Details
In Delhi, preparations are under way for a lavish, nonstop, four-day celebration to mark the arranged marriage of Aditi and Hemant. Aditi is the only daughter of an upper middle-class family in India. She is about to meet her groom, an Indian-American from New Jersey. It should be the perfect wedding, but the bride is having an affair, her father is in financial trouble, and as members of the family descend from around the world, dark family secrets surface. At its heart Monsoon Wedding is an anthem to modern India. In the way that the film introduced the world of a globalizing India, the musical is a celebration of the exuberant chaos of contemporary India and its vibrant diaspora. The musical explores the ever-increasing difference and discrepancy in India between the rich and the poor, the old and the new, the traditional and the modern, the east and the west.
Creatives/Company
Music(s):
Vishal Bhardwaj,
Jamshied Sharfiri (orchestration)
Book by(s):
Arpita Mukherjee,
Sabrina DhawanLyrics(s):
Masi Asare,
Susan BirkenheadDirector(s):
Mira Nair,
Stephen Whitson,
Scott Graham (movement director),
Karishma Balani (casting director)