Two Cities (musical) going on to play Arwen in the London premiere of the stage musical based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". The original cast for the musical: Two Cities (musical) Two Cities is a 2006 stage musical by Howard Goodall based on the 1859 novel "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. The music and lyrics were written by Goodall, and the book was co-written by Goodall and Joanna Read. Unlike the novel, which is set in the French Revolution, the musical is set in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the "two cities" of the title are not
A Tale of Two Cities the end of the novel, Dickens foresees a resurrected social order in France, rising from the ashes of the old one. Hans Biedermann writes that water "is the fundamental symbol of all the energy of the unconscious—an energy that can be dangerous when it overflows its proper limits (a frequent dream sequence)." This symbolism suits Dickens's novel; in "A Tale of Two Cities", the frequent images of water stand for the building anger of the peasant mob, an anger that Dickens sympathizes with to a point, but ultimately finds irrational and even animalistic. Early in the book, Dickens suggests this