Elon Performing Arts – Performing Arts Productions at Elon University

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Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa imagines the inner lives and dreams of America’s best-known daughters with a funny and moving follow-up to his 1993 musical “First Lady Suite.” A historical fantasia in four parts, “First Daughter Suite” follows Patricia Nixon and daughters Tricia and Julie, Roslyn and Amy Carter, Betty and Susan Ford, Patti Davis and Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush and daughter-in-law Laura as they strive to live meaningful lives in the public eye. This wholly captivating musical with a lush, sweeping score is a deeply felt new work about mothers, daughters and the surprising discoveries we make about one another as we grow.

Note: This production explores themes of war, grief, privilege, racism, hate speech, addiction, motherhood, generational trauma, and cultural stereotypes, including Islamophobia. Depictions of smoking, alcohol use, violence and death, including shooting and minimal amounts of stage blood. Loud sound effects, including gunshots.