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Sure, Harry Potter and the Twilight vampires became blockbuster movies, but the idea of bringing a children’s book about World War I cavalry horses to life in a theater sounds impossible. The creative minds at London’s National Theatre thought otherwise, and War Horse burst onto the stage to universal acclaim, thanks to the directing team of Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, Handspring Puppet Company designers Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, and adapter Nick Stafford. But it all started with a heartwarming novel by award-winning children’s author Michael Morpurgo, who envisioned a story of love and loyalty between a farm boy and his brave and beautiful horse. As Lincoln Center Theater’s production of War Horse prepares to open on April 14 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway.com asked Morpurgo to describe what the experience of seeing his story transformed into a play—and now crossing the pond to Broadway—has meant to him.
The journey of War Horse from my little village of Iddesleigh in Devon (in the west of England, population less than a hundred) to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York, via the West End of London ...
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