The narrative revolves around the transformation of four despondent British women of different ages, backgrounds, and dispositions, who share a month’s lease on a castle in sunny Italy to escape the rain and gloom of post-war London and to remove themselves from the stress of their unfulfilling relationships (as sung in their melancholic refrain “Endless Rain”). Michael Perry (music and lyrics), retitled An Enchanted April, delivers the old-fashioned story in both dialogue and song, in a nostalgic production by Utah Lyric Opera (in association with Thunder Media Group) that evokes the historic style of an operetta (a genre that enjoyed its last hurrah in the 1920s). Now playing a limited engagement at Theatre Row, a new musical adaptation by Elizabeth Hansen (book and lyrics) and C. Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel The Enchanted April, set during the devastating aftermath of World War I and a severe epidemic of the influenza that ravaged England at the time, has been the source of several popular stage and screen versions of the past.
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