“With a cage for a yard you can only mope in, when a front door shuts, should a gate open?” Winnie sings. When the fair comes to town, well-behaved Winnie wants nothing more than the chance to get out of the house for a bit, but when her mom turns her request down, that’s when trouble brews. Winnie Foster is a vibrant 11-year-old stifled by the rules of her overprotective yet well-intentioned mother Betsy (Carolyn Hartvigsen, MTF), who is still grieving the death of her husband Winnie’s father.
… That’s what us Tucks are, just floating stuck.” “Once you drop an anchor,” Angus sings to Winnie (Ava Hoekstra, MWF) of the family’s predicament, “the boat gets stuck and it could stay forever, just floating on top, watching life pass it by. The tale, now playing at Hale Center Theater Orem, centers on the century-old Tuck family: a mother, Mae Tuck (played by Dianna Graham Monday, Wednesday, Friday), father, Angus Tuck (Brett Merritt, MWF), and their two sons – Miles (Cleveland McKay Nicoll, Monday-Saturday) and Jesse (Carter Walker, MWF), who, in search of a new life and home, inadvertently drank from the eternal spring and have found themselves halted in time. The question has echoed – what if such a solution existed? Some magic elixir to stop the progression of time?įew literary works tackle the subject as adeptly as Babbitt’s book, placing the answer to eternal life in a stream running through a forest in the tiny town of Treegap, New Hampshire. The concept of eternal life has sent ripples through humanity for centuries, with many questing to find a solution to what they saw as the problem of death and aging. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”
In the Broadway incarnation of Natalie Babbitt’s beloved novel, “Tuck Everlasting,” the eternally wise Angus Tuck tells a young Winnie Foster, “Don’t be afraid of death be afraid of an unlived life.
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