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Charlie and Algernon is a musical with a book and lyrics by David Rogers and music by Charles Strouse. It is based on the 1966 novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It received its premiere on December 21, 1978, at The Citadel Theater, in Edmonton, Canada.
David Rogers's stage adaptation follows Charlie Gordon, a man with an intellectual disability who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence. As Charlie becomes highly intelligent and then begins to regress, he confronts how others treat him and asks that flowers be placed on Algernon's grave.
Charlie and Algernon is a musical with a book and lyrics by David Rogers and music by Charles Strouse. It is based on the 1966 novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It received its premiere on December 21, 1978, at The Citadel Theater, in Edmonton, Canada.
David Rogers's stage adaptation follows Charlie Gordon, a man with an intellectual disability who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence. As Charlie becomes highly intelligent and then begins to regress, he confronts how others treat him and asks that flowers be placed on Algernon's grave.