Musicals in Mufti Concert Series
SPRING 1994
The Grass Harp Richardson/Elmslie A Doll’s Life Grossman/Comden & Green Oh, Brother! Valenti/Driver SPRING 1995 Onward Victoria Hermann/Anker & Rosenberg Mata Hari Thomas/Charnin/Coopersmith Golden Boy Strouse/Adams/Lee FALL 1996 Harrigan ’n’ Hart Showalter/Walker/Stewart Carmelina Lane/Lerner & Harman/ Lerner & Stein Oh, Captain! Livingston & Evans/ Morgan & Ferrer FALL 1997 Fade Out—Fade In Styne/Comden & Green Her First Roman Ervin Drake/after Shaw The Human Comedy MacDermot/Dumaresq FALL 1998 Darling of the Day Styne/Harburg/Johnson Revisions: Haagensen Kelly Charlap/Lawrence Billion Dollar Baby Gould/Comden & Green FALL 1999 The Girl Who Came to Supper Coward/Kurnitz Destry Rides Again Rome/Gershe Beggar’s Holiday Ellington/Latouche & Wasserman/Wasserman WINTER 2000 Kean Wright & Forrest/Stone Wish You Were Here Rome/Kober & Logan 70, Girls, 70 Kander/Ebb/ Thompson & Martin FALL 2000 Rex Rodgers/Harnick/Yellen Johnny Johnson Weill/Green Hallelujah, Baby! Styne/Comden & Green/Laurents WINTER 2001 Celebration Schmidt/Jones Baker Street Grudeff & Jessel/Coopersmith Carmen Jones Bizet/Hammerstein II FALL 2001 The Good Companions Previn/Mercer/Harwood Cyrano Lewis/Burgess Regina Marc Blitzstein SPRING 2002 By Jupiter Rodgers/Hart/ Rodgers & Hart Androcles & The Lion Rodgers/Stone Me & Juliet Rodgers/Hammerstein II FALL 2002 Jumbo Rodgers/Hart/Hecht & MacArthur How Now, Dow Jones Bernstein/Leigh/Shulman New Girl In Town Merrill/Abbott WINTER 2003 The Grass Harp Richardson/Elmslie A Family Affair Kander/Goldman & Kander/ Goldman & Goldman Pacific 1860 Noël Coward FALL 2003 Oh, Boy! Kern/Wodehouse/ Bolton & Wodehouse Lucky Stiff Flaherty/Ahrens Man with a Load of Mischief Clifton/Clifton & Tarver /Tarver | SPRING 2004
Best Foot Forward Martin & Blane/Holm Fanny Rome/Behrman & Logan Weird Romance Menken/Spencer/ Brennert & Spencer FALL 2004 Henry, Sweet Henry Merrill/Johnson Twenty Fingers, Twenty Toes Danicker/Dansicker & Nigro Greenwillow Loesser/Samuels & Loesser SPRING 2005 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Ashman/Ashman (Green)/Menken Jamaica Harburg & Saidy/ Harburg/Arlen Book adaptation: Hochhauser Darling of the Day Styne/Harburg/Johnson Adaptation: Haagensen FALL 2005 I Can Get It For You Wholesale Weidman/Rome The Great Big Radio Show! Glassborow/McIvor Is There Life After High School? Carnelia/Kindley LATE FALL 2005 Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi Johnston/Hochhauser Miss Liberty Berlin/Sherwood Mirette Schmidt/Jones/Diggs FALL 2006 Take Me Along Merrill/Stein & Russell Carmelina Lane/Lerner / Lerner & Stein/Harman Plain and Fancy Hague/Horwitt/ Stein & Glickman SUMMER 2007 It’s A Bird…It’s A Plane… It’s Superman! Strouse/Adams/ Benton/Newman I & Albert Strouse/Adams/Allen Bajour Kinoy/Marks The Day Before Spring Lerner/Loewe FALL 2007 Zorba Kander/Ebb/Stein Enter Laughing Daniels/Stein The Body Beautiful Bock/Harnick/Stein/Glickman The Baker’s Wife Schwartz/Stein SUMMER 2008 Minnie’s Boys Grossman/Hackady/ Marx/Fisher Grind Grossman/Fitzhugh/ Kanin/Rouse Goodtime Charley Grossman/Hackady/Michaels SPRING 2009 The Grand Tour Herman/Stewart & Bramble High Spirits Martin & Gray Knickerbocker Holiday Weill/Anderson FALL 2010 Coco Lerner/Previn The Roar of the Greasepaint... Bricusse & Newly I Remember Mama Rodgers/Charnin/Meehan I Love My Wife Stewart/Coleman SUMMER 2011 I'm Getting My Act Together & Taking It On The Road Cryer/Ford Still Getting My Act Together Cryer/Ford Oh, Coward! Cook/Coward The Mad Show Siegel & Hart/Barer, Siegel & Vinaver/Rodgers |
2011 Series Info:
Tomfoolery
The Words and Music of Tom Lehrer
Adapted by Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray
Musical Arrangements by Chris Walker and Robert Fisher
Directed by Pamela Hunt
Tomfoolery offers a witty and wicked look at the works of famed satirical songwriter (and Harvard math professor) Tom Lehrer. Pushing boundaries in a playful way, Lehrer’s songs have delightfully skewered the world for over fifty years. Nothing is sacred in this hilarious revue, filled with unabashed riffs on pop culture, including such favorite tunes as “The Old Dope Peddler,” “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” and “The Vatican Rag.”
The Housewives' Cantata
Music by Mira J. Spektor
Lyrics by June Siegel
Directed by Karen Carpenter
Meet the “real housewives” of musical theatre, long before the ladies of Bravo and Wisteria Lane graced your TV screens. The Housewives’ Cantata is an empowering cabaret-style revue that The New York Times called “a sprightly songfest” when it opened Off-Broadway in 1981 (produced by the legendary Cheryl Crawford). This sung-through musical follows the stories of three women… one of whom takes a tremendous journey to become the first female President of the United States.
The Mad Show
A Musical Revue
Based on MAD Magazine
Book by Larry Siegel and Stan Hart
Lyrics by Marshall Barer, Larry Siegel and Steven Vinaver
Music by Mary Rodgers
July 29-31, 2011
The Mad Show premiered in 1966. A comic revue filled with songs, sketches and the irreverent humor in the style of the ever-popular MAD Magazine, the original production featured Linda Lavin and Jo Anne Worley. While spoofing everything from television commercials to the generation gap, The Mad Show includes the timeless and hilarious song, “The Boy From” written by Stephen Sondheim as Esteban Rio Nido.
Oh, Coward!
A Musical Comedy Revue
Words & Music by Noel Coward
Devised by Roderick Cook
July 15-17, 2011
Oh, Coward! is a revue of material from the Noel Coward library that premiered in 1972. The show intersperses some of Coward's best songs with writings and anecdotes from his life. Witty, melodic and as dry as a glass of great champagne, Sir Noel's work is unparalleled in its sophisticated style and ability to entertain theatre lovers of all ages. The New York Times called it "ingenious & very, very funny!"
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road
Music by Nancy Ford
Book & Lyrics by Gretchen Cryer
June 19-26, 2011
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road is one of the most enduring and empowering Off-Broadway musicals of all time. The show premiered in the late 1970s Off-Broadway at the Public Theater and ran for years, becoming a sensation for all theatre-goers. The story follows a fictional cabaret singer, Heather Jones, as she evolves her traditional act of romantic pop tunes to a bold new act full of emancipating, feminist pieces. As she performs the new show, song by song, Heather fights to achieve an artistic metamorphosis while her dominating manager, Joe, tries to keep her act in the past.
Still Getting My Act Together
Music by Nancy Ford
Book & Lyrics by Gretchen Cryer
June 19-26, 2011
The never-before-seen-or-heard sequel, Still Getting My Act Together, takes place 30 years after the original and will also be presented Mufti-style for the first time ever onstage. In this new show, Heather and her daughter take center stage and will uncover just what happened in the three decades since Heather got her act together and took it on the road...
Tomfoolery
The Words and Music of Tom Lehrer
Adapted by Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray
Musical Arrangements by Chris Walker and Robert Fisher
Directed by Pamela Hunt
Tomfoolery offers a witty and wicked look at the works of famed satirical songwriter (and Harvard math professor) Tom Lehrer. Pushing boundaries in a playful way, Lehrer’s songs have delightfully skewered the world for over fifty years. Nothing is sacred in this hilarious revue, filled with unabashed riffs on pop culture, including such favorite tunes as “The Old Dope Peddler,” “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” and “The Vatican Rag.”
The Housewives' Cantata
Music by Mira J. Spektor
Lyrics by June Siegel
Directed by Karen Carpenter
Meet the “real housewives” of musical theatre, long before the ladies of Bravo and Wisteria Lane graced your TV screens. The Housewives’ Cantata is an empowering cabaret-style revue that The New York Times called “a sprightly songfest” when it opened Off-Broadway in 1981 (produced by the legendary Cheryl Crawford). This sung-through musical follows the stories of three women… one of whom takes a tremendous journey to become the first female President of the United States.
The Mad Show
A Musical Revue
Based on MAD Magazine
Book by Larry Siegel and Stan Hart
Lyrics by Marshall Barer, Larry Siegel and Steven Vinaver
Music by Mary Rodgers
July 29-31, 2011
The Mad Show premiered in 1966. A comic revue filled with songs, sketches and the irreverent humor in the style of the ever-popular MAD Magazine, the original production featured Linda Lavin and Jo Anne Worley. While spoofing everything from television commercials to the generation gap, The Mad Show includes the timeless and hilarious song, “The Boy From” written by Stephen Sondheim as Esteban Rio Nido.
Oh, Coward!
A Musical Comedy Revue
Words & Music by Noel Coward
Devised by Roderick Cook
July 15-17, 2011
Oh, Coward! is a revue of material from the Noel Coward library that premiered in 1972. The show intersperses some of Coward's best songs with writings and anecdotes from his life. Witty, melodic and as dry as a glass of great champagne, Sir Noel's work is unparalleled in its sophisticated style and ability to entertain theatre lovers of all ages. The New York Times called it "ingenious & very, very funny!"
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road
Music by Nancy Ford
Book & Lyrics by Gretchen Cryer
June 19-26, 2011
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road is one of the most enduring and empowering Off-Broadway musicals of all time. The show premiered in the late 1970s Off-Broadway at the Public Theater and ran for years, becoming a sensation for all theatre-goers. The story follows a fictional cabaret singer, Heather Jones, as she evolves her traditional act of romantic pop tunes to a bold new act full of emancipating, feminist pieces. As she performs the new show, song by song, Heather fights to achieve an artistic metamorphosis while her dominating manager, Joe, tries to keep her act in the past.
Still Getting My Act Together
Music by Nancy Ford
Book & Lyrics by Gretchen Cryer
June 19-26, 2011
The never-before-seen-or-heard sequel, Still Getting My Act Together, takes place 30 years after the original and will also be presented Mufti-style for the first time ever onstage. In this new show, Heather and her daughter take center stage and will uncover just what happened in the three decades since Heather got her act together and took it on the road...
