Two World Premiere Musicals & More Set for La Jolla Playhouse 2024/2025 Season

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Two World Premiere Musicals & More Set for La Jolla Playhouse 2024/2025 Season#1

Posted: 10/31/23 at 5:01pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Two-World-Premiere-Musicals-More-Set-for-La-Jolla-Playhouse-20242025-Season-20231031

La Jolla Playhouse has unveiled its 2024/2025 season, featuring two world-premiere musicals: The Ballad of Johnny and June, book by Robert Cary and Tony Award winner and La Jolla Playhouse Director Emeritus Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys), music and lyrics by Johnny Cash, June Carterand others, directed by Des McAnuff; and 3 Summers of Lincoln, book by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis, Babbitt), music by Crystal Monee Hall, lyrics by Daniel J. Watts and Joe DiPietro, directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley, the Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse (Come From Away).

 

The season will also include three world-premiere plays: Derecho, by Noelle Viñas, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (Playhouse’s The Garden, Hoopla!), developed during the Playhouse’s 2022 DNA New Work Series; Sasha Velour: A Drag Spectacular, by Sasha Velour and Moisés Kaufman(Playhouse’s Here There Are Blueberries), directed by Moisés Kaufman, in a co-production with Tectonic Theater Project; and Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again, by Anna Ouyang Moench, directed by Les Waters (Playhouse’s Wintertime, Nora), plus the West Coast premiere of Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth, directed by Knud Adams.