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New and Noteworthy by Chesley Plemmons
| Note: This page is essentially a preview of area shows you may want to check out. We will be reviewing many but not all. |
Goodspeed Musicals announced plans for the production of The Great American Mousical, to be directed by Julie Andrews. The musical is based on the best-selling book authored by Ms. Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, with illustrations by Tony Walton. It's a developmental production will run November 8 - December 2, 2012 at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut. Season tickets will be available beginning January 16 through the Goodspeed Opera House Box Office. The show will feature a new score with Music by Zina Goldrich and Lyrics by Marcy Heisler, a book by Tony nominee Hunter Bell, choreography by Tony nominee Christopher Gattelli, and sets and costumes designed by Tony Walton.
Good Goods which rounds out the Yale season is billed as an other worldly love story in which amidst the cluttered shelves of a family-owned general store in a small Black town that doesn't appear on any map, four lost souls reunite. Partnerships dissolve, alliances shift, and romances ignite as a tragic accident unleashes the town's mysterious history. From February 3 to February 26, 2012
The Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford (914-592-2222), is always a good bet for fun entertainment. It's a very professional operation from top to bottom-- a dinner theater with good food well served and NEW productions of recent Broadway shows - not road or trunk shows.
At Hartford Stage, 2012 begins with the farce Boeing Boeing from Jan.12 to February 5th. (watch for our review). Next up will be the Connecticut production of Matthew Lopez's civil war play Whipping Man from February 23 - March 18, 2012. (For a Curtainup review of the play go here.
In March, Hartford's new artistic director Darko Tresnjak will be directing John Van Druten's romantic comedy Bell Book and Candle. March 7 to April 1, 2012
Long Wharf . Macbeth 1969 is Associate Artistic Director Eric Ting contemporary new take on Shakespeare's tale. It begins with two soldiers return home injured from war and as a group of nurses at the veterans' hospital tend to their physical and psychological injuries, ghosts of bloody deeds done and horrors inflicted emerge. From January 18 to February 12.
February wll bring an aptly titled world premiere --. February House. It's a musical with songs and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane, book by Seth Bockley, and directed by Davis McCallum. A co-production with the Public Theater. February 15 –March 18, 2012.
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Book of Mormon -CD
Our review of the show
Slings & Arrows-the complete set
You don't have to be a Shakespeare aficionado to love all 21 episodes of this hilarious and moving Canadian TV series about a fictional Shakespeare Company
Book of Mormon -CDOur review of the show
Slings & Arrows-the complete set
You don't have to be a Shakespeare aficionado to love all 21 episodes of this hilarious and moving Canadian TV series about a fictional Shakespeare Company