The Lerner & Loewe classic - reimagined

First premiering at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre this June, Ordway Performing Arts Center is mounting a brand-new and revamped production of Lerner & Loewe's Western musical, Paint Your Wagon. With a new book by Pulitzer nominee Jon Marans, this reworked production features new orchestrations of the hit numbers They Call the Wind Maria, I Talk to the Trees and I Was Born Under A Wand'rin Star by Tony Award nominee August Eriksmoen (Bright Star).

Starring Broadway actor Robert Cuccioli in the role of Ben Rumson and a host of other Great White Way stars (as well as St Paul local talent), the musical is set in a town of prospectors in 1849 and asks whether true love can survive against the nation's lust for gold. Famously adapted into a movie with Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, Paint Your Wagon was Lerner and Loewe's fifth collaboration.