Musicals with longest time-spans?- Page 2

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 10/2/18 at 3:48am

Lauren2 said: "Well you would have to include HP (although it is not musical) because it includes Harry as a child and a kid."

Which reminds me of PETER PAN, at least the musical. (I saw a children's theater version of the original, but that was 50 years ago!)

Doesn't the last scene show the return of Peter, who comes back only to discover that time passes more quickly in our world and Wendy is now grown up, with children of her own? Surely Wendy was no more than 12 in the earlier scenes, so she needed a decade to grow up and get married, then another 12 years or so for her own daughter to be played by the girl who played young Wendy earlier.

So a total of at least 22, probably a couple more, years.

Updated On: 10/2/18 at 03:48 AM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/2/18 at 8:16am

I DO! I DO! starts off with the marriage of two young people and ends with them moving into (presumably) a retirement home.

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 10/2/18 at 11:28am

Lauren2 said: "Well you would have to include HP (although it is not musical) because it includes Harry as a child and a kid."

Hmmmm that's a hard one since the flow of time is not in a straight line. I would not count the times of him appearing as a kid at those are not even really flashbacks as they are dreams (I don't count that as a spoiler since I don't say what happens in the dreams so don't come at me) but what happens in Part 2, Act 2 is not a dream so though it's not a thru line you can argue that the show does cover points in time over the span of almost 40 years.