From Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin and Back, the musical play Passing Strange is the story of a young black bohemian, who abandons his bourgeois roots to journey to Europe searching for ‘the real’. Discovering a world of sex, drugs, rock and roll and art revolutionaries, our rebel-hero explores love, identity and the meaning of home.
Musical Director – Heidi Rodewald
Musical Supervisor – Jon Spurney
Movement Coordinator – Karole Armitage
Scenic Design by David Korins
Costume Design by Elizabeth Hope Clancy
Lighting Design by Kevin Adams
Sound Design by Tony Smolenski IV
“Passing Strange introduces an EXCITING NEW VOICE to contemporary musical theater. PART CONCERT, PART book MUSICAL with DRIVING ROCK MUSIC and a tart satiric tone – Passing Strange DEFIES generic categories. It dares in its playful way to honor those big questions that have set adolescent souls yearning for centuries. How to discover and be true to your convictions, how to live a meaningful life, and still pay the bills, how to find the understanding you need with out throwing away the love you’re offered.”
–Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
Click on the player below to watch the band Stew perform.
Video clip provided by www.ted.com. Passing Strange is a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Click here to visit their website.
Bought this on iTunes after seeing the Tony performance. Been loving every song ever since. Hope there's plans to tour (or at least a west coast production). MUCH love to Stew and TNP. Thanks for making musicals cool again ;)
I used to watch Stew & TNP play in a little hole in the wall in Mesa, AZ. They were so wonderful and always way to big for the room. Now they are touching this massive audience, and they are still too big for the room.
Saw it last night -- completely fantastic! Very moving and thought-provoking - your Tony was well-deserved (and the show actually deserved more than 1 Tony Award!)!!
Congrats on the Tony! As a Southern Californian, I've been flowing Stew and TNP's career since I first saw the band perform at Java Joe's in San Diego waaaay back in 1997! I am so happy for Stew, Heidi, and all of the cast! Hope it gets a West Coast run!
CONGRATS ON THA TONY! DID YA GET THOSE M&M'S OUT UR POCKET?? LUV THA SHOW. WUZ CRYIN LIKE A BAYBEE DURING DAT LAST SONG. THEN CALLED MY MOM. PHENOMENAL SHOW!
Cast of passing strange, thank you so much for your incredible performance at the tony's and in NYC, my dad and I saw it together and it really brought us closer together as well as impacting him in a very deep way, thanks again so much for your inspiring performance it really made a difference in my life
