Days of Wine & Roses

New York, the 1950s. Joe Clay, a charismatic PR man with a drink always in hand, meets Kirsten Arnesen, a whip-smart secretary who's never touched one. A Brandy Alexander later, a romance begins — intoxicating in every sense. As Joe and Kirsten marry and raise their daughter, Lila, the drinking they share curdles from glamour into a mutual, devastating dependency, and each must decide what they're willing to lose to be saved.

Based on JP Miller's celebrated teleplay and the Blake Edwards film, Days of Wine and Roses reunited The Light in the Piazza's Adam Guettel and Kelli O'Hara in an intimate, jazz-inflected chamber musical of rare emotional force — "a jazzy, aching new musical with wells of compassion" (The New York Times).

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Developed over more than a decade by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas

World premiere Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company (May–July 2023)

Broadway premiere at Studio 54, opening January 28, 2024, produced by Kevin McCollum, Mark Cortale, and Sing Out, Louise! Productions

Three 2024 Tony Award nominations: Best Original Score (Adam Guettel), Best Leading Actress (Kelli O'Hara), and Best Leading Actor (Brian d'Arcy James); Drama Desk Award wins for both stars; Outer Critics Circle Award for Kelli O'Hara

Original cast recording on Nonesuch Records

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