Kid Victory at Signature Theatre

Kid Victory

Signature Theatre
4200 Campbell Avenue Arlington

Two of theatre's top talents -- legendary composer John Kander (Chicago) and acclaimed playwright Greg Pierce (Slowgirl) -- bring this chilling new musical to the Signature Theatre stage. The highly anticipated show centers around 17-year-old Luke, who returns home after mysteriously vanishing one year previous. Profoundly changed, Luke and his parents struggle to adjust to life following his disappearance. Luke only finds solace with Emily, the quirky proprietor of an offbeat garden shop, as he grapples with a past undone and a coming of age that came too late to a boy who just wants to fade away. Kander and Pierce previously collaborated on the well-reviewed off-Broadway musical The Landing.

Thru - Mar 22, 2015

Price: $47 - $105

Show Type: Musical

Running Time: 1 hr,50mins no intermission

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Kid Victory Reviews

Average Rating based on 7 reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...But mostly the show probes its difficult territory in intriguing ways, particularly as Kander keeps pressing for musical routes into these characters’ big hearts and buzzing minds. Nothing is more impressive here than the way he embraces Pierce’s short-story tone and grapples with 21st-century discontents. You can’t wait to see what he’ll come up with next."

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- Nelson Pressley

DC Theater Arts - Recommended

Inside the roughly two-hour’s traffic of this world premiere, there is perhaps a superb ninety-minute musical, which despite the bizarre nature of the experience conveyed tells universal truths. Most of us were not kidnapped and kept away from home for a year, but many of us have discovered – some to our horror – that we were not the people our parents thought we were, and wanted us to be.

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- Tim Treanor

MetroWeekly - Recommended

"...There are some genuine moments of sparkle and finesse in Kander’s music, a fair amount of mood-lifting choreography by Christopher Windom, and designers Clint Ramos on set and David Weiner on lights add some depth to the show via the large, lit photographs of Kansas wheat fields that envelop the stage."

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- Doug Rule

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

"...Director Liesl Tommy navigates the emotional ups and downs of Pierce's book while remaining grounded in realism. On the other hand, choreographer Christopher Windom takes the show into surrealistic terrain, staging one number with dancers holding enormous marbles as they move and literally turning people on their heads in another."

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- Susan Berlin

MD Theatre Guide - Somewhat Recommended

"...Greg Pierce’s book has a very interesting idea but it needs more focus than what director Liesl Tommy has given it. The character of Luke’s girlfriend Suze (Laura Darrell) and Detective Marks (Bobby Smith) are only in a single scene apiece. I would have liked to have seen both of these characters throughout. In particular the detective because Luke’s story was a big TV event and it would have been interesting to see how the authorities handled the case rather than just one interrogation scene between Marks and Luke."

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- Elliot Lanes

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

This story begins where most stories end…with the protagonist’s homecoming. But as Luke wanders, bewildered, through the full-throated town he hears both the comforting chorus, praising God for his safe return, and the accusing verses, wondering why he didn’t do more to escape.

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- Tim Treanor

Magic Time - Recommended

"...Depending upon one’s curiosity, compassion, and/or concern about what happens to abducted and abused kids—or perhaps simply depending upon one’s taste or tolerance for musicals that tell dark stories—Kid Victory may or may not appeal. I myself was riveted and I cannot stop thinking about what I saw. Signature Theatre’s Kid Victory is one of those shows you can’t unsee…but you must see."

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- John Stoltenberg