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An Interview with 鈥淛ericho Road鈥 Writer/Producer Lindsay Morton

By Becky St. Clair, Lauren VandenHoven, & Laura Gang on January 5, 2023

In February, Paulin Hall will host the U.S. premiere of 鈥淛ericho Road,鈥 a musical written and produced by Lindsay Morton, associate academic dean for PUC. The show was first produced at Avondale University in Australia, and then in Sydney and Perth. As all three were highly successful, Morton suggested it be done at PUC. The rest, as they say, is history. Written in response to 鈥淭he Last Five Years,鈥 a musical by Jason Robert Brown, 鈥淛ericho Road鈥 is a boy-meets-girl, then boy-leaves-girl story. It centers on Leila, a part coincidentally played by PUC student Leila Beltran, and her husband, Jake, played by PUC student (and music major) Tyler Wilensky.鈥淚 fell in love with 鈥楾he Last Five Years,鈥 and found myself wondering how the story would have been different if the couple had been Christian,鈥 Morton explains. So she began pulling together pieces she鈥檇 composed over the years that fit the story she felt developing, and composed a few more around them. The driving questions of 鈥淛ericho Road鈥 are: What does it mean to be faithful to a spouse who is unfaithful to you? And how can we be faithful to a God who seems absent?鈥淚t鈥檚 a difficult topic, but one...
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