Death takes a holiday musical
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Death Takes a Holiday
A musical in two acts; music and lyrics by Maury Yeston; book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan - adapted from the 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella (adapted in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris).
Laura Pels Theatre, off-Broadway 10 June - 4 September, 2011
Synopsis
Act I
Duke Vittorio Lamberti and his family are driving home to their hilltop villa outside of Venice in 1921 after the engagement party of their daughter, Grazia, to Corrado Montelli.
A mysterious shadowy figure blocks the road and the car screeches to a halt. Grazia is thrown from the car but, miraculously, is unhurt.
Death takes a holiday musical
Even her clothes are unruffled. Somehow, she knows that the world has changed for her. Later that night, Death, inspired by Grazia's beauty, visits Grazia in her garden. He then goes to her father and explains that he has taken the body of a Russian prince, Nikolai Sirki, who has just committed suicide, in order to take human form for the