ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE
September 10 - October 3, 2010
Book by Paul Scott Goodman and Miriam Goodman
Music and Lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman
Regional Premiere
Recipient of 5 Helen Hayes Award Nominations
3 Outer Critics Circle Nominations
ROOMS: A Rock Romance, opens in late 1970's Glasgow, when Monica, an ambitious singer/songwriter meets Ian, a reclusive rocker. Their lives quickly become entangled, creatively and romantically. Their music takes them first to London and, ultimately, to New York City, where they discover the vibrant new music scene and create an intimate partnership, which finds them falling in love, even as their personalities drive them apart. Their search for the balance between ambition and happiness, set to the accompaniment of a five-piece rock band, makes for a compelling love story that packed audiences with it's New York run.
GAY BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
October 15 - 31, 2010
Book by Dane Leeman and Billy Butler
Music and Lyrics by Billy Butler
Professional World Premiere!
Winner of 7 Spotlight Awards including: Best Musical, Best Original Script, Best Ensemble Production
NY Musical Theatre Festival Top Selection
TalkinBroadway.com's top 10 cast albums of 2009 with such shows as Next to Normal and Shrek
A graphic novel comes alive on stage when Edna, Chloe, Hairy and Thad stumble into a night of rock music that can raise the dead! Will the girl get the girl? Never has there been a Halloween love story like this — with mystery, magic and a cartoon caper that will scare you silly.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, A Musical Ghost Story*
December 3 – 26, 2010
Adapted from the Charles Dickens novella by Jon Kimbell
Original Lyrics by Jon Kimbell Original Music by Alby Potts and James Woodland
WINNER of the Moss Hart Memorial Award 2010 People's Choice Spotlight Award for BEST MUSICAL
The Rep's new holiday tradition is a music-filled charmer that will warm the heart and eliminate the humbugs. Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Past, Present and Future. They change his destiny and save his soul as he discovers the true meaning of the Christmas season
ORPHANS
February 4 – 27, 2011
By Lyle Kessler
Winner! Drama-Logue Award
ORPHANS follows the plight of two orphaned brothers living hand to mouth in Philadelphia. One supports them both by thieving on a daily basis. This tentative existence is interrupted by Harold, a middle-aged man whose sudden appearance propels the three men into a journey of self-discovery that irrevocably changes the status quo.
RABBIT HOLE
March 11 – April 3, 2011
By David Lindsay-Abairr
WINNER! Pulitzer Prize for Drama
5 Tony Award Nominations
Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
MAN OF LA MANCHA
April 22 – May 15, 2011
Book by Dale Wasserman
Lyrics by Joe Darion and Music by Mitch Leigh
WINNER! 7 Tony Awards
3 Drama Desk Awards
This timeless and beloved classic is based on Cervantes' "Don Quixote." It tells the poignant story of a dying old man, whose impossible dream takes over his mind. It's songs, "All the Same," "Dulcinea,"" I'm Only Thinking of Him," and, of course, "The Impossible Dream," will linger in your thoughts and in your soul long after you've seen the show. His dream is the dream of Everyman and, whether you are seeing this classic of modern American musical theater again, or for the very first time, you will discover anew why THE MAN OF LaMANCHA, as re-imagined for the Rep's uniquely intimate space, speaks for everyone in every time and place.
PRODUCER'S CHOICE
June 17 – July 11, 2011
We are currently in negotiations to bring you one of three sizzling, new Broadway musicals never before performed in our region. We can't tell you just yet what this show will be, but we PROMISE you will not be disappointed...stay tuned!
HAIRSPRAY
July 22 – August 28, 2011
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Whittman and Shaimen
Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
WINNER! 9 Tony Awards
2 Critics Circle Awards
6 Olivier Awards
HAIRSPRAY will sweep you away to 1960's Baltimore, where the 50's are out and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight, she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen ce- lebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair?
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