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SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2007-2008 SEASON
SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 07-08 SEASON
Here is the 2007-2008 SpeakEasy line-up (dates, directors and titles subject to change):
THE HISTORY BOYS
By Alan Bennett
Directed by Scott Edmiston
September 14 – October 20, 2007
Press Performance – Sunday, Sept. 16 – 3PM
New England Premiere!
Winner - 2006 Tony Award - Best Play! To boost his school’s reputation, a British headmaster hires a hotshot young history teacher to groom students for their college exams, pitting the new instructor against the school’s maverick English teacher, who seeks to broaden these students’ horizons in sometimes unorthodox ways. With gentle wit and a pitch-perfect command of character, Alan Bennett has crafted a brilliantly funny play that not only raises universal questions about the nature of history, but also questions the value and meaning of education today.
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Book, Music and Lyrics by Rupert Holmes
Directed by Paul Daigneault
November 16 – December 15, 2007
Press Performance – Sunday, November 18 – 3PM
Winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical, this delightful musical whodunit follows the members of a loony Victorian musical troupe as they endeavor to mount their rendition of the classic yet unfinished Charles Dickens story of the same name. Paul Daigneault will direct this high-spirited show that asks the audience nightly to solve the crime.
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
By Douglas Carter Beane
Directed by Paul Melone
January 11 – February 9, 2008
Press Performance, Sunday, Jan. 13 – 3PM
New England Premiere!
An up-and-coming leading man becomes emotionally entangled with a sexy young drifter and his girlfriend in this hit Broadway comedy from Douglas Carter Beane, author of “As Bees in Honey Drown.” Events take a turn, however, when the actor’s tightly wound agent gets wind of her prize client’s new relationship, and steps in to try to save his – but more importantly her – career in this hilarious satire of all-things Hollywood.
ZANNA, DON’T!
Book, Music and Lyrics by Tim Acito;
Additional Book and Lyrics by Alexander Dinelaris
Directed by Paul Daigneault
March 14– April 12, 2008
Press Performance – Sunday, March 16 – 3PM
New England Premiere!
A 2003 Nominee for Best Off-Broadway Musical, ZANNA DON’T is a musical fairy tale that reminds us all of the importance of love, relationships and accepting people’s differences. Set in a world where gay is the norm, this cleverly satirical show, which features a pop-infused score, chronicles the efforts of Zanna, a match-making teen, to rid the world of heterophobia after his friends Kate and Steve fall hopelessly in love and are “outed” as being straight.
SOME MEN
By Terrence McNally
Directed by TBA
May 16 – June 15, 2008
Press Performance: Sunday, May 18 – 3PM
New England Premiere!
While two men exchange wedding vows, their friends at the ceremony reminisce about their own loves, lives and relationships in this latest comedy from Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally. At once a collage and a celebration, with equal parts heart and wit, the play chronicles some key events in the past 80 years of gay history that have shaped the present day struggle for same-sex marriage.
Subscription Information
Subscriptions for SpeakEasy’s 2007-2008 Season go on sale Friday, May 18. Information on different membership packages can be obtained by calling the Boston Theatre Scene box office at 617-933-8600 or via email at info@SpeakEasyStage.com.
Special Events:
MUSICAL WORKSHOP – THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS
As part of a grant received by the National Alliance of Musical Theatre, SpeakEasy will host New York City songwriters Brian Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan for a week-long workshop of their musical THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS. Set in a noisy present-day New York, the show tells the story of two warring neighbors -- one a physicist and the other a violinist – who develop a surprising attachment despite their deep incompatibility. Lowdermilk and Kerrigan have written several other musicals together including Henry & Mudge, which had an Off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and is currently touring the country with TheatreworksUSA. Mr. Lowdermilk studied at Harvard for a time before moving to New York.
STAGE READING – THE ETTY PROJECT
THE ETTY PROJECT is a new play based on the writings of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman of 27 who underwent an astonishing transformation in the final two years before her death in Auschwitz. In the piece, an ensemble of actors play specific persons from Etty’s life, literary figures that roam her mind and sometimes just themselves as they follow Etty’s journey as a gifted but troubled young writer to a woman who consciously wrestles with her inner hatred and the horror of her times. Inspired by the depth of Etty’s diaries and letters, IRNE award-winning actress Anne Gottlieb has brought together a gifted collaborative team including Director and OBIE award-winner Katie Pearl and celebrated Off-Broadway Playwright Kirk Lynn to co-create this new work. The Etty Project is supported in part by The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New Jewish Theatre Projects.
For more information on any of SpeakEasy’s 2007-2008 shows, the public is invited to call the BostonTheatreScene.com box office at 617-933-8600 or go online to www.BostonTheatreScene.com. SpeakEasy Stage Company is a proud resident theatre company at the Boston Center for the Arts.
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