'Days Of Wine And Roses' Creators, Stars On NPR's 'Morning Edition'

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Days of Wine and Roses, which opened on Broadway last night to rave reviews, was featured on NPR's Morning Edition today. NPR contributor Jeff Lunden talks with composer Adam Guettel, script writer Craig Lucas, stars Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James, and director Matthew Greif about the creation of the new musical. You can hear what they had to say here:

All of the artists were also in a New York Times feature over the weekend. "I come off the stage feeling emotional, but elated and proud and breathless - literally breathless - from the freedom to be given a challenge like this and to be trusted with it … I've never been so passionate about anything in my life," O'Hara tells the Times.

"Astonishing … superb," Laura Collins-Hughes writes in her New York Times Critic's Pick review. "Guettel's anxious, spiky, sumptuous score … grabs hold of us and doesn't let go."

This searing musical is based on the 1962 film and original 1958 teleplay of the same name, about a couple falling in love in 1950s New York and struggling against themselves to build their family. Days of Wine and Roses marks the reunion of Guettel and Lucas, who last collaborated on the six-time Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza.