Musical (2012)
Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Book by Peter Duchan
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
May 7 – June 5, 2016
A musical adaptation of the 1991 film of the same name about Marines about to go off to Vietnam in 1963 who engage in a heartless and hurtful stunt and a relationship which arises out of that.
Musicals
H.M.S. Pinafore
Operetta (1878)
by W.S. Gilbert and
Arthur Sullivan
Co-Adapted by Sean Graney,
Andra Velis Simon and Matt Kahler
Directed by Sean Graney
Music Directed by
Andra Velis Simon
Oberon at American Repertory Theater
in association with The Hypocrites
Oberon Theater, Arrow Street,
Harvard Square, Cambridge
March 8 – 20, 2016
Gilbert and Sulli-fun to the max, with lots of original material, but done up and recharged in all sorts of ways, entertaining and musically tight.
Sondheim on Sondheim
Musical (2010)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Conceived by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
January 15 – February 21, 2016
An exquisitely good film-enhanced musical production exhibiting the work and life of one of musical theater’s greatest lyricists and composers.
Violet
Musical (1997)
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and lyrics by Brian Crawley
Directed by Paul Daigneault
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
January 9 – February 6, 2016
A lively and very well produced musical about a young woman on a bus journey through the South in 1964 to visit a faith healer.
Natasha, Pierre &
The Great Comet of 1812
Musical (2015)
Book, Music and Lyrics by
Dave Malloy
Adapted from War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
American Repertory Theater
Cambridge, MA
December 6, 2015 – January 3, 2016
A wild, woolly, fun ride through the existential landscapes of Tolstoy’s War and Peace: operatic, rockified and rollicking.