Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Talkback w/ Tony Award winner Mark Hollman
Fans of Mark Hollmann will have the opportunity to participate with him in a special post-show discussion of his new musical, The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat following the May 17 evening performance. The show is currently running at Chance Theater through May 23, directed by Oanh Nguyen with musical direction by Bill Strongin.
I saw an earlier version of The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat at the Thousand Oaks Festival of New Musicals in 2007 and it is absolutely delightful. Based on the play Dyskolos by Menander, it tells the story of a very dry village in ancient Greece where the owner (the grouch) of the only well in town is torn between protecting his water monopoly and keeping his daughter (the girl) away from the men in town. What about the goat? You’ll have to see the show yourself to figure that one out!
The cast features Brooke Cannons, Armando Gutierrez, Glenn Koppel, Eloise Coppersmith, Paul Karliak, David LaMarr, Sarah Pierce, and Jessie McLean. Hollmann received the Tony Award, the National Broadway Theatre Award, and the Obie Award for his score to Urinetown the Musical, which itself won Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Awards for best musical. For more information, call 714-777-3033 or visit http://www.chancetheater.com/.
