The Golden Apple (2017 Encores)

The 2017 City Center Encores! production of Jerome Moross and John Latouche’s 'The Golden Apple' brought a thrilling, vocally staggering, and critically adored concert revival of the rare 1954 musical masterpiece to the New York stage. Directed by Michael Berresse, this high-profile staging focused with symphonic clarity on the entirely through-composed score and John Latouche’s book script. The picaresque plot transposes Homer's classic epics *The Iliad* and *The Odyssey* into a satirical American landscape in the state of Washington, tracking a heroic Spanish-American War veteran soldier named Ulysses, starring Mikaela Bennett and Ryan Silverman.