With the new musical 'New York, New York,' director-choreographer Susan Stroman pays tribute to the city's resilient dreamers
‘There’s a line in the show where we say New York can break you, but it can save you, too,’ Stroman says.The pandemic hit Susan Stroman hard. The five-time Tony award-winning director and choreographer got seriously ill with Covid-19 days after New York’s theaters shut down in 2020. She then spent 70 days alone in her Manhattan apartment, too sick and then too afraid to leave.
She kept sane by continuing to collaborate, over Zoom, with composer John Kander, playwright David Thompson, lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and others on “New York, New York,” a new musical about the city’s grit and gloriousness. “Somehow the pandemic fueled us to work harder,” Ms. Stroman, 68, says. Because the show takes place in 1946, when New Yorkers were feeling newly hopeful after years of war, the timing felt profound.
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