Photo Flash: ALL IS CALM Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice

On Sunday, November 11, the cast and creative team All Is Calm honored the 100th anniversary of the armistice with a reading of an excerpt from "For the Fallen," a poem by Robert Laurence Binyon, first published in The London Times on September 21st, 1914 and a singing of "Silent Night."

They went with songs to the battle,
they were young,
Straight of limb,
true of eye,
steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell
with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.

The cast of ALL IS CALM features Sasha Andreev (Theater Latté Da's Ragtime), David Darrow (Guthrie Theater's The Royal Family), Benjamin Dutcher (Theater Latté Da's Ragtime), Ben Johnson (All Is Calm), Mike McGowan (The Book of Mormon), Tom McNichols (Cantus), Riley McNutt (All Is Calm), Rodolfo Nieto (Lyric Arts' Guys and Dolls), James Ramlet (Theater Latté Da's Sweeney Todd), and Evan Tyler Wilson (Theater Latté Da's Sweeney Todd).

The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man's Land singing "Stille Nacht." Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace. A remarkable true story, told in the words and songs of the men who lived it, ALL IS CALM is brought to life by a cast of 10 actor/singers and blends iconic WWI patriotic tunes, trench songs, medieval ballads and Christmas carols from England, Wales, France, Belgium and Germany with texts written by more than 30 World War I figures.

Photo Credit: Dan Norman