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Winner! Three 1947 Donaldson Awards for Best Book Best Lyrics and Best Score
Nominee: Seven 2005 Helen Hayes Awards
Winner! Two 2005 Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Resident Musical and Outstanding Director
This ensemble musical chronicles nearly four decades in the life of an Everyman Joseph Taylor Jr. from cradle through a mid-life discovery of who he is and what his life is truly about. The first musical to be staged by a director who also served as choreographer (the legendary Agnes de Mille) Allegrofollowed a unique structural format traveling from Joe's birth through his childhood from college dorm to marriage altar and on to his career; from the tranquility of his small Midwestern hometown to the hectic din of big city life in a series of vignettes and musical sequences dazzling in their simplicity and stunning in their impact. Ahead of its time theatrically Allegroremains timeless in its appeal.
