Concert
Opening Night at Symphony
All-Bernstein Program
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Conductor
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
Frederica Von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Julia Bullock, soprano
Symphony Hall, Boston
September 22, 2017
A wonderful, lively tribute to Leonard Bernstein as composer kicks off the season celebrating the centennial of his birth.
Merrily We Roll Along
Musical (1981)
Music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Based on the original play by George S, Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Maria Friedman
Music Director and Conductor: Matthew Stern
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston University Theater
Symphony Hall area, Boston
September 8 – October 15, 2017
A stunningly good production of the Sondheim musical from the early 1980s which flopped originally on Broadway but found new life in London in the early 1990s.
Gypsy
Musical (1959)
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by memoirs of
Gypsy Rose Lee
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
September 1 – October 8, 2017
A robust revival of the classic Broadway musical about the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her forceful stage mother.
Constellations
Play (2012)
by Nick Payne
Directed by Scott Edmiston
Central Square Theater
September 7 – October 8, 2017
With Marianna Bassham, Nael Nacer
A play about the cosmic possibility of multiple outcomes, featuring a romance between a cosmologist and a beekeeper, brought to life by two of Boston’s most compelling actors.
Reversible
Performance
Circus
Directed, Written and
Choreographed by Gypsy Snider
The 7 Fingers
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
Theater District, Boston
September 6 – 24, 2017
An exquisitely conceived, choreographed and performed piece of acrobatic theater – touched lightly with narrative – by the ever-innovative Montreal circus troupe.