Grey Gardens at Theatre Works!
Today, Theatre Works announced their 2008-09 season at the party for subscribers. My friend is attending now but told me that the season will be announced on the web site too. So here it is:
Snapshots
Conceived by Michael Scheman and David Stern
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by David Stern
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Three Oscars, five Grammys, and a bevy of Broadway hits--and now Stephen Schwartz reinvents the musical with the help of a photo album filled with memories. Part revue, part comedy, part poignant drama, Snapshots is the chronicle of a marriage that’s lost its way, only to discover its depth in the passages of the past. Mixing his cherished hits with a wealth of original songs, the author of Wicked, Godspell, and Pippin makes the messed-up minefield of love into a triumph of the heart. “Few musicals could boast a stronger score.” Talkin’ Broadway
June 18-July 13, 2008
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Doubt
By John Patrick Shanley
PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA & TONY AWARD BEST PLAY 2005
One of the great plays of the decade, this riveting clash of conscience and conviction turns the stuff of headlines into exquisite, engrossing drama. When she suspects a popular and dedicated priest of misconduct with a student, Sister Aloysius takes matters into her own hands. But doubt thwarts all assumptions in this ambiguous mystery, and the truth comes clouded by the complexities of human nature. “#1 show of the year. A terrific new play with astonishing theatricality.” Associated Press
July 16 - August 10, 2008
Lucie Stern Theatre
Grey Gardens
Book by Doug Wright
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Based on the film Grey Gardens by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, and Susan Froemke
OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD BEST OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL 2006
FIRST POST-BROADWAY PRODUCTION
Nominated for eight Tony Awards, this hilarious but heartbreaking Broadway hit chronicles the fall of American royalty: Jacqueline Kennedy’s notorious relatives, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale. In a scandalously beguiling musical about love, loss, and eccentricity at the heights of society, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright chronicles their journey from giddy fortune in the ’40s to seclusion in the ’70s, a bittersweet saga of roads not taken and dreams left unfulfilled. “An experience no passionate theatergoer should miss.” The New York Times
August 20 - September 14, 2008
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Radio Golf
By August Wilson
NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD-BEST PLAY 2007
REGIONAL PREMIERE
Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s inspired final play is a powerful elegy for a lost time, a hustling comedy-drama set in a neglected Pittsburgh neighborhood at the twilight of the 20th century, 1997. There, a charismatic African American politician is running for Mayor, caught between the fresh-faced spirit of the future and the soulful voices of the past. Must he give up his song to fulfill his dreams? His hopes to protect his heritage? Acclaimed actor Aldo Billingslea (The Elephant Man) stars in the role of a lifetime. Contains mature language. “A passion for gorgeous writing…his most contemporary and accessible work.” Newsday
October 8 - November 2, 2008
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Long Story Short
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda
Based on the play An Infinite Ache by David Schulner
CO-WORLD PREMIERE
with City Theatre
A roller-coaster romance from the creators of TheatreWorks’ smash holiday hit STRIKING 12: The GrooveLily Holiday Show, this infinitely charming new musical transcends two twenty-something’s disastrous first date to whirl, for better or worse, into a lifetime of love. Funny, poignant, and dazzlingly theatrical, it careens from first love to last kiss, reckoning the costs, the compromises, and the enduring promise of an affair you will always remember, a passion you won’t soon forget. Contains mature language.
December 3-28, 2008
Lucie Stern Theatre
Twentieth Century
By Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Based on a play by Charles Bruce Milholland
Adapted by Ken Ludwig
REGIONAL PREMIERE
Broadway ballyhoo meets Hollywood hustle aboard the Twentieth Century Limited, the legendary locomotive that plays streamlined host to this classic screwball comedy from the 1930s. Polished to a deco sparkle by Tony Award-winning farceur Ken Ludwig, it matches an on-the-outs impresario with a mercurial silver screen starlet in a madcap battle of the sexes, hurtling from havoc to hilarity on the disorient express. “A thrilling funhouse ride!” The New Yorker
January 14-February 8, 2009
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
By Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor, and Dan Wheetman
TONY AWARD NOMINEE BEST MUSICAL 1999
REGIONAL PREMIERE
This sizzling, red-hot Broadway hit is a foot-stomping, high-voltage journey in song. From African chants and Delta spirituals to the urban electricity of a Chicago nightclub, from dusty backroad bluegrass to the twang of a country juke joint, it is a stirring retrospective of blues classics that summon the soul of American music. Told with historical sweep and irresistible energy, this Tony Award nominee is guaranteed to jar the floor, raise the roof, and kick-start your heart. “Rich, evocative, rousing…it’s more than a musical feast.” The New York Times
March 11-April 5, 2009
Lucie Stern Theatre
Distracted
By Lisa Loomer
REGIONAL PREMIERE
Jesse’s got problems. Mom needs to solve them. At school, at home, this plugged-in kid is easily distracted and readily riled-just like his anxious parents, the neurotic neighbors, the clue-challenged doctors, the whole revved-up, wacked-out webcast of modern life. Could it be Attention Deficit Disorder? And what if it is? Honest, insightful, and hilariously offbeat, this LA/Ashland hit by the author of Living Out is a dramedy for our times, texting for answers in a world too frazzled to text back. Contains mature language. “A passionate emotional journey…moves with impressive comic swiftness.” Los Angeles Times
April 1-26, 2009
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
I'm definitely excited to see GG on the line up. Actually I might do mini-subscription this year. I'm already going to see "Doubt" twice in Sacramento, so if I see it at TW, I'd see the same play by three different theatre companies. That would be my first.
Snapshots
Conceived by Michael Scheman and David Stern
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by David Stern
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Three Oscars, five Grammys, and a bevy of Broadway hits--and now Stephen Schwartz reinvents the musical with the help of a photo album filled with memories. Part revue, part comedy, part poignant drama, Snapshots is the chronicle of a marriage that’s lost its way, only to discover its depth in the passages of the past. Mixing his cherished hits with a wealth of original songs, the author of Wicked, Godspell, and Pippin makes the messed-up minefield of love into a triumph of the heart. “Few musicals could boast a stronger score.” Talkin’ Broadway
June 18-July 13, 2008
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Doubt
By John Patrick Shanley
PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA & TONY AWARD BEST PLAY 2005
One of the great plays of the decade, this riveting clash of conscience and conviction turns the stuff of headlines into exquisite, engrossing drama. When she suspects a popular and dedicated priest of misconduct with a student, Sister Aloysius takes matters into her own hands. But doubt thwarts all assumptions in this ambiguous mystery, and the truth comes clouded by the complexities of human nature. “#1 show of the year. A terrific new play with astonishing theatricality.” Associated Press
July 16 - August 10, 2008
Lucie Stern Theatre
Grey Gardens
Book by Doug Wright
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Based on the film Grey Gardens by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, and Susan Froemke
OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD BEST OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL 2006
FIRST POST-BROADWAY PRODUCTION
Nominated for eight Tony Awards, this hilarious but heartbreaking Broadway hit chronicles the fall of American royalty: Jacqueline Kennedy’s notorious relatives, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale. In a scandalously beguiling musical about love, loss, and eccentricity at the heights of society, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright chronicles their journey from giddy fortune in the ’40s to seclusion in the ’70s, a bittersweet saga of roads not taken and dreams left unfulfilled. “An experience no passionate theatergoer should miss.” The New York Times
August 20 - September 14, 2008
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Radio Golf
By August Wilson
NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD-BEST PLAY 2007
REGIONAL PREMIERE
Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s inspired final play is a powerful elegy for a lost time, a hustling comedy-drama set in a neglected Pittsburgh neighborhood at the twilight of the 20th century, 1997. There, a charismatic African American politician is running for Mayor, caught between the fresh-faced spirit of the future and the soulful voices of the past. Must he give up his song to fulfill his dreams? His hopes to protect his heritage? Acclaimed actor Aldo Billingslea (The Elephant Man) stars in the role of a lifetime. Contains mature language. “A passion for gorgeous writing…his most contemporary and accessible work.” Newsday
October 8 - November 2, 2008
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Long Story Short
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda
Based on the play An Infinite Ache by David Schulner
CO-WORLD PREMIERE
with City Theatre
A roller-coaster romance from the creators of TheatreWorks’ smash holiday hit STRIKING 12: The GrooveLily Holiday Show, this infinitely charming new musical transcends two twenty-something’s disastrous first date to whirl, for better or worse, into a lifetime of love. Funny, poignant, and dazzlingly theatrical, it careens from first love to last kiss, reckoning the costs, the compromises, and the enduring promise of an affair you will always remember, a passion you won’t soon forget. Contains mature language.
December 3-28, 2008
Lucie Stern Theatre
Twentieth Century
By Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Based on a play by Charles Bruce Milholland
Adapted by Ken Ludwig
REGIONAL PREMIERE
Broadway ballyhoo meets Hollywood hustle aboard the Twentieth Century Limited, the legendary locomotive that plays streamlined host to this classic screwball comedy from the 1930s. Polished to a deco sparkle by Tony Award-winning farceur Ken Ludwig, it matches an on-the-outs impresario with a mercurial silver screen starlet in a madcap battle of the sexes, hurtling from havoc to hilarity on the disorient express. “A thrilling funhouse ride!” The New Yorker
January 14-February 8, 2009
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
By Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor, and Dan Wheetman
TONY AWARD NOMINEE BEST MUSICAL 1999
REGIONAL PREMIERE
This sizzling, red-hot Broadway hit is a foot-stomping, high-voltage journey in song. From African chants and Delta spirituals to the urban electricity of a Chicago nightclub, from dusty backroad bluegrass to the twang of a country juke joint, it is a stirring retrospective of blues classics that summon the soul of American music. Told with historical sweep and irresistible energy, this Tony Award nominee is guaranteed to jar the floor, raise the roof, and kick-start your heart. “Rich, evocative, rousing…it’s more than a musical feast.” The New York Times
March 11-April 5, 2009
Lucie Stern Theatre
Distracted
By Lisa Loomer
REGIONAL PREMIERE
Jesse’s got problems. Mom needs to solve them. At school, at home, this plugged-in kid is easily distracted and readily riled-just like his anxious parents, the neurotic neighbors, the clue-challenged doctors, the whole revved-up, wacked-out webcast of modern life. Could it be Attention Deficit Disorder? And what if it is? Honest, insightful, and hilariously offbeat, this LA/Ashland hit by the author of Living Out is a dramedy for our times, texting for answers in a world too frazzled to text back. Contains mature language. “A passionate emotional journey…moves with impressive comic swiftness.” Los Angeles Times
April 1-26, 2009
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
I'm definitely excited to see GG on the line up. Actually I might do mini-subscription this year. I'm already going to see "Doubt" twice in Sacramento, so if I see it at TW, I'd see the same play by three different theatre companies. That would be my first.