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 they can be certain of harvesting that revolution in time. The lower classes do not have any agency in this metaphor: they simply react to the behaviour of the aristocracy. In this sense it can be said that while Dickens sympathizes with the poor, he identifies with the rich: they are the book's audience, its "us" and not its "them". "Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according