Meet the Company & Catch a Sneak Peek of ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE

Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World. The new Jimmy Buffett musical, Escape to Margaritaville, will open here at the Marquee Theater on March 15th

And we drop by to bring you a sneak peek and to meet the company. And the reason that we're standing in this room together, the indomitable Jimmy Buffett

The writers have done, and what Greg and Mike and what you have done, is put together a group of songs that a lot of them are traditional to my following and my fans

but other things you put in here I never thought would be in the show

and are working in ways that I never even conceived of when I composed

Just a few good friends It's a story about a guy who works in a beach bar

who knows how to live life in the moment and a woman who wants to change the world

and watching them teach each other, find love now, and also make sure your life matters

People are going to party hard and they're going to have a great time. This is a great show

Our set just kind of explodes at you, as does the show

I think that it gives you everything you want. Obviously you had to have

Margaritaville, you had to have Finns, and you had to have Cheeseburger And so I think we knew that at the beginning those three songs had to be in there you know i think one of the things we wanted to make sure from the beginning uh is that these songs when they sung they not just shoehorned in there you know i mean that

was uh one thing that was very important to us that people would just seamlessly these songs fit

in the story that we're telling of any musical that you go see normally people do not encourage

you to sing along even if you do know the music people would look at you like what are you doing

but in this show you can kind of sing along What do you hope audiences take away

I hope they take away the good sort of goodwill that he puts out there

about sort of seizing the moment, living in the moment, living your truth, and being relaxed enough to be able to enjoy

A lot of times you do a show and you're in the run of it and sometimes you're having a bad day and you come to the theater

and it is impossible to stay in a bad mood when you're here and around these people and this cast and on this set and doing the show

Whenever you do these things, you're like, oh, we're having so much fun and everybody's so great

But that really is the case. We really are goofing around all the time in a productive way

But I think that starts at the top from Jimmy's sort of laissez-faire kind of lifestyle

and I think we've all embraced that