From the Earth to the Moon at BAM Fisher

The year is 1889. Nellie Bly, the enterprising 25-year-old American journalist, becomes an international celebrity when she embarks on a voyage around the world to beat Phileas Fogg’s record from Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. They said a woman couldn’t do it, but Bly proved them wrong—and she scoops the media again when she stops in France and meets the aging Verne.

This meeting of two unlikely kindred spirits inspires Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s sumptuous multimedia theatrical event. Travel across space and time—to the moon and back—with Verne and Bly in this concert that interweaves drama, video, and the music of Chausson, Stephen Foster, Gottschalk, and Chaminade.