“The musical’s main character is based a little on my brother, a bigger-than-life personality in the theater,” said Short North Stage co-founder Rick Gore.
Eager to resume his Broadway career by the mid-1980s, Christopher began writing songs for a new musical about love and art, initially conceived as a stage version of the 1945 film “Flying to Los Angeles often to visit his ailing brother, Rick would listen as Christopher played eight songs he’d written on a synthesizer.
Decades of development encompassed research, multiple rewrites and staged readings in Florida, New York and Columbus. “But like many musicals, the second act was the problem... How its story is resolved makes a very positive statement in 2022 about acceptance, tolerance and non-traditional families,” Licata said., performing a double role he’s done since a 2020 Zoom reading, is excited by the musical’s evolution.
Clemens plays Peter, brother to Jonathan, a successful musical-writer who’s brought together performers Peter, Peter’s wife Carol, Jonathan’s ex-wife Andrea and ex-lover Vulkan to rehearse “Country of Joy” in Cleveland. Frost plays aspiring actress Jessie, Peter’s 18-year-old daughter, hired as an intern on the Cleveland production.
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