Musicals

Musical (2015)
Book by Jessie Nelson
Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
August 2 – September 27, 2015
An energetic and entertaining musical adaptation based on the 2007 film of the same name about a waitress with a confused personal life, a distinctive talent for baking memorable pies, and two devoted waitress friends.

Musical (2015)
World Premiere
Direction and Choreography by Susan Stroman
Musical Direction by Paul Ford
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge
May 12 – 31, 2015
With Mandy Patinkin, Taylor Mac
A wild ride in song and dance, situated at the end of a globally overcooked world, featuring two incredible showmen playing surviving hobos.

Musical (1989)
Book by Larry Gelbart
Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by David Zippel
Directed by Sprio Veloudos
Music Director Catherine Stornetta
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square Area, Boston
March 27 – May 2, 2015
A noir musical about film writers and their characters in the Hollywood of the 1940s.

Musical
by Robert Brustein
Directed by Matthew ‘Motl’ Didner
Musical arrangements by
Hankus Netsky
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
February 9 – March 8, 2015
A very entertaining and musically exuberant confection about immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side of New York