If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would your season be?
If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would your season be?
#1If 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)
"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
--Aristotle
#1re: 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*
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: 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
popculture37
Understudy Joined: 8/14/06
#3re: 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
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#4re: 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)
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
#5re: 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! 
"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
--Aristotle
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#6re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo
Posted: 11/28/06 at 8:46pmBut, 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.
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
#7re: 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
"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
To Kill A Mockingbird
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#8re: 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......
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#9re: 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: 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
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#11re: 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
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#12re: 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
#13re: 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
"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
#13re: 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
...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...
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#15re: 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
#16re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo
Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:49pmhell yes to twelfth night aspiring actress
Can, can I have it?
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#17re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo
Posted: 11/28/06 at 9:50pmis the Woman in White available? I am dying to do that show? What company is it licensed through?
#18re: 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
#19re: 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
Junior
Stand-by Joined: 4/12/06
#20re: 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
#21re: 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
www.christopherviolett.com
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#22re: 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!
I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!
#23re: If you were the Artistic Director for a regional theatre, what would yo
Posted: 11/29/06 at 6:57amUnfortunately, 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.
...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...
WildhornFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 2/5/05
#24re: 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
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