The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 9:56am
GODDESS (New York Premiere in Spring 2025)
Conceived by Saheem Ali
Music & Lyrics by Michael Thurber
Book by Jocelyn Bioh
Choreography by Darrell Grand Moultrie Directed by Saheem Ali
SEAT OF OUR PANTS (World Premiere Musical in Fall 2025)
Music & Lyrics by Ethan Lipton
Based Upon the Play The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Leigh Silverman
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=932013878756520
#2The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 9:59am
Nice to see the Public doing musicals that aren’t so baldly aimed at transferring.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#3The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 10:12am
Kad said: "Nice to see the Public doing musicals that aren’t so baldly aimed at transferring."
Goddess has every intention on transferring. Mara Isaacs and No Guarantees are attached.
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#4The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 10:13am
Kad said: "Nice to see the Public doing musicals that aren’t so baldly aimed at transferring."
I don't know about SEAT, but GODDESS very much has a commercial producer (billionaire Christine Schwartzman's No Guarantees) and is aiming for Broadway. But I suppose it's a less commercial project than, say, an Alicia Keys catalogue musical.
inception
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
#5The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 12:09pm
What is Goddess about?
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jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#6The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 1:25pm
inception said: "What is Goddess about?"
From Berkeley Rep website (2022 production):
A mysterious singer arrives at Moto Moto, a steamy Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya. She casts an entrancing spell on everyone, including a young man who has returned home from studying in America. Will the big plans for his life — stepping into a political legacy and marrying his fiancée — be upended?
Inspired by the myth of Marimba, the Goddess who created beautiful songs from her heartbreak, this is a rousing tale of romance, the supernatural, and the quest towards one’s truest self.
Ke3
Broadway Star Joined: 6/25/20
#7The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 1:26pm
jacobsnchz14 said: "GODDESS (New York Premiere in Spring 2025)
Conceived by Saheem Ali
Music & Lyrics by Michael Thurber
Book by Jocelyn Bioh
Choreography by Darrell Grand Moultrie Directed by Saheem Ali
SEAT OF OUR PANTS (World Premiere Musical in Fall 2025)
Music & Lyrics by Ethan Lipton
Based Upon the Play The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Leigh Silverman
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=932013878756520"
Is Skin of Our Teeth in the public domain now or have they just granted rights? If so, I'd loveeee to know what it was about Kander and Ebb's that got the rights revoked.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#8The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 1:33pm
It’s not uncommon for rightholders to grant permission for multiple adaptations of a work. Especially if this one varies drastically from the source material and/or the K&E musical.
#9The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 1:44pm
I saw Goddess at Berkeley Rep. It definitely was NOT primetime ready. But, it's been a couple years and I'm really excited to see what changes have been made in that time.
A Skin of Our Teeth musical is SOOO right up my alley, I'm PUMPED for that one.
chrishuyen
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/12/14
#10The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 1:49pm
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "It’s not uncommon for rightholders to grant permission for multiple adaptations of a work. Especially if this one varies drastically from the source material and/or the K&E musical."
I mean I think the question is more about how rights for Skin of Our Teeth (and also Our Town) got revoked from their musical adaptations so those musicals were never able to go anywhere (the Skin of Our Teeth adaptation was meant to go to the West End but got pulled because of that). So it's interesting that the estate is granting rights again. Though I really enjoyed the recent revival so I'm excited to see what it looks like
#11The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 1:56pm
The Kander and Ebb version was quite the disaster, no?
merle57
Chorus Member Joined: 9/9/24
#12The Public announces two new musicals for 2025 season
Posted: 9/25/24 at 2:41pm
Schmidtand Jones did a wonderful version of Our Town but the rights were pulled. Kander and Ebb did an interesting version of Skin, but the rights were pulled. The Wilder estate -- which made millions off of Hello Dolly -- seems to have a history of granting the musical rights, then pulling them after regional or off-Broadway productions. I would love to hear the Kander and Ebb version. It is an interesting play for musical adaptation.
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