After receiving rave reviews, being shortlisted as one of only ten musicals for the Musical Theatre Review Best Musical Award and being nominated for Best Musical at the Broadway World Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Streetlights, People! Productions’ revival of Ordinary Days returns to London as the winner of the Drayton Arms’ Eddies Kensington Award, intended to identify “the most exciting new companies at this year’s Fringe Festival.” This production began with a sold-out engagement at the Hen and Chickens Theatre last October before transferring to London Theatre Workshop.
Ordinary Days is a contemporary musical, set in modern-day New York. It follows the parallel lives of four young city-dwellers struggling to find meaning in the madness: Claire, who can’t let go of her past; Jason, determined to begin their future together; Warren, an artist who’s lost his sense of purpose; and Deb, a student who’s lost her thesis notes. It is a witty, poignant, and ultimately very relatable story about human connection and finding beauty in unexpected places.
Streetlights, People! was founded by Nora Perone (who plays Deb) and Jen Coles (who directs) while they were both students at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama– for them, producing their own projects meant never having to spend a day at home waiting for the phone to ring.
Nora Perone says: “I was drawn to Ordinary Days because, as well as being a triumph of musical comedy, it’s also a brilliant examination of the struggles faced today by young adults– and particularly by young artists. Ordinary Days is a breath of fresh air in a city that can sometimes feel polluted with cynicism and self-doubt. We set out to do two performances last October, and suddenly it’s a year later, and our press night at the Drayton Arms will be our 50th show. We’ve really been very lucky: we are immensely grateful to have audiences who love the show just as much as we do.”
Ordinary Days will be at the Drayton Arms November 21st 2017 – December 9th 2017.
