Flying Over Sunset

What's Flying Over Sunset Like?

Flying Over Sunset is a two act musical that follows three of the most influential people of the 1950’s era, while they each experience the powerful mind altering effects of the (then legal) drug commonly known as LSD. Cary Grant, Clare Boothe Luce, and Aldous Huxley take center stage in this sojourn in the mind-altered state of LSD in the early 1950s. This new musical is inspired by those mind-expanding experiences and is set in various locales in the world during the free state-of-mind of post WW2, but still innocent enough world, of the 1950’s.

Show Follows Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant

The show is loosely based on real life stories and shows the use of LSD by Aldous Huxley, who was an English born world-famous philosopher. Clare Boothe Luce, was an American born author, U.S. politician and the first woman to become an internationally based U.S. Ambassador. Cary Grant, was a great American actor, who is now known as one of “Hollywood's definitive leading men”.

The first act shows each one of them taking the drug at the same time, but separate from one another and unaware of each other. The second act shows them all taking the drug together at a NYC dinner party. The audience watch as each of them are in their hallucinogenic state and can draw on the different, yet similar, enlightening experiences that they each experiencing. The play depicts the use of the substance, LSD, as potentially a good thing for humanity and attempts to educate people in order to legalize the drug.

Critics Challenge that the Show is an Infomercial for Drug Legalization

Many critics believe that Flying Over Sunset is an infomercial for the legalization of all drugs. The show, which about the use of the mind altering substance LSD, comes at a time when even marijuana still remains a schedule 1 felony at the federal level. Although many states have passed their own marijuana laws and no longer prosecute, all harder drugs are met with stiff fines and jail time. This show comes with head-on approach to change the thinking about drugs and asks 'Who's life is it anyway?'.

Is Flying Over Sunset Good for Kids?

This show is not for kids under the age of 17, because of the show's content matter and its promotion and use of illegal substances.

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