Play with Music (1941)
by Moss Hart
Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Produced by Anneke Reich
Directed by Abby Armstrong
Brandeis Theater Company
Senior Thesis Festival 2013
Spingold Theater Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
April 10, 12, 2013
A delightful and adept rendition of a wonderful, somewhat obscure, musical play – about a powerful magazine editor in a state of personal transition – crafted by a trio of theatrical greats — Moss Hart, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.
Musicals
Marry Me A Little
Musical Revue (1981)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Sondheim
Conceived and Developed
by Craig Lucas and Norman Rene
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 6 – 27, 2013
A delightful, compact repackaging of a collection of Sondheim songs that almost made it into various of his shows.
Pippin
Musical (1972)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hirson
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
December 5, 2012 –
January 20, 2013
A revival of the 70s musical, putatively about Charlemagne’s son, but mostly about growing up, enhanced by the wonderful circus arts of Les 7 Doigts de la Main from Montreal.
The Mikado
Operetta
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
September 7 – October 13, 2012
The Gilbert and Sullivan hit based on Japanese themes, colorfully done in an intimate setting, with lots of topical lyrics inserted into the original.
A Class Act
Music and Lyrics by
Edward Kleban
Book by
Linda Kline and Lonny Price
Berkshire Theatre Group
Unicorn Theatre
Stockbridge, MA
July 14 – August 4, 2012
The story of Edward Kleban, lyricist for A Chorus Line, told through his own clever words and distinctive music.