Don't Mess with Daedalus!

The theatre season in the Washington D.C. area will include (besides a production of Tom Stoppard's Invention of Love) a new piece called Lift:  Icarus and Me.  Here's the skinny:

In January, Theater of the First Amendment will premiere "Lift: Icarus and Me," a new musical from Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox, a talented team who previously created "Sing Down the Moon," "Nathan the Wise," "Perseus Bayou" and "Odyssey of Telemaca." For "Lift: Icarus and Me," Hall and Surface have once again turned to the classics for their inspiration, this time the myth of the high-flying Icarus and his inventor-father, Daedalus. Transplanted from ancient Greece to the arid expanses of East Texas, this version of the fable features ragtime and Texas swing music and rodeos.