THE TUNNEL - A New Musical
Book/Lyrics by Vincent Paul Boyle
Music by Joe O'Keefe
The Tunnel is a rock musical exploration of Joseph Campbell’s Hero Myth, Hollywood’s favored storytelling template of the last twenty-five years. Set amidst the reality of NYC’s Mole People, the homeless population that live underground in abandoned subway tunnels, this contemporary musical centers around a jaded journalist who becomes entwined in a young woman’s search for the details regarding the mysterious history of a father she never knew.
Campbell’s familiar archetypes such as The Ally, The Mentor, The Oracle, The Threshold Guardian, The Shadow and others appear as part of the fabric of New York’s underground secret that ultimately unfold in a quest for truth. The Tunnel is a fantasy that veers relentlessly between the many forms of mythical storytelling: Greek, urban, religious, and folkloric. As the fine line between hunter and hunted blurs, this new musical ascends...by descending beneath the streets of New York City.
