Tuck Everlasting Is a Family-Friendly Musical about Ordinary Life versus Immortality
Tuck Everlasting is a musical about an eleven-year-old girl named Winnie Foster (Sarah Charles Lewis) who longs to escape her house and have adventures. She gets her wish when she meets her mysterious neighbors, the Tuck family. The Tucks need to keep moving around and separating because they all drank water from the spring in their woods, which makes them immortal. They can survive gunshots and other attempts to kill them. But most humans perceive the Tucks as weird, distrust them, and persecute them. This musical questions our assumption that eternal life is desirable. (more…)