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* ActingForTwo: Darren Ritchie plays both Jack and the Victorian Gentleman.



* CutSong: "Heroes" appears on the cast recording album, but does not appear in the Broadway show.
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* LegacyCharacter: It's not outright stated, but this incarnation of the Mad Hatter is implied to be one to the original Mad Hatter in her VillainSong, which would explain the AdaptationalVillainy and GenderFlip.
-->'''Mad Hatter''': ''The old Hatter is gone, but the hat must go on.''
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''Wonderland: A New Alice'', formerly called ''Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure'', is a musical with a book by Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. The story, a contemporary version of the novels ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass'' by Creator/LewisCarroll.

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''Wonderland: A New Alice'', formerly called ''Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure'', and often shortened to just ''Wonderland'', is a musical with a book by Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. The story, a contemporary version of the novels ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass'' by Creator/LewisCarroll.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Morris the March Hare turns against the Hatter the moment he becomes outnumbered by the heroes.

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* HeelFaceTurn: Morris [[spoiler:Morris the March Hare turns against the Hatter the moment he becomes outnumbered by the heroes. heroes.]]

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''Wonderland: A New Alice'', formerly called ''Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure'', is a musical with a book by Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. The story, a contemporary version of the novels ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass'' by Creator/LewisCarroll, is set in New York City and focuses on writer Alice Cornwinkle and her 10-year-old daughter Chloe.

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''Wonderland: A New Alice'', formerly called ''Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure'', is a musical with a book by Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. The story, a contemporary version of the novels ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass'' by Creator/LewisCarroll, is set Creator/LewisCarroll.

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in modern-day New York City and focuses on writer City, Alice Cornwinkle is an aspiring author. She has just made the decision to split from her husband and her 10-year-old moved their young daughter Chloe.
Chloe to an apartment in Queens when she follows the White Rabbit into a service elevator that takes her to Wonderland.



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* ActingForTwo: Darren Ritchie plays both Jack and the Victorian Gentleman.
* AdaptationalVillainy: {{The Mad Hatter}} and the March Hare become the main antagonists.
* AgeLift: Alice is a fully-grown woman with a daughter of her own.
* AllJustADream: As in the original story, Alice's journey in Wonderland was imagined in the end, as a result of bumping her head at the top of the show.
* AndYouWereThere: Jack the White Knight is a Wonderland version of Alice's husband Jack, who appears when she returns to reality.
* AscendedExtra: The White Knight from ''Through the Looking Glass'' is made {{The Hero}} and {{Promoted to Love Interest}}.
* AuthorGuestSpot: Creator/LewisCarroll appears as a character in the second act, though he is credited as "The Victorian Gentlemen."
* BadassBoast: [[VillainSong I Will Prevail]] is one big one for the Mad Hatter.
---> ''I am the ending of your tragic fairy tale!''
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: What the Hatter does to those she imprisons in the Land of the Looking Glass.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: A trait shared by Jack the White Knight and Alice's husband Jack. His self-professed "white knight syndrome" is the cause of their marriage problems, and the reason they split at the top of the show. When she imagines him in Wonderland, he is a literal White Knight with a martyr complex.
* CutSong: "Heroes" appears on the cast recording album, but does not appear in the Broadway show.
* DistantDuet: "Home", with Alice lost in Wonderland, and her daughter still in their apartment in Queens.
* DownTheRabbitHole: Alice decends to Wonderland in a falling service elevator.  
* TheDulcineaEffect: Jack declares himself to be Alice's {{Knight in Shining Armor}} only seconds after meeting her, delighted to have met an apparent {{Damsel in Distress}}.
* FiveManBand: Alice, Jack the White Knight, the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, and El Gato.
* GenderFlip: The Mad Hatter is a woman, to Alice's surprise.
* HeelFaceTurn: Morris the March Hare turns against the Hatter the moment he becomes outnumbered by the heroes.
* HeroicSacrifice: Jack dreams of having one of these. [[spoiler:He finally gets his wish at the climax, taken down with the Hatter when she is banished to the land beneath Wonderland, to save Alice from the same fate.]]
* HomesicknessHymn: "Home", and its reprises.
---> ''How I wish that I could feel that somehow, right now''
---> ''How I wish that I could feel that again''
---> ''How I wish you could remember, just once, right now''
---> ''Maybe we'll find it again''
* SettingUpdate: Alice lives in modern-day New York City.
* TimeMaster: The White Rabbit, courtesy of his watch.
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The original Broadway cast starred Janet Dacal as Alice, Darren Ritchie as Jack the White Knight and the Victorian Gentleman, Kate Shindle as the Mad Hatter, E. Clayton Cornelious as the Caterpillar, Jose Llana as El Gato, Edward Staudenmayer as the White Rabbit, Carly Rose Sonenclar as Chloe, Karen Mason as the Queen of Hearts, and Danny Stiles as Morris the March Hare.
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''Wonderland: A New Alice'', formerly called ''Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure'', is a musical with a book by Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd, lyrics by Murphy, and music by Frank Wildhorn. The story, a contemporary version of the novels ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and ''Through the Looking-Glass'' by Creator/LewisCarroll, is set in New York City and focuses on writer Alice Cornwinkle and her 10-year-old daughter Chloe.

After various workshops and productions of the musical in Tampa, Florida and Houston, Texas, the show premiered on Broadway on April 17, 2011, closing a month later, on May 15, 2011.


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