Wellsford ditches Hoteo River for bore water
Watercare has identified a new groundwater source for Wellsford as part of a $1 billion plan to upgrade water and wastewater infrastructure for the northern parts of Auckland over the next 10 years.
Assuming Watercare can secure appropriate consents, the new source, off Wayby Valley Road, will replace the Hoteo River as Wellsford’s primary water source. Watercare spokesperson Maxine Clayton says groundwater has a number of advantages over river water. It is not subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as a river – particularly during a drought – and requires less treatment because it is a protected source.
Novelist-Turned-Librettist Jodi Picoult Talks About Collaboration and Hope Ahead of Breathe May 14
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Turning symptoms into songs, here comes COVID-19 the musical
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By Elisabeth Egan
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About halfway through
Breathe, a new musical created by bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult and veteran playwright Timothy Allen McDonald, a fed-up, locked-down father of three sums up the challenges of the pandemic in a two-word refrain: “It’s brutal!”
Adam, played by Colin Donnell, is lamenting the challenge of shoehorning virtual kindergarten alongside two demanding careers Donnell’s partner-in-exhaustion is his real-life wife, Patti Murin but he speaks for all of us who have been crowded and alone, enraged and bereft, at various points in the past year.
Covid, the Musical? Jodi Picoult Is Giving It a Try.
Working with a playwright, the best-selling author has turned the symptoms of illness into songwriting prompts for a new musical called “Breathe.”
Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald were inspired by Jonathan Larson’s “Rent” in trying to capture the impact of another virus on the stage.Credit.From left: Kieran Kesner for The New York Times; Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
By Elisabeth Egan
May 10, 2021
About halfway through “Breathe,” a new musical created by the best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult and the veteran playwright Timothy Allen McDonald, a fed-up, locked-down father of three sums up the challenges of the pandemic in a two-word refrain: “It’s brutal!”
Jenny Anderson
Creating a new musical can be difficult under the best of circumstances, but what does it take to make one in a year like the one we’ve had? For creators Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald, the path to creating
Breathe, a new musical premiering May 14 on Overture+, certainly came with its challenges but the end product might be all the more rewarding for overcoming them.
“When coronavirus hit, Tim and I were actually together at a wedding in Mexico,” Picoult says. “We were there with a group and all enjoying ourselves and everyone at our table contracted the virus except for me. This was the first week of March, and after Tim recuperated, we started talking about how the world how changed and how we could understand that. It seemed to me like musical theater was the right medium to begin with, in part because I hadn’t figured out how to do it in a novel yet.”
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