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Apr 9, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — Huge waves couldn’t stop Tori Murden McClure from becoming the first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo in 1999. So it’s only fitting that a global pandemic couldn’t stop a musical about her feat from making it to audiences — just not the way it was originally intended. “Row,” which was scheduled to make its stage debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in the summer 2020, is instead making its world premiere this month as a recording available on Audible. “This whole process has been like a slow blossoming,” said D...

The pandemic ruined one musical's debut plans. Not for long by Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press Posted Apr 8, 2021 10:21 am EDT Last Updated Apr 8, 2021 at 10:28 am EDT FILE - Rower Tori Murden appears aboard her 23-foot, American Pearl, in Bas-du-Fort in Guadeloupe on Dec. 3, 1999. A musical about Murden, who was the first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo, was supposed to make its stage debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in the summer 2020. But due to the global pandemic, it is instead making its world premiere this month as a recording available on A...

Mark Kennedy FILE - Rower Tori Murden, of Louisville, Ky., waves from her boat off North Carolina's Outer Banks, near Nags Head, N.C. , on June 14, 1998. A musical about Murden, who was the first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo in 1999, was supposed to make its stage debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in the summer 2020. But due to the global pandemic, it is instead making its world premiere this month as a recording available on Audible. (AP Photo/Bob Jordan, File) April 08, 2021 - 7:45 AM NEW YORK - Huge waves couldn't stop...