Flying Over Sunset
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Previews Began: November 11, 2021
Opening Night: December 13, 2021
Closing Night: January 16, 2022
Music: Tom Kitt
Lyrics: Michael Korie
Book: James Lapine
In the 1950’s, writer Aldous Huxley, playwright, diplomat, and congresswoman, Clare Booth Luce, and film legend Cary Grant meet at a crossroads in their lives take LSD and confront the mysteries of their lives and their world.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
The Music Plays On…………………………………Company
Bella Donna Di Agonia…………..Aldous Huxley, Judith,
Handmaiden
Wondrous………………………………………..Aldous Huxley
Bella Donna Di Agonia (Reprise)………..Aldous Huxley
I Have It All…………………………………………..Cary Grant
Funny Money……….Archie Leach, Cary Grant, Father
A Sapphire Dragonfly…………………Clare Boothe Luce,
Ann, Austin
Someone…………………………………….Clare Boothe Luce
Flying Over Sunset…………………….Clare Boothe Luce,
Gerald Heard, Ann,
Austin
Flying Over Sunset (Reprise)……..Clare Boothe Luce,
Aldous Huxley,
Gerald Heard,
Cary Grant,
Company
ACT TWO
Om……………………..Gerald Heard, Clare Boothe Luce,
Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant
Huxley Knows…………Clare Boothe Luce, Cary Grant,
Aldous Huxley
My Mother and I…….Clare Boothe Luce, Cary Grant,
Gerald Heard, Archie Leach,
Father, Ann, Austin
The Music Plays On……Aldous Huxley, Maria Huxley
I Like to Lead…………………………….Sophia, Cary Grant
Rocket Ship…………………………………………..Cary Grant
An Interesting Place…………………..Clare Boothe Luce,
Ann, Austin
If Only I’d Known…….Clare Boothe Luce, Austin, Ann
How?…………………………………………Clare Boothe Luce
Three Englishmen………….Cary Grant, Gerald Heard,
Aldous Huxley
The Melancholy Hour…….Maria Huxley, Ann, Austin,
Archie Leach, Father,
Rosalia
The 23rd Ingredient…………………..Clare Boothe Luce,
Cary Grant,
Aldous Huxley,
Gerald Heard
Bella Donna Di Agonia (Reprise)……………………Judith,
Handmaiden
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Carmen Cusack Clare Boothe Luce
Harry Hadden-Paton Aldous Huxley
Tony Yazbeck Cary Grant
Kanisha Marie Feliciano Ann
Judith
Nehal Joshi Dr. Harris
Father
Emily Pynenburg Rosalia
Sophia
Michele Ragusa Austin
Handmaiden
Robert Sella Gerald Heard
Laura Shoop Maria Huxley
Atticus Ware Archie Leach
Understudies: Aria Braswell (Maria Huxley, Ann/Judith, Rosalia/Sophia), William Colin (Archie Leach), Danny Gardner (Cary Grant), Kate Marilley (Maria Huxley, Ann/Judith, Austin/Handmaiden, Clare Boothe Luce), Tony Roach (Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, Dr. Harris/Father), Michael Winther (Gerald Heard, Dr. Harris/Father)