This article originally appeared on playbill.com.
Perfect Picture, a new musical about the life of American painter and illustrator Normal Rockwell, will premiere July 20–21 in Manchester, Vermont. Featuring book and lyrics by Emmy Award winner Eileen Bluestone Sherman and music by Gail C. Bluestone.
Tony Award nominee Randy Skinner (42nd Street, Dames at Sea) will direct and choreograph the production that will star Tony Award winner Lillias White (The Life), Olivier nominee Scarlett Strallen (Mary Poppins), Sara Esty (An American in Paris), Danny Gardner (Dames at Sea), and Jeremy Benton (Cagney). Timothy Graphenreed will music direct.
Perfect Picture centers on Rockwell’s series of four oil paintings that captured Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.
Perfect Picture, a new musical about the life of American painter and illustrator Normal Rockwell, will premiere July 20–21 in Manchester, Vermont. Featuring book and lyrics by Emmy Award winner Eileen Bluestone Sherman and music by Gail C. Bluestone.
Tony Award nominee Randy Skinner (42nd Street, Dames at Sea) will direct and choreograph the production that will star Tony Award winner Lillias White (The Life), Olivier nominee Scarlett Strallen (Mary Poppins), Sara Esty (An American in Paris), Danny Gardner (Dames at Sea), and Jeremy Benton (Cagney).
Perfect Picture centers on Rockwell’s 1943 Four Freedoms oil paintings that captured Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. The musical is presented as part of the inaugural 4 Freedoms Festival.
The musical is produced by Joshua Sherman Productions and The Mill, a not for profit production facility and center for artist collaboration in Arlington, Vermont.
For further information, visit TheMillVT.com/4FreedomsFestival.