A world premiere musical with words and music by 5-time Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa.
Based on the astounding and outrageous true story of Anna Edson Taylor (two-time Tony nominee Mary Testa (Guys and Dolls, Xanadu, 42nd Street) who, in 1901, set out to be the first woman to shoot Niagara Falls in a barrel of her own design. Navigating both the treacherous Falls and a fickle public with a ravenous appetite for sensationalism, this unconventional heroine vies for her legacy in a world clamoring with swindling managers, assassins, revolutionaries, moralizing family, anarchists and activists. Convinced that there is greatness in her and determined not to live as ordinary, she sets out to battle her fear and tempt her fated.