The Black Suits

We just got back from a field trip down to see the workshop production of The Black Suits at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA.  The show, with an amazing score by fellow NYU-alum Joe Iconis and book by Joe and Robert Maddock, is truly, honestly sensational.  It follows four high-school-aged friends who have a garage band one summer as they face growing up and apart in a life with limited choices.  It was amazing to see a show with such amazing emotion and honesty about adolescence while we work on Pregnancy Pact.  It felt like a total kindred theatrical spirit at times (I should be so lucky) and was inspiring to those of us who made the journey down!

The cast is amazing - Jason Hite, Ben Platt, Harrison Chad, and Will Roland make up The Black Suits, with Sarah Cetrulo as the girlfriend and the always amazing Annie Golden as a rock and roll mentor.  Director John Simpkins and MD James Sampliner brought the show to such a fully realized form - it's hard to believe that it's a workshop!  The story is heart-breaking and heart-warming AND it has one of the most exciting and natural scores I've heard from a new musical in a long time.  I've been hearing about it for years and it basically surpassed ALL of the hype and talking up that it's gotten.

Lucky for you, The Black Suits and Pregnancy Pact BOTH have performances all next weekend.  Plus, Pittsfield is less than a two hour drive from Weston.  Which means that those of you in NYC should definitely make a full weekend of New England theater going out of it!

Congratulations to everyone involved!