GIRL, INTERRUPTED (“The Play With Music”) At The Public
GIRL, INTERRUPTED (“The Play With Music”) At The Public
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Posted: 11/5/25 at 2:16pm
Music by Aimee Mann. Coming Spring 2026.
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Posted: 11/5/25 at 2:21pm
"Your Aorta is in Your Chest (Reprise)"
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Posted: 11/5/25 at 2:28pm
Aimee released a concept album of material for this play back in 2021, Queens of the Summer Hotel, which is just glorious.
I cannot wait to see what Martyna, Sonya, and Jo bring to this material and what’s new in Aimee’s score!
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Posted: 11/5/25 at 2:34pm
This could be awesome -- but it's interesting that it's being billed as a "play with music". Perhaps that's the best way to adapt it.
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Posted: 11/5/25 at 3:20pm
PianoMann said: "Aimee released a concept album of material for this play back in 2021,Queens of the Summer Hotel, which is just glorious.
I cannot wait to see what Martyna, Sonya, and Jo bring to this material and what’s new in Aimee’s score!"
Give Me Fifteen is my favorite track on that album, hope the play includes it in some way
Stand-by Joined: 12/27/17
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Posted: 11/5/25 at 4:07pm
Hopefully, they will be taking their cues from the book, which is more surreal and less sentimental than the movie.
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Posted: 11/5/25 at 5:12pm
My favorite track is I See You. I am very excited to see what Sonya does for this.
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Posted: 12/12/25 at 2:47am
Excited to get my tickets today for this on the Amex Presale at The Public using the code AMEXPRE26.
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Posted: 12/12/25 at 6:55am
Just grabbed mine too. This is definitely the piece I am most excited about for the spring. I thought Aimee's concept album from a couple years back was excellent.
I know it is early but any rumors on casting? These roles are so rich.
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Posted: 3/21/26 at 12:24pm
First preview in about 7 weeks…any word about casting?
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
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Posted: 4/2/26 at 1:14pm
Cast list is up on the Public website. Juliana Canfield as Susanna Kaysen; King Princess, Emily Skinner, Manoel Felciano and more
https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2526/girl-interrupted/
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/30/17
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Posted: 4/2/26 at 1:17pmUpdated On: 4/3/26 at 01:17 PM
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Posted: 4/2/26 at 10:17pm
This is one of my all time favorite movies. I was WAY too young of a child to be watching this, and Daisy’s (Brittany Murphys character) suicide always haunted me. Even as an adult I can still replay that scene in my head with the music on loop that she played on that vinyl record. That scene is one of the most iconic scenes in cinema for me. I really, really hope that they depict that on stage accurately.
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Posted: 5/16/26 at 11:36pm
Anyone catch this? Taking my mom to this mid June.
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Posted: 5/17/26 at 10:54am
bandit964: Anyone catch this? Taking my mom to this mid June.
I attended on Friday at the 199-seat Martinson Theater at The Public. It is a chamber musical with thought provoking songs sung mainly by different patients in a psychiatric hospital. That being said, it will obviously not be for everyone so know what you’re signing up for. This is my favorite type of art though because I am often surprised and get to meet characters through song instead of dialogue. I just love when it feels like a song was delicately crafted and I am moved emotionally to leave the show and want to hear the songs again and again now with fleshed out characters in mind that I just met. All the performances did that for me.
I was familiar with Aimee Mann’s “Queens of the Summer Hotel” album but did not know it by heart. I have listened to it twice since seeing the show and it will definitely be on repeat. I love her wry, literate lyrics and the melodies with piano and strings are so comforting for such a difficult subject. I hope we get a cast recording.
The set is dark, foreboding and on a turntable. I thought there would be more choreography since Sonya Tayeh is attached but it is minimal which makes sense given the subject matter. The book sets up the journey and I found the pacing excellent. It was one hour and fifty five minutes with no intermission.
The songs are the stars of this show. Sally Shaw as Polly shattered “Burn it Out” and Gabi Campo (terrific) finally opens up “In Mexico.” Julianna Canfield is very good as Susanna and is on stage throughout. Loved her “At the Frick” and her duet “Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath” with Grace (Mia Pak) is a definite highlight. Manoel Felciano plays all the male roles including the misogynist psychiatrist who gets to diagnose in a show-stopping “Give Me Fifteen.” Heather Gilbert offers impressive lighting. I was sad that Emily Skinner did not get a song. Perhaps that will change in the future.
I wish my mother was still around to take to experience this as I am positive there would be a lot of dialogue afterwards. This play takes place in the late ‘60’s and much of the attitude towards mental illness or just plain nonconformity is a lot different today thank God. I remember my mom had Frances Farmer’s biography “Will There Really Be a Morning?” on her nightstand for a while. She always rooted for defiant feminist rebels.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/08
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Posted: 5/17/26 at 11:25am
Melissa25 said: "
bandit964:Anyone catch this? Taking my mom to this mid June.
I attended on Friday at the 199-seat Martinson Theater at The Public. It is a chamber musical with thought provoking songs sung mainly by different patients in a psychiatric hospital. That being said, it will obviously not be for everyone so know what you’re signing up for. This is my favorite type of art though because I am often surprised and get to meet characters through song instead of dialogue. I just love when it feels like a song was delicately crafted and I am moved emotionally to leave the show and want to hear the songs again and again now with fleshed out characters in mind that I just met. All the performances did that for me.
"
I attended on Thursday. I did appreciate the performances but the pacing dragged a bit for me. It was one of those shows where the audience members didn't seem to know if they could clap after a song. The only exception was "Burn It Out". It was very much as visualize it yourself type of play. There aren't any grand scenes, if you catch my drift.
Unfortunately, we had a litle tech issue as Mia's mic seemed to have gone out towards the end of the show so you couldn't hear her too well.
Overall, it wasn't exactly my cup of tea but I wouldn't discourage others from seeing it.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/15/13
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Posted: 5/22/26 at 1:15pm
Just saw this on Wednesday 5/20. It's billed as an "electrifying new musical" but I thought it was DOA. Poorly acted and directed, very tepid audience response with quite a few walkouts. Some good songs but that's about it. I couldn't wait to get out of there. The casting of King Princess is especially confusing. Just terrible.
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Posted: 5/28/26 at 11:44am
I’m not hearing much about his show, has anyone else been to see it? Are there any talks of transfer? I wonder if Whoopi has seen it yet and if they will get her to shout it out on The View.
for those who have seen it, how do they handle Daisy’s suicide scene? That’s always been the host haunting part of the show for me
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Posted: 5/29/26 at 7:57am
Saw this a few days back. The worst thing a production can be is boring. The only thing worse than that is frustrating, and I was immensely frustrated by this production.
I like some other people were confused/intrigued of whether or not this would be a proper book musical based on the Aimee Man album (of which I had no familiarity with, I had scene the movie recently for this first time however) or a play featuring some of the songs, and it seems that the play doesn’t know either! What starts as a conventional book musical becomes a play that is routinely interrupted by songs, many of which are straight up bad and continually the show to a standstill. Everyone gets their solo momentum be dammned, and every song is a plaintive piano ballad. These are characters who frequently are raging against their circumstances and are certifiably “insane,” why is every song in sad indie girl mode? The show is also grossly under orchestrated so there is no diversity in what we are hearing, and the few songs that are jaunty (King Princess’ “I’m a Sociopath” and the doctor’s “fifteen minutes) are some of the worst songs I’ve seen onstage in recent memory.
The physical staging is incredibly dull, a beautiful evocative set is often used to just house characters sitting in semi-circle formation, and the choreography is laughably minimal and pointless - I cannot believe Tayeh was the one behind it.
The frustrating thing is that there are some really excellent performances attempting to hold this together. Canfield is a marvel, switching between her adult and child self seamlessly and her moments of dissociation and pure terror of her circumstance is heartbreaking (she also sounds eerily like Mann on the recording which I listened to after the show). The other young women in the fast are frequently lovely and touching as well. King Princess is directed (or not directed against) doing an Angelina Jolie impression for the first two thirds, incredibly distracting when everyone else is doing an original take compared to the iconic movie performances, but at the end of the show with a monologue and duet with Canfield she actually approaches transcendent. She has a real future in the theater with the right material and director.
There’s also some really moving passages where the songs stop and the play takes over - I wish this was perhaps more in the vein of a Peter and the Starcatcher, a play fueled by music and movement but that only scarcely breaks full out into song.
The more I think about this show the angrier I get so I’m going to stop with saying that I would be shocked beyond belief if this transfers uptown. It’s a failure on almost every level in my opinion.
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Posted: 5/29/26 at 7:58am
for those who have seen it, how do they handle Daisy’s suicide scene? That’s always been the host haunting part of the show for me
It happens offstage. Quite a lot of material that could have been affecting or upsetting is just narrated to us by Canfield or explained by other characters.
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Posted: 5/29/26 at 2:57pm
Art Isn’t Easy said: "It happens offstage. Quite a lot of material that could have been affecting or upsetting is just narrated to us by Canfield or explained by other characters."
How does that not make this endeavor entirely toothless? Not saying this should be glorified, but that is one of the most important moments of the film. To not even try to dramatize it feels like an abject failure.
I'm so tired of directors/writers/producers not trusting their audience to be along for the ride and instead sanitizing/spoon feeding uncomfortable truths rather than working through a creative process to deliver a wallop that would make shows more impactful. Says everything about their level of trust in the story they're trying to tell.
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Posted: 5/29/26 at 3:57pm
This is an adaptation of the book. Not an adaptation of the movie. The book is narrated by Susanna and you do not read Daisy's suicide as it has. Sit down, relax, and understand the source material because you make inane comments.
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Posted: 5/31/26 at 3:50pm
Art Isn’t Easy said: "Saw this a few days back. The worst thing a production can be is boring. The only thing worse than that is frustrating, and I was immensely frustrated by this production.
I like some other people were confused/intrigued of whether or not this would be a proper book musical based on the Aimee Man album (of which I had no familiarity with, I had scene the movie recently for this first time however) or a play featuring some of the songs, and it seems that the play doesn’t know either! What starts as a conventional book musical becomes a play that is routinely interrupted by songs, many of which are straight up bad and continually the show to a standstill. Everyone gets their solo momentum be dammned, and every song is a plaintive piano ballad. These are characters who frequently are raging against their circumstances and are certifiably “insane,” why is every song in sad indie girl mode? The show is also grossly under orchestrated so there is no diversity in what we are hearing, and the few songs that are jaunty (King Princess’ “I’ma Sociopath” and the doctor’s “fifteen minutes)are some of the worst songs I’ve seen onstage in recent memory.
The physical staging is incredibly dull, a beautiful evocative set is often used to just house characters sitting in semi-circle formation, and the choreography is laughably minimal and pointless - I cannot believe Tayeh was the one behind it.
The frustrating thing is that there are some really excellent performances attempting to hold this together. Canfield is a marvel, switching between her adult and child self seamlessly and her moments of dissociation and pure terror of her circumstance is heartbreaking (she also sounds eerily like Mann on the recording which I listened to after the show). The other young women in the fast are frequently lovely and touching as well. King Princess is directed (or not directed against) doing an Angelina Jolie impression for the first two thirds, incredibly distracting when everyone else is doing an original take compared to the iconic movie performances, but at the end of the show with a monologue and duet with Canfield she actually approaches transcendent. She has a real future in the theater with the right material and director.
There’s also some really moving passages where the songs stop and the play takes over - I wish this was perhaps more in the vein of a Peter and the Starcatcher, a play fueled by music and movement but that only scarcely breaks full out into song.
The more I think about this show the angrier I get so I’m going to stop with saying that I would be shocked beyond belief if this transfers uptown. It’s a failure on almost every level in my opinion."
Complete agreement. It almost felt immersive, like I was also trapped in a horrible place contemplating ending it all. I saw many people checking their watches and phones to see how much time remained.
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Posted: 6/3/26 at 3:53pm
Extended again through July 12, per the Public's website
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