Theater: Baruch Performing Arts Center / 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10010
his new musical based on the Academy-award winning film makes its National Premiere Off Broadway this November! Professionally work shopped in Canada,Lies My Father Told Me is both a whimsical and moving coming-of-age story following three generations in an immigrant family on the Lower East Side during The Roaring 20s when US immigration pushed forward in its final great wave, and an assimilated country pushed back on immigration even harder.
November 24, 2013: The 1975 Canadian movie “Lies My Father Told Me” was a charmer. A coming-of-age story by Ted Allan, about his early-20th-century poverty-saturated Jewish childhood in Montreal, the film was an Oscar nominee even. And now it’s a musical.
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