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|name= Up from Paradise
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|image= Up From_Paradise London Premiere.jpg
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|music= [[Stanley Silverman]]
|lyrics= [[Arthur Miller]]
|book= Arthur Miller
|basis= Miller's play ''[[The Creation of the World and Other Business]]''
|productions= 1974 [[University of Michigan]] <br /> 1981 [[New York City]] concert <br /> 1983 [[Off-Broadway]] <br /> 2014 [[London]]
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'''''Up from Paradise''''' is a [[musical theatre|musical]] with a book and lyrics by [[Arthur Miller]] and music by [[Stanley Silverman]].

In 1972, Miller's comedy ''[[The Creation of the World and Other Business]]'' closed after only twenty performances. Undaunted by its failure, he revamped it as a musical, a retelling of [[God]]'s battle with [[Lucifer]] for control of [[Adam (Bible)|Adam]] and [[Eve]] as chronicled in the [[Book of Genesis]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|last1=Gussow|first1=Mel|title=Arthur Miller Returns to Genesis for First Musical|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/12/specials/miller-genesis.html|access-date=6 January 2017|work=The New York Times|date=April 17, 1974}}</ref>

''Up from Paradise'' was staged at Miller's [[alma mater]], the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor]], in 1974.<ref name= NYT/> It was presented in [[concert]] form in the Composers' Showcase at the [[Whitney Museum]] in [[Manhattan]] in 1981.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Davis|first1=Peter G.|title=Anniversary Faults|journal=New York Magazine|date=October 19, 1981|volume=14|issue=41|pages=89–91|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOYCAAAAMBAJ&q=Composers%27+Showcase+Whitney+%22up+from+paradise%22}}</ref> A fully staged [[off-Broadway]] production, directed by Ran Avni, opened on October 25, 1983 at the Jewish Repertory Theater. The cast included [[Len Cariou]] as God, [[Austin Pendleton]] as Adam, [[Alice Playten]] as Eve, [[Walter Bobbie]] as Lucifer, and [[Lonny Price]] as [[Cain and Abel|Abel]].

The London premiere was staged at the [[New Wimbledon Theatre]] by PK Productions in July 2014.  Directed by [[Patrick Kennedy (Director)|Patrick Kennedy]], with music direction by Jake Dorfman, it opened on July 22 and the cast included Niccolo Curradi as God, Alexander Elwood as Adam, Susanna Squires as Eve, Alex Wingfield as Lucifer, Perry Brookes Jr as Abel and Anthony Pinnick as Cain.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/pages/Up-From-Paradise/1403553009910260?fref=ts {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/26/theater/stage-miller-s-up-from-paradise.html 1983 ''New York Times'' review]
*[http://everything-theatre.co.uk/2014/07/up-from-paradise-new-wimbledon-studio-theatre-review.html 2014 London review]

{{The Works of Arthur Miller}}
{{Adam and Eve}}

[[Category:1974 musicals]]
[[Category:Off-Broadway musicals]]
[[Category:Fiction about the Devil]]
[[Category:Fiction about God]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Adam and Eve]]
[[Category:Musicals based on plays]]
[[Category:Musicals based on the Book of Genesis]]