Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Musical Theatre West's 2009-2010 Season
Musical Theatre West will offer an unforgettable season of musicals in its 2009-2010 season, beginning with Meet Me In St. Louis (October 30 – November 13, 2009). Richard Israel will direct, Lee Martino choreographs and musical direction is by Daniel Thomas. Based on the heartwarming movie starring Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis is a rare musical theater treasure featuring classic favorite songs, “The Boy Next Door,” “The Trolley Song,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
Up next is Jonathan Larson’s Rent (December 11 – 20) directed by Nick DeGruccio with musical direction by Michael Paternostro. Rent tells the story of a group of young artists in New York City’s East Village, too poor to pay the rent, yet too alive and rebellious to conform to the system, and is based on Puccini’s La Boheme.
Sweeney Todd, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler will follow (January 29 – February 12, 2010). The Demon Barber of Fleet Street rides again, hell-bent on revenge and up to no good with the help of his enterprising neighbor Mrs. Lovett.
Rounding out the season are Roger Bean’s The Marvelous Wonderettes (April 16 – May 2, 2010), which takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts, and 1776 (July 9 – 25, 2010) by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone, which celebrates the founding of the United States.
For more information go to http://www.musical.org/.
