Love Life

Tour synopsis, cast & creatives

In 1948 - the year of Love Life's Broadway premiere - husband and wife Sam and Susan Cooper try to recall a time when their marriage was happy. They reckon it was in 1790... The show then follows the ups and downs of the Coopers' family life through 150 turbulent years of American history - during which they do not age - to paint the portrait of a marriage and of a nation. Kurt Weill collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (of My Fair Lady fame) to create a Broadway musical that was ahead of its time, anticipating the later innovations in form and content of Stephen Sondheim. But Weill also pays loving tribute to the traditions of American popular music - especially vaudeville - in a score full of hummable show tunes and dazzlingly inventive orchestration. Sung in English with English subtitles.

Cast/Performers

Sam Cooper (Quirijn de Lang / Stephanie Corley)

Creatives/Company

Music: Kurt Weill
Book by: Alan Jay Lerner
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Company: Opera North
Conductor: James Holmes
Director: Matthew Eberhardt
Design: Zahra Mansouri