THE STORY OF MY LIFE to Have Orange County Premiere
The Story of My Life is a profoundly funny and deeply moving musical about lifelong best friends, Thomas and Alvin.by BWW News Desk
Chance Theater has announced that the Orange County premiere of Neil Bertram and Brian Hill s musical, The Story of My Life will be the first show in their 23rd Anniversary Season. The musical is directed by Matthew McCray (The Other Place), with music direction by Robyn Manion (Ragtime). The show will have scheduled virtual performances from April 30 - June 6, 2021.
This Drama Desk Award-nominated musical is a soaring tribute to the power of friendship and the people who change our lives forever. The Story of My Life is a profoundly funny and deeply moving musical about lifelong best friends, Thomas and Alvin. As time tests the bonds of friendship, best-selling author Thomas calls on the only resource he has - his stories of Alvin - to better understand the best friend that got away.
ed lavandera is live with the latest. reporter: good morning, kiran. this is what s left of the hillcrest baptist church here. preliminary reports from the national weather service say at one point the storm that passed through here, the tornado measured more than a mile and a half wide with winds at 60 miles per hour. it cut a devastating line where four people died, including three young girls. i don t know if they do anything now. reporter: we found matthew mccray. their house blown 40 feet off the foundation. his guitar is muddyed but it s days like these that inspire the mississippi blues.
we found matthew mccray and his wife, jo, on a back road, their house blown 40 feet off the foundation. his guitars muddies. it is days like this that inspired the mississippi blues. what was it like being in there when this happened? just that quick it sent woof and woof again and the roof was off. reporter: was it scary? i just started praying and asking the lord to save me. reporter: along this dirt road, the tornado killed it s three youngest victims, two sisters and a three-month-old baby girl. a 13-year-old and a 9-year-old were killed here. they were here with their parents. the force of the storm so powerful it disengreated their
terrain with massive trees. it is hard to see on the horizon that this storm was coming. many people didn t realize it until it was right upon them. i don t know reporter: we found matthew mccray and his wife on a back road on choctaw, mississippi. his guitar is muddied, but it s days like these that inspire the mississippi blues. reporter: what was it like being in there when this happened? that quick, whoosh, then whoosh again then the tops were gone. reporter: was it incredibly scary? i started praying, asking the lord to save me, save me. i told my husband and said, honey, i don t believe he s going to save us. reporter: along the dirt road, the tornado killed its three youngest victims, two
let me give you a peek of what we are working on. the train, there was no train. there was a bomb. a bomb is what it is being described as. it was dropped by a severe weather system. it left deep wounds across the southeast, mainly in mississippi where lives were lost, property damaged and help now is on the way. also, they are camping out in queens. they are not waiting on tickets to a mets game. hundreds of people, they are roughing it on the street to get their hands on job applications. that door opens in about 30 minutes. we ll be checking in there live. also, he is probably the only everest climber who has to stop and do some homework. we are checking in on 13-year-old kid here. we talked to him about a week ago. he is trying to make it to the top of the world. we seal where he is now. i watched movies before where they do the special effects and somebody is sucked back into a vacuum. i was in that vacuum. it is real. it is real, folks. all too real for people