Musical (1950)
Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling
Directed and Choreographed by Ceit Zwell
Music directed by Dan Rodriguez
Greater Boston Stage Company
Stoneham, MA
June 7-30, 2024
A beautifully and intimately staged version of the classic about love in the world of gamblers and moral reformers.
Musicals
Crazy for You
Musical (1992)
Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Book by Ken Ludwig
Director: Angelique Ilo
Ogunquit Playhouse
Ogunquit, ME
June 13 – July 13, 2024
A totally delightful and wonderfully staged version of the relatively recent musical adapted from much earlier Gershwin musicals and containing a large number of their songs.
Next To Normal
Musical (2008)
Music by Tom Kitt
Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed and choreographed by Pascale Florestal
Music direction by Katie Bickford
Central Square Theater
The Front Porch Arts Collective
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
May 30 – June 20, 2024
A superlative production of the musical about a family in which personal loss and mental illness take severe tolls.
Gatsby
Musical (2024)
Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett
Lyrics by Florence Welch
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
May 26 – August 3, 2024
A new musical based on the novel about distressed loves and fatefully complicated lives.
Fiddler on the Roof
Musical (1964)
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by Robert W. Schneider
North Shore Music Theatre
Beverly, MA
June 4-16, 2024
A lively and beautifully staged version of the now classic musical about Jewish life in a small village in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century.