Lincoln Center's New Season Is Women on the Verge, A Free Man of Color and War Horse
Lincoln Center Theater announced three Broadway productions for the 2010-11 season, including John Guare's A Free Man of Color, the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the American premiere of the acclaimed British play War Horse.
LCT's long-running production of South Pacific will close at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on the Lincoln Center campus on Aug. 22. The Beaumont, a Broadway house, will be home to the 1802-set historical drama by Guare in the fall and War Horse, about a heroic horse during World War I, in the spring of 2011.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, by the writers of the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will play Broadway's Belasco Theatre, a favorite off-campus venue of LCT. The theatre on West 44th Street is currently being renovated.
Women on the Verge will launch the season with a first preview of Oct. 2 toward an opening night of Nov. 4. Inspired by the 1988 film by Pedro Almodóvar film, the show has a book by Jeffrey Lane, music and lyrics by David Yazbek and direction by Bartlett Sher (South Pacific). The musical "is set in late 20th-century Madrid and tells the story of the intertwining lives of a group of women whose relationships with men lead to a tumultuous 48 hours of love, confusion and passion."
A Free Man of Color will be directed by George C. Wolfe. Previews begin Oct. 21 toward a Nov. 18 opening at the Beaumont. The play is billed as "a freewheeling epic set in 1802 New Orleans," where "Jacques Cornet, the title character, is a new world Don Juan and the wealthiest inhabitant of this sexually charged and racially progressive city. Jacques thinks all is well in his paradise until history intervenes, setting off a chain of events which no one, much less this free man of color, realizes is about to splinter the world."
LCT will then team with the National Theatre of Great Britain, in association with Bob Boyett, to present the U.S. premiere of the National Theatre's critically acclaimed production of War Horse, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo and adapted by Nick Stafford, with direction by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris. It will begin performances at the Vivian Beaumont March 17, 2011, with an opening night scheduled for April 14, 2011.
According to LCT, "At the outbreak of World War I, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. He's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a mission to find him and bring him home."
LCT's 2010-2011 Off-Broadway season - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and LCT3 productions - will be announced at a later date. The designers for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and A Free Man of Color, and casting for all three productions, will be announced at a later date.
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LCT's long-running production of South Pacific will close at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on the Lincoln Center campus on Aug. 22. The Beaumont, a Broadway house, will be home to the 1802-set historical drama by Guare in the fall and War Horse, about a heroic horse during World War I, in the spring of 2011.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, by the writers of the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will play Broadway's Belasco Theatre, a favorite off-campus venue of LCT. The theatre on West 44th Street is currently being renovated.
Women on the Verge will launch the season with a first preview of Oct. 2 toward an opening night of Nov. 4. Inspired by the 1988 film by Pedro Almodóvar film, the show has a book by Jeffrey Lane, music and lyrics by David Yazbek and direction by Bartlett Sher (South Pacific). The musical "is set in late 20th-century Madrid and tells the story of the intertwining lives of a group of women whose relationships with men lead to a tumultuous 48 hours of love, confusion and passion."
A Free Man of Color will be directed by George C. Wolfe. Previews begin Oct. 21 toward a Nov. 18 opening at the Beaumont. The play is billed as "a freewheeling epic set in 1802 New Orleans," where "Jacques Cornet, the title character, is a new world Don Juan and the wealthiest inhabitant of this sexually charged and racially progressive city. Jacques thinks all is well in his paradise until history intervenes, setting off a chain of events which no one, much less this free man of color, realizes is about to splinter the world."
LCT will then team with the National Theatre of Great Britain, in association with Bob Boyett, to present the U.S. premiere of the National Theatre's critically acclaimed production of War Horse, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo and adapted by Nick Stafford, with direction by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris. It will begin performances at the Vivian Beaumont March 17, 2011, with an opening night scheduled for April 14, 2011.
According to LCT, "At the outbreak of World War I, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. He's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a mission to find him and bring him home."
LCT's 2010-2011 Off-Broadway season - Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and LCT3 productions - will be announced at a later date. The designers for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and A Free Man of Color, and casting for all three productions, will be announced at a later date.
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