Musical (1986)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
Music Direction by
Catherine Stornetta
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston, MA
May 9 – June 29, 2014
A lively production of the celebrated quasi-Jungian Sondheim-Lapine fairy-tale extravaganza.
Musicals
Abe Lincoln’s Piano
Concert, Play, Performance
Written and performed by
Hershey Felder
ArtsEmerson
Emerson-Majestic Theater, Boston
May 20 – 31, 2014
A touchingly evocative, musically enhanced account of the life and death of Lincoln, told mainly through the character of the young doctor who attended to him at his death.
The Book of Mormon
Musical (2011)
By Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
The Boston Opera House, Boston
Through April 27, 2014
The wacky, wonderful, completely irreverent – and somehow also quite reverent – musical about Mormons, Ugandans, and religious creativity – by the duo who gained prominence as creators of television’s South Park.
Hello, Again
Musical (2014)
Book. lyrics and music by
Michael John Lachiusa
Directed by Michael Bello
Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston, MA
March 12 – 29, 2014
A beautifully produced cabaret-style musical built around a string of poignant erotic vignettes.
Brundibar and But The Giraffe!
Play (1938)
Music by Hans Krása
Libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister
Adapted by Tony Kushner (2005)
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Underground Railway Theater
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
March 6 – April 6, 2014
An adaptation of Brundibar, the imaginative musical written and performed at the Terezin concentration camp during World War II, with the contextual tale written by Tony Kushner, But The Giraffe!, set in a household on the verge of deportation.