THEATRE
561-447-8829
solchildtroupe@aol.com
facebook.com/SolChildrenTheatreTroupe
http://www.youtube.com/user/SolChildren
Sol Children Theatre presents
Nevermore a musical
June 14 – 16
Fri. & Sat. 7pm; Sat. & Sun. 2pm
3333 N. Federal Highway
Boca Raton, FL 33431
561-447-8829 solchildtroupe@aol.com
Take a dark, mysterious, musical journey into the heart and soul of Edgar Allan Poe, America’s first truly visionary poet. This story of love, personal demons and self-discovery delves into the mind of Poe with disturbing yet relatable charm. Poe’s poetry is transformed into soaring musical numbers creating a timeline that lures the audience into his world.
Tickets $12 & $8 juniors and can be purchased by visiting website: www.solchildren.org
Florida Premiere of Semi-biographical Musical based on the Life of Edgar Allan Poe, Soon to be Unveiled
Cue the spooky music! Sol Children Theatre will shortly be producing “Nevermore,” a one-act musical based on the life and work of literary great, Edgar Allan Poe. The show is based on Poe’s short stories and poetry; the plot that drives the suspense derives from Poe’s shifting obsession with the women in his life. With hauntingly beautiful melodies, “Nevermore” breathes new life into Poe’s work and explores a twisted true-life tale that is as bizarre as his classic stories of the macabre.
The genesis of “Nevermore” was composer Matt Conner’s purchase of a $5 anthology of Poe’s works. Conner was initially inspired by a little-known poem, “Dreams,” in the very back of the book. He recounts, “The poetry, filled with meter, rhythm, and percussion drove me to unlock the mysterious, obsessive life of a soon-to-be lyricist already one hundred and fifty years deceased. Even Poe himself, panned for his ‘musicality’ as a writer, felt that true beauty was the combination of music and poetry.”
Matt Conner is a composer and actor in the Washington, D.C. area. He has recently been commissioned by Signature Theatre to create a new work based on the Underground Railroad. “Nevermore” originated with Signature Theater in 2006; since then, the show has been performed by seventeen theatre companies in the United States, Canada, and England. From Urban Arts Productions in Victoria to Webster University’s Conservatory of Theater Arts in St. Louis to the Kensington Arts Theatre in the U.K., “Nevermore” has been welcomed and Matt Conner lauded as a bright new voice in musical theater. The original production at Signature garnered praise from The Washington Post, whose staff writer Peter Marks described it as an “entrancing new musical” and “a dreamscape of a musical set in a writer’s fugue state”:
“The Poe of Nevermore is himself a haunted object. What the creative team of Conner, [director] Schaeffer, and book writer Grace Barnes conceive is a free-floating, psychological postmortem of the man as revealed through his powerfully sensual relationships with words and, just as vitally, with women.”
The upcoming Florida production will be produced by Sol Children Theatre, the dream child of veteran director Rosalie Grant. Grant’s desire to create a highly professional children’s theater with sustainable and supportive training for young people led her to found Sol Children Theater, a non-profit theater organization that thrives on service to its community. The “troupe,” veterans of previous productions at Sol, are teen actors committed to meeting regularly to continue training outside of the rehearsal process and performing in support of other not-for-profit institutions. The Sol Troupe regularly performs at the South Florida Renaissance Fair and Gumbo Limbo’s annual Sea Turtle Day. The Troupe was recently seen at the Delray Public Library’s Centennial Community Day Celebration and the Relay for Life at Quiet Waters Park.
Producing theater that adults as well as children can enjoy, Sol looks forward to its next production, “Nevermore,” which will be performed June 14th through 16th, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Sol Children Theater Troupe, 3333 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton.
561-447-8829; www.solchildren.org
