Kaleidoscope

Music and Lyrics by Matt Conner
Book and Lyrics by Stephen Gregory Smith
Follow the touching journey of a Broadway star as she attempts to create a one-woman show about her life on the stage while Alzheimer’s disease begins to steal away her most precious memories.
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Kaleidoscope is the poignant story of a legendary Broadway performer’s comeback tour of her one-woman show revealing her star-studded life in the theatre. As the tour moves on, her memory of these stories starts to elude her. She is aided by her daughters ,who serve as her stage manager and director. 

Her daughters also begin to realize that her memory is fading and try to help her keep the memories alive in order to find a way to communicate with their mother on her journey before it is too late.  They do this by asking her to tell and act out her fascinating story in different ways.

Evelyn offers her sometimes hilarious “Kaleidoscope” of memories and impressions for as long as her memory holds up. Her daughters’ loving attentions keep Evelyn going until the anger and depression begins to wear all of them down, but still the girls keep things moving along with almost unfailingly good humor.
Two Acts
2 hours
PG-13
 Cast/Characters
4 Female
Evelyn Thorne
Broadway actress ending a long and illustrious career in the theater. 
Director
Evelyn Throne's daughter and Director.
Stage Manager
Evelyn's Stage Manager is also one of her daughters.
Child
Evelyn's youngest child accompanies her Mother and sisters on the road.

REVIEWS

"Conner’s music has a romantic strain limned with melancholy; waltzes surge and evolve..... The show’s delicacy, in the score and in Lacey’s perceptive performance, is an asset." 

​-The Washington Post
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"Poignant and real, with hints of raw laughter and joy where least expected."
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-DC Metro Theater Arts
"Take time to see this new musical.  You owe it to yourself to make Kaleidoscope a part of your journey."

-Maryland Theater Guide

"Kaleidoscope wins on all counts!"

-DC Theater Scene