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.
Musicals
Once
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.
Onegin
Musical (2016)
by Amiel Gladstone and
Veda Hille
Based on the poem by Pushkin and the opera by Tchaikovsky
U.S. Premiere
Greater Boston Stage Company
Stoneham, MA
March 14-31, 2019
A lightened, musicalized version of the dramatic Pushkin poem and Tchaikovsky opera based on it.
Winter Panto: Paul Bunyan and the Winter of the Blue Snow
Play, Musical (2019)
by Matthew Woods and the Ensemble
Director: Matthew Woods
Imaginary Beasts
Charlestown Working Theater
Charlestown, MA
January 17 – February 10, 2019
A wonderfully rambunctious romp, full of endless gags, word play, and a high degree of energetic fun.
Fun Home
Musical (2013)
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron
Based on the graphic novel by
Alison Bechdel
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Musical Direction by Matthew Stern
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
October 19 – November 24, 2018
A nicely produced version of the Broadway hit based on a graphic novel about growing up gay in a household with a gay father who is in a heterosexual marriage.