Village Light Opera Group presents

Death Takes a Holiday

Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston
Book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan

Just after World War I, Death arrives at an Italian villa disguised as a handsome young Prince. On a holiday to understand the human experience and “why all men fear him,” Death soon finds himself in love with the recently engaged daughter of the house. With a romantic, sweeping score from the composer of Titanic the musical, the show is a clever, touching, and funny (yes funny!) exploration of what it means to live and our relationship with death.

Death Takes a Holiday is adapted from the 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, which was translated to English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris. The play was previously was adapted into a 1934 film of the same name starring Fredric March, which was remade in 1998 as Meet Joe Black.

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