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The Last Five Years

December 9, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

The Last Five Years

Musical (2001)
Written and composed by Jason Robert Brown
Lyric Stage
Copley Square area, Boston
November 12 – December 12, 2021

With Jared Troilo and Kira Troilo
Jamie and Cathy are getting divorced, or maybe they are getting married, or both. That’s the way it is in this poignant two-person musical in which one character goes forward and the other backward in time.

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

February 13, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Cast

Musical (1967)
Book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado
Music by Galt Macdermot

Directed and choreographed by Rachel Bertone
New Repertory Theatre
Mosesian Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 26 – February 23, 2020

A remounting of the original hippie musical which saw its release on Broadway fifty-two years ago.

Parade

December 12, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Leo Lucille

Musical (1998)
Music and lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry

An excellent production of the musical based on a true story about Leo Frank, a Jew who was unjustly indicted for a murder in Atlanta in 1914.

Moby Dick: A Musical Reckoning

December 11, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Daggoo

Musical (2019)
Music, Lyrics, Book and Orchestrations by Dave Malloy
Based on the novel by
Herman Melville

Developed with and directed by Rachel Chavrin
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 3, 2019 –
January 12, 2020

A freewheeling musical adaptation of the great American novel.

Little Shop of Horrors

September 19, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Little Shop

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.

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