If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would your season be?

#1

If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would your season be?

Posted: 11/28/06 at 7:27pm

Let's say you were the artistic director for a major regional theatre company. Getting talent and audience is not an issue. Your audience is an equal mixture of all types. You are doing six shows in one summer - with a MAXIMUM of two musicals. The performance arts center you are located in includes a large proscenium theatre and a smaller, more intimate theatre.

What would your season be? (You may only choose shows whose rights are available for licensing)

Here's mine:

Smaller Theatre:
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- The Visit
- Bat Boy

Larger Theatre:
- The Man Who Came To Dinner
- Hamlet
- Peter Pan (Stiles & Drewe version)

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"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

#2

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would your season be?

Posted: 11/28/06 at 7:31pm

Small Theater:
- Antigone
- See What I Wanna See
- Polish Joke

Larger Theater:
- A Little Night Music
- The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
- Jumpers or Equus

*faints*

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#3

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would your season be?

Posted: 11/28/06 at 7:37pm

Small Theater:
SS Glencairn Quadrilogy - O'Neill
Three Days of Rain - Greenberg
Private Lives - Coward

Large Theater:
Long Day's Journey into Night - O'Neill, again
Two Gentlemen of Verona - Guare/McDermott
Our Town - Wilder

#4

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would your season be?

Posted: 11/28/06 at 7:50pm

Small Theater:
Quills
The Illusion
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Large Theater:
As You Like It
Travesties
Pippin

#5

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 8:07pm

Small: Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Snoopy
Large: Little Shop, Hair, The Times They Are A-Changin'(Just Kidding)

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"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

#6

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 8:40pm

Trekkie2 - only a TWO musical maximum!

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"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

#7

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 8:46pm

But, CapnHook, in the large section, all I put were two. Everybody knows that The Times They Are A-Changin' was a one man monologue performed by Kermit The Frog.

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"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

#8

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 8:57pm

Small Theatre:
Assassins
Doubt
Beyond Therapy

Large Theatre:
Sweet Charity
The History Boys
The Producers

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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

#9

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:00pm

Well I was going to post the next summer season in Ogunquit, but it hasn't been offically announced yet....

And it's all musicals......

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#10

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:02pm

Medium Theater - 7 show season

Phaedre
Sunday in the Park With George
Execution of Justice
Passion
MacBeth
The Light in the Piazza

#11

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:06pm

Musicals:
Chicago
Les Miserables
Anything Goes
Beauty And The Beast
The Light In The Piazza
Cats
A Chorus Line

Plays:
Noises Off
The Laramie Project
As You Like It
The History Boys
The Man Who Came To Dinner
Tracers/Quilters
Rebel Without A Cause

Casts for Chicago and Les Miz:

Chicogo:
Nicole Kidman as Roxie
Matthew Broaderick as Billy
Kristin Chenoweth as Velma

Les Miz:
Shuler Hensleyas Javert
Charlotte D'Amboise as Fantine
Randal Keith as Valjean
Alisan Porter as Eponine
Ricky Martin as Enjolras
Aaron Lazar as Marius

Updated On: 11/29/06 at 09:06 PM

#12

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:12pm

Medium Theatre, second year, 7-show season

The Bacchae
The King & I
Henry V
The Skriker
The Octaroon
Miss Saigon
The Lady From the Sea

Second sold-out season. Grants from everywhere. Agents for Hollywood actors pounding at the gate to get them on my stage--all gently declined with the exception of actors with prior stage experience--in other words Ralph Fiennes is made welcome.

Updated On: 11/28/06 at 09:12 PM

#13

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:39pm

Smaller Theatre
Clue: the Musical
The Gin Game
The Foreigner

Larger Theatre
The Producers
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Midsummer Night's Dream

#14

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:46pm

Small:
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Streetcar Named Desire
Sunday in the Park With George

Large:
Twelfth Night
A Doll's House
Passion

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"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

#15

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:46pm

Small Theatre:

Night Of The Iguana
Long Days Journey Into Night
Awake and Sing

Large Theatre:

Side Show
Midsummer Night's Dream
The Woman In White

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...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

#16

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:49pm

I enjoy this game.

Small Theatre:

Stupid Kids by John C. Russell
Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman
As Thousands Cheer by Irving Berlin and Moss Hart

Big Theatre:

The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
Gypsy by Jule Styne, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Sondheim
Noises Off by Michael Frayn

#17

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:49pm

hell yes to twelfth night aspiring actress

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Can, can I have it?

#18

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:50pm

is the Woman in White available? I am dying to do that show? What company is it licensed through?

#19

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:57pm

Small Theatre:

A Streetcar Named Desire
The Importance of Being Earnest
Assassins

Large Theatre:

Much Ado About Nothing
Angels In America
Cabaret

#20

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:35pm

Small Theater
Once on this Island
Bare
Man of La Mancha

Large Theater
Sweeney Todd
Pippin
Ragtime

#21

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:51pm

hmmm....

smaller theatre:
Cabaret
Beautiful Thing
Wonder of the World

Larger Theatre:
On Golden Pond
Hairspray (I know, I know, but the rights ARE available (for a sh&tload of $$) and I'm currently re-obsessed
Brighton Beach Memoirs

Back-up season:

Large Theatre:
Lost in Yonkers
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (works in a small space, but I'd glam it up for the summer tourists)
Steel Magnolias

Small Theatre:
Closer
Bat Boy
Buried Child

#22

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:59pm

Small Theatre:
Clue: The Musical
Betrayal
Of Mice and Men

Large Theatre:
Ragtime
Noises Off
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cheers,

Christopher

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#23

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/29/06 at 12:25am

Smaller Theatre
Dear World
Getting Away With Murder
I Am My Own Wife

Larger Theatre
Much Ado About Nothing
Mother Courage (Kushner-Tesori)
It's a Bird; It's a Plane; It's SUPERMAN!

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#24

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/29/06 at 6:57am

Unfortunately, The Woman In White rights are not yet available. The national UK tour is still being considered and the rights will most likely be released in time after that. Its all up to Really Useful Group.

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...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

#25

re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo

Posted: 11/29/06 at 8:46am

Small theatre:
THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN RECONCILLIATION

Large theatre:
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL

Small theatre:
THE SHAPE OF THINGS

Large theatre:
THE COMEDY OF ERRRORS

Small theatre:
URINETOWN

Large theatre:
CYRANO DE BERGERAC