{"id":264411,"date":"2026-06-12T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:51:08","slug":"5-fun-facts-about-a-walk-on-the-moon-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264411\/","title":{"rendered":"5 fun facts about &#8216;A Walk on the Moon\u2019 off Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have liftoff. The out-of-this-world thrill of discovery beats at the heart of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/46799-a-walk-on-the-moon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Walk on the Moon<\/a>, a new musical based on the same-named 1999 movie directed by Tony Goldwyn and starring Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen.<\/p>\n<p>Launching June 15 at the Laura Pels Theatre, the musical is set in 1969 as the world anticipated the Apollo 11 lunar landing. In a Catskills bungalow colony, Brooklyn housewife Pearl Kantrowitz gets pulled into romance, Woodstock, and countercultural upheaval, questioning the limits of her life as a wife and mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same story, and I would say it&#8217;s the same characters,\u201d said Pamela Gray, who adapted her screenplay into the musical&#8217;s book and lyrics. \u201cHowever, they&#8217;ve been recreated in the perspective of thinking of how they express themselves, since there&#8217;s now music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AnnMarie Milazzo composed the music and co-wrote the lyrics with Gray, while Tony nominee Sheryl Kaller directs and Josh Prince choreographs. The Off-Broadway principal cast includes Talia Suskauer, Max Chernin, Sam Gravitte, Andr\u00e9a Burns, Sophie Pollono, and Oscar Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Before you blast off for A Walk on the Moon, learn even more fun facts about the musical below.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/46799-a-walk-on-the-moon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Walk on the Moon tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have liftoff. The out-of-this-world thrill of discovery beats at the heart of A Walk on the Moon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-264411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}