Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Mandy Patinkin Leads Menier Chocolate Factory’s PARADISE FOUND in West End
WhatsOnStage.com is reporting Mandy Patinkin will star in the upcoming production of PARADISE FOUND, the new musical co-directed by theatre legends Susan Strohman and Hal Prince. The musical will play the Menier Chocolate Factory from May 19th through June 26th. The show is expected to move to New York sometime following the Chocolate Factory run.
Paradise Found will have a book by Richard Nelson, lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh and music by Johann Strauss II and Jonathan Tunick. The show is based off of Joseph Roth’s novel “Tale of the 1,002nd Night”. In the novel, which takes place in Vienna, the Shah of Persia falls for a beautiful countess. The Austrian officials arrange for him to spend the night with the “countess”, but unbeknown to the Shah she is a prostitute who merely resembles the countess. Patinkin will play the Shah’s eunuch, who advises him on a number of issues.