Musicals

Musical (1982)
Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Based on the film (1960) by Roger Corman
Screenplay by Charles Griffith
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
August 30 – October 6, 2019
An exuberant and wonderfully staged revival of the show about a flower shop with a plant that eats humans.

Musical (2005)
Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music by Bob Gaudio
Lyrics by Bob Crewe
North Shore Music Theatre
Beverly, MA
August 6 – September 1, 2019
A lively and fun version of the musical about rock and roll phenomena Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

Musical (2016)
Book, Music and Lyrics by
Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour
Directed by Taibi Magar
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
May 14 – June 23, 2019
A brilliant and explosively energetic account of the Arab Spring demonstrations in Cairo in 2011, and a more subdued account of the more dismal sequelae.

Musical (1976)
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Direction by
Jonathan Goldberg
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
May 10 – June 16, 2019
A superb production of the offbeat Sondheim musical about the abrupt entry by the United States into Japan in the mid-nineteenth century.

Musical (2011)
Book by Enda Walsh
Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Inglova
Based on the motion picture (2011)
Written and directed by John Carney
Directed by Paul Melone
Speakeasy Stage Company
March 1 – April 7, 2019
A wonderfully produced rendition of the musical based on the film about an Irish songwriter street musician and the Czech woman who inspires him.