Mary Ann Singleton, Anna Madrigal, and the rest of the inhabitants of 28 Barbary Lane leap off the page and onto the stage tonight when Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City opens at ACT as a big-budget musical. (Check out a .pdf of the program here.)
The series of books by Maupin, the first few of which were serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, follows the goings-on of a motley group of San Franciscans in the mid-1970s. The stories hooked many more fans with a 1993 television adaptation.
KQED’s Cy Musiker interviewed librettist Jeff Whitty, composer Jake Shears, and Armistead Maupin about the book series and the theatrical production. Listen to that below:
Cy Musiker interviews Jake Shears, Armistead Maupin, Jeff Whitty