In 1987, Broadway audiences got their first look at Teddy and Alice, a “hysterical and historical” musical comedy with book by Jerome Alden, plus songs by Hal Hackaday and Richard Kapp adapted from the rip-roaring music of the only composer who could possibly capture the essence of these American originals — the immortal March King himself, John Philip Sousa. Kirstianna and Kailtyn Mueller share the role of one of the Roosevelt kids, Kermit, who will platoon in this comical presidential production.
“I can do one of two things,” declares Teddy Roosevelt in Teddy and Alice, the rousingly robust musical slice of Americana that comes to Monmouth University in the star-spangled month of July. "I can either be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both!"
“Alice” was the famous “First Daughter” Alice Roosevelt — the 26th President’s eldest child, and a socialite, political wheeler-dealer, and all around free spirit who, by the time of her death in 1980 at the age of 96, had become known as “the other Washington Monument.” The man who took San Juan Hill, hunted elephant in Africa, and once delivered a campaign speech immediately after being shot in the chest was as “larger than life” as they come. But in “Princess Alice” — a young woman with a taste for smoking, fast cars, and headline-making behavior in the corseted climate of Victorian-era America — Teddy had met his match. 
All performances of Teddy and Alice will be presented inside the historic and recently renovated Woods Theatre — the former carriage house of the Guggenheim estate, during the days depicted in the story. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Central Box Office at 732-263-6889, or online by visiting:
Shadow Lawn Stage is a member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and an Actors’
Equity Stage.
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