SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

About the show

We’re gonna take what’s dark and turn it into light The first show at La Jolla Playhouse to be directed by our new Artistic Director Jessica Stone is the world-premiere musical Silver Linings Playbook, based on the motion picture of the same name and the novel by Matthew Quick. Pat Solatano Jr. is determined to put his life back together and win back his estranged wife after a tumultuous year involving a stay in a psychiatric hospital. Then he meets Tiffany, a sharp, unpredictable young widow with struggles of her own, who offers to help him in exchange for becoming her partner in a dance competition. What begins as a transaction becomes an unnervingly honest relationship, and somewhere between rehearsals, family drama and football games, Pat begins to wonder if the future he’s fighting for is the one he really wants or needs. From Jersey Boys writer Rick Elice, with an exuberant score by pop hitmakers Ian Axel and Chad King of the band A Great Big World, Silver Linings Playbook uses the thrilling language of ballroom dance to express what words cannot. Hot-headed, achingly honest and unabashedly big-hearted, this new musical finds humor in our mess, hope in our setbacks and the unexpected joy that can appear when two people who are trying desperately to fix themselves discover the silver lining in being a little bit broken.