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2006-2007 LYRIC STAGE
SEASON
SWEENEY
TODD in concert at The Meyerson
Tues. September 12, 2006 (one performance
only!)
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Music by Stephen Sondheim
The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim
and Hugh Wheeler’s chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding
masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells
the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns
to 19th century London seeking revenge. His thirst for blood
soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the
resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon
has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious
new meat pie recipe! Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and
uncompromising, SWEENEY TODD nevertheless has a great sense
of fun, mixing intense drama with howlingly funny moments
of dark humor. |
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CABIN IN THE SKY
October
6 - 21, 2006
Book by Lynn Root
Lyrics by John LaTouche
Music by Vernon Duke
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Lyric Stage
a grant to produce CABIN IN THE SKY, the show that catapulted
Ethel Waters to stardom. A musical fable about the tug of
war between good and evil in the rural South, its song classics
include "Taking a Chance on Love," "Honey
in the Honeycomb," "Love Turned the Light Out,"
and "Cabin in the Sky." CABIN IN THE SKY has not
been seen in its original form since its 1940 Broadway production.
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THE WINNER
Feb 16 - March
3, 2007
Book and Lyrics by Joe Sutton
Music by Lewis Flinn
THE WINNER is a love story between Lyndon Baines Johnson
and his wife Ladybird. It is also, however, a tale of one
of the dirtiest, most vicious, most colorful campaigns in
the history of our country – LBJ’s notorious
Senate race of 1948. With his trusted campaign manager John
Connally at his side, the two men re-wrote the rulebook
on modern politics. They brought in money, media and campaigned
by air. They eventually invented the equivalent of the “hanging
chad.” And through it all Johnson’s wife Ladybird
looked on with worry. And then she intervened. With love,
with compassion, but more than anything, with a sense of
ethics that her husband often lacked, Ladybird fought for
the man she loved – and in doing so, she delivered
to her state and her country a man she could be proud of.
The man who eventually became the 36th President of the
United States…Lyndon Baines Johnson. |
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DALLAS DIVAS!
March 9 & 10, 2007
The Divas are back in concert with the Irving Symphony Orchestra.
Lyric Stage Founding Producer Steven Jones will bring together
a dozen of North Texas’ finest leading ladies for
the eleventh edition of this highly anticipated annual event
performing JERRY'S GIRLS, the music of Jerry Herman. The
DALLAS DIVAS! will be together for two performances only,
Friday, March 9 and Saturday, March 10 in the Irving Arts
Center’s Carpenter Performance Hall, 3333 N. MacArthur
Blvd. Irving, TX. |
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MASTER CLASS
April 13 - April
28, 2007
By Terrence McNally
Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience
(us). She's glamorous, commanding, larger than life—and
drop-dead funny. Callas' first "victim" is Sophie,
a ridiculous, overly-perky soprano. Sophie chooses to sing
one of the most difficult arias, the sleepwalking scene
from La Sonnambula—an aria that Callas made famous.
Before the girl sings a note, Callas stops her. And now
what has started out as a class has become a platform for
Callas. She glories in her own career, dabbles in opera
dish and flat-out seduces the audience.
"Terrence McNally's new play MASTER CLASS…will
be talked about for years to come whenever people point
to theater experiences that genuinely deserve to be labeled
by the overused word "great." —The
Hollywood Reporter.
"Get a ticket: MASTER CLASS is mesmerizing theater."
—Star-Ledger. |
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