Musical (1990)
Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Musical Direction by David Freeman Coleman
Speakeasy Stage
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
March 11 – April 16, 2022
An exuberant and beautifully produced piece of story theater about a love affair across classes and racial divides on an island in the French Antilles .
Musicals
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
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
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
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.