EXCLUSIVE: In January it was announced that Emma Donoghue had developed a play (with music) of her bestseller Room and the critically acclaimed film that followed—and that the play would go to Broadway—had many New Yorkers asking questions (Londoners and Canadians had already seen the show).
Some of the answers may be covered in a new trailer and first look photo made available exclusively to Deadline.
How can a play (with music) translate such a difficult, poignant story of domestic violence, with its crushing claustrophobia and mental brutality, into a more welcoming theater district? The Music Men And Funny girls of the world.
With today’s exclusive release of the first trailer and key production graphics for Deadline , questioners can receive a few clues, like a reminder that there are huge amounts of inspiration, hope and love out there blowing in the air Room.
With Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren – looking so different from when we last saw her on Broadway, so convincingly transformed into the iconic Tina Turner – Room tells the harrowing but ultimately inspiring story of Ma (Warren), a kidnapped teenage girl locked in a purpose-built room in her captor’s garden for seven years. Their five-year-old son, Jack, has no idea of the outside world and, with the help of Mom’s games and vivid imagination, lives happily in Room where objects such as a carpet, lamp and TV are his only friends. But the time has come for Ma to escape and face her greatest challenge yet: the world beyond Rome.
In the new trailer, we see little of the room itself. Instead, we see Warren as Mom comforting her baby while a faint, haunting version of this ode to patience “She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain When She Comes” plays. The only view of the outside world we see is the sun shining through a skylight.
Room Previews begin April 3 at the James Earl Jones Theater, with an official opening night April 17. Tickets go on sale on Monday.
Check out the trailer above and the show’s new poster art below.
Source: Deadline
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