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"An indomitable talent!" - South End News
"A thoroughly enjoyable evening! McGovern is just good company. Expert vocals — McGovern is blessed with a wonderful instrument and a consummate technique to match." - The Hub Review
"Maureen McGovern has enormous vocal prowess and personal charm. What's here is gold!" - EdgeBoston.com
Grammy Award winner and pop icon Maureen McGovern's moving musical memoir chronicles the hope-filled years of the 1960s, through the dark years of Vietnam, Watergate, and the Civil Rights Movement, the AIDS crisis, and on to today and the hope of a better tomorrow. Best known for her breakout hit, the Academy Award-winning "The Morning After," McGovern returns to her roots as a folk singer as she performs the classic songs The New York Times has dubbed "the second half of the Great American Songbook," including Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin,'" Carole King's "You've Got a Friend," The Beatles' "Let it Be," Joni Mitchell's "All I Want," Paul Simon's "America," Laura Nyro's "And When I Die," and many more.
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Maureen McGovern doesn’t need to take gingko biloba to boost her memory, she has a much better remedy: the songs.
Maureen McGovern is a dame's dame: funny, wry, and fearless. In A Long and Winding Road, she blends music and memories as she chronicles her growth as a performer and a person.
Maureen grew up listening to some of the greatest jazz, folk and pop singers of the 20th century – singers who would heavily influence and inspire her own career.
The issues raised in the 1950s and '60s brought forth some of America's most influential and memorable political leaders. Learn more about the people who shaped the nation.
"Road has surprising potency! It's easy to see why McGovern is such a highly regarded performer! Her voice remains powerful, supple, and expressive. Maureen McGovern knows how to navigate a song’s emotional peaks and valleys and how to woo and win an audience. When you hear her deliver these songs, it’s a reminder of how much they deserve to live on." - The Boston Globe
"Maureen McGovern has a voice like no other. I'm in love with that woman's voice! An extraordinary story. She works the music in beautifully to her own biography. I'd never heard these songs like I heard them until they came out of her mouth and were put in the context of her life." - Jared Bowen, WGBH's 'Greater Boston'
"Maureen McGovern has some pipes. Her ability to sing will stay with you after A Long and Winding Road. - Fenway News
"Beautifully sung! The fun is infectious." - The Washington Post
"A captivating musical scrapbook from the 1960s to the early '70s. Ms. McGovern is blessed with a vocal technique second to none." - The New York Times
"A remarkably strong and soulful voice! A deeply personal and inspirational performance by one of the nation's best vocal stylists." - DC Theatre Scene
Maureen McGovern appeared as herself in A Long and Winding Road (2009) at the Huntington.
Philip Himberg previously directed the Huntington's production of A Long and Winding Road (2009). He is the producing artistic director of Sundance Institute Theatre Program where he has created and overseen the developmental theatre laboratories since 1997.
Jeffrey Harris previously music directed A Long and Winding Road (2009) at the Huntington. He is equally at home as a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and lyricist. He has worked with such diverse performers as Maureen McGovern, Chaka Khan, Barbara Cook, Jack Jones, Audra McDonald, and Cleo Laine.
Cristina Todesco designed the sets for The Who & the What (2017)Milk Like Sugar (2016(one of the three plays she designed in The Shirley, Vermont Play Festival), The Long and Winding Road (2009), and The Atheist (2007) for the Huntington. Recent designs include Chill (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Hand to God (SpeakEasy Stage Company), Red Noses (Boston Conservatory at Berklee), and The Totalitarians (Gloucester Stage Company).
Charles Schoonmaker previously designed costumes for Venus in Fur (2014), God of Carnage (2012), and A Long and Winding Road (2009) at the Huntington. His New York productions include Limonade tous les Jours (The Cell Theatre), 9/11 Portraits (Union Square Theatre), and Portrait of Jennie (Henry Street Settlement).
David Lander previously lighting designed Ether Dome (2014), Before I Leave You (2011), and Carry It On (formerly titled A Long and Winding Road) (2009) at the Huntington. His Broadway credits include Master Class with Tyne Daly, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams (Drama Desk Award; Tony and Outer Critics Award nominations).
Maya Ciarrochi did lighting design for All My Sons (2010) and A Long and Winding Road (2009) at the Huntington.
Ben Emerson recently designed sound for Tartuffe (2017). He has been the sound supervisor at the Huntington for the last 20 years. He has designed over a dozen productions at the Huntington, as well as many shows in Boston’s small theatre community and New England regional theatres.
Kathryn Most previously served as stage manager for the Huntington’s productions of The Jungle Book, Rapture, Blister, Burn; Good People; Candide; Sons of the Prophet; Circle Mirror Transformation; Stick Fly.