Roundabout's New Musical Follows One Heart for 24 Hours

Kait Kerrigan wrote the book and additional lyrics, Anne and Ian Eisendrath wrote music and lyrics, and the source is Maylis de Kerangal's 2014 novel Réparer les vivants. The frame stays inside twenty-four hours: a young surfer dies, a stranger receives the heart, and a surgical team works the clock that never leaves the stage. Christopher Ashley directs and Mandy Moore choreographs. Everything lands in one sitting: the piece runs ninety minutes without an intermission.

The set is a blue-lit operating theatre: pale panels, steel carts and two surgical lamps hanging over the table, with video projections running across the back wall. Nine performers carry the night without a break, and the story hands off between the family and the surgical team without the room ever leaving the stage. Read Roundabout's advisories before you book: death, loss, chronic illness and medical procedures are the material, and the show uses haze, fog, flashing lights, fast-moving video and several loud electronic numbers.

Criterion listed 11/05 seats at $69 to $121 per seat when checked on Oct 27. Hiptix, free to join between 18 and 40, sells $30 seats, two per production: register, verify your age with photo ID, then buy in the app, by phone at 212.719.1300 or at the box office. Student rush is half price, half an hour before curtain. The B/D/F/M at 47-50 Rockefeller Center is four minutes from 111 West 46th Street. Joe Allen opens at noon on Thursdays for dinner before the show; The Rum House stays open until 1 am for a drink after.