Lost in the Stars (Encores)

The 2012 City Center Encores! production of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s 'Lost in the Stars' brought a thrilling, vocally staggering, and critically adored concert revival of the 1949 musical tragedy masterpiece to the New York stage. Directed by Gary Griffin with choreography by Chase, this high-profile staging focused with symphonic clarity on Weill’s final operatic score and Alan Paton’s source novel *Cry, the Beloved Country*. Set inside a sweltering provincial village in South Africa under apartheid, the narrative tracks a resilient Black minister searching for his lost son in Johannesburg, starring Chuck Cooper.