As direct and warmly intended as a letter from a friend, ?A Second Chance? is a heartfelt new chamber musical about a middle-aged New York banker who lost the love of his life and slowly found the courage to open himself up to a second.
The stages of the budding relationship of Dan and Jenna (played by married actors Brian and Diane Sutherland) are delicately traced in this evening of 20 songs by Ted Shen, a former New York business executive who?s long been devoted to musical theater. He?s so ardent that his foundation has given Signature Theatre ? where ?A Second Chance? had an official opening this week ? more than $1 million for a program to spawn new musicals, out of which have come Signature?s world premieres of Michael John LaChiusa?s ?Giant,? Ricky Ian Gordon?s ?Sycamore Trees? and Joseph Thalken, Michael Slade and Mark Campbell?s ?And the Curtain Rises.?
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