Step through the wardrobe and into the enchanted world of Narnia, where magic, adventure, and destiny await. In Irita Kutchmy’s musical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ beloved first tale, audiences are invited to journey beyond the fur coats into a snow-covered land where animals talk, trees whisper, and the White Witch rules with icy power.
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy arrive at a rambling old country house, home of the eccentric Professor Kirk and his sharp-tongued housekeeper Mrs. Macready. The children are shown to the spare room, which is empty but for a large wardrobe. While the others go off exploring the house, Lucy opens the wardrobe, pushes through the fur coats and finds herself by a lamppost in a snow-covered wood. Befriended by a faun called Mr. Tumnus, she learns that she is in the strange land of Narnia, where it is permanently Winter, but never Christmas, thanks to a spell cast by the wicked White Witch.
When Lucy returns from Narnia and tells the others of her adventure, they don’t believe her. Reluctantly, Edmund follows her into the wardrobe and is confronted by the White Witch, who promises to make him King if he leads his brother and sisters to her castle. By the time Peter and Susan arrive, the powers of evil have gained the ascendancy. Mr. Tumnus is under arrest and the White Witch’s enemies are all being turned to stone statues.
Aslan the lion, who is the Lord of the Wood, returns to Narnia to defeat the Witch and enlists the children’s help. Edmund betrays his siblings under the influence of the Witch and in so doing, forfeits his life to her by the law of the Deep Magic. Aslan bravely takes Edmund’s place and is killed by the Witch, only to be saved by the Deeper Magic, because he is willingly taking the place of a traitor. All the stone statues are freed, Father Christmas comes back, the White Witch is finally defeated. The children are crowned as Kings and Queens of Narnia.
Many years later, they stumble across the same lamppost and push their way back to Professor Kirk’s spare room through the fur coats. To their amazement, time has stood still while they have been away.
Just open the door. You’ll never believe what you’ll find.
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THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
Music by
IRITA KUTCHMY
Book and lyrics by
IRITA KUTCHMY
Based on the novel by
C.S. LEWIS