Publisher's Synopsis
This "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
was a New York Shakespeare Festival production. Swados composed the score adapted
the book and directed for the stage. Meryl Streep starred as "Alice" at New York's Public
Theatre.
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Later aired on PBS and titled Alice at the Palace this imaginative rendering of the Lewis
Carroll classic is performed concert-style on a bare stage the actors in modern rehearsal
clothes. Stylistically the music ranges from rock to country/western to calypso as the
outlandish characters of "Wonderland" are reinterpreted in this "story theatre"-type setting.
