First Daughter Suite (Original Cast Recording)
Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa (Giant, See What I Wanna See, The Wild Party) imagines the inner lives and dreams of America's best-known daughters with a funny and moving follow-up to his 1993 musical First Lady Suite.<br><br>A historical fantasia in four-parts, First Daughter Suite follows Patricia Nixon and daughters Tricia and Julie, Roselyn and Amy Carter, Betty and Susan Ford, Patti Davis and mom Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush and daughter-in-law Laura as they strive to live meaningful lives in the public eye, while dealing with the complex private relationships all of us face with our parents and children.<br><br>Directed by Kirsten Sanderson (Under My Skin, First Lady Suite), this wholly captivating new musical with a lush, sweeping score is a deeply felt new work about mothers, daughters and the surprising discoveries we make about one another as we grow.<br><br>First Daughter Suite opened at The Public Theater on October 21, 2015 in New York City.