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The John Rando Season
Broadway USA! - New York - 2004
John Rando - Guest Artistic Director
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Emma
Book/Music/Lyrics by Stephen Karam
No Cliff Notes necessary — this modern, musical version of Jane Austen's Emma, is slick, sexy, and set for scandal. Determined to help her protégé (a gay orphan and part-time janitor), Emma Woodhouse navigates her way around the small, conservative community of Highbury, CT, and finds herself turning everything upside-down in the process. With plot twists around every corner, this musical's quirky, fresh humor had critics proclaiming: "Karam's very loose adaptation of Austen's classic novel is very, very good, the best I have seen over many years" and "This talented young man is the best lyric writer I've heard since Stephen Sondheim," after its concert reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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The Enchanted Cottage
Music by Kim Oler. Lyrics by Alison Hubbard. Book by Thomas Edward West
Enter The Enchanted Cottage, where a bitter, disfigured World War I veteran turns able and a lonely, ugly woman turns beautiful. This heartfelt new musical by Thomas Edward West, Kim Oler, & Alison Hubbard soars with the power of romance and beauty as the despair that accompanies the devastation of war is redeemed by the transformative power of love. The Enchanted Cottage received the 2003 Jerry Bock Award and the 2002 BMI Jerry Harrington Award, and was featured in the 2002 NAMT Festival of New Musicals in New York, starring Michael Hayden and Emily Skinner. The song "Tennis" was the subject of a discussion by Maury Yeston in the latest Dramatists Guild Quarterly Magazine, an issue on the Art of Lyric Writing. |
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Ducks and Lovers
Music/Lyrics/Book by Peter Gootkind. Book by Marni Goltsman
Based on the play Ducks and Lovers by Murray Schisgal this screwball musical comedy depicts the conflicts of a young man torn between two distinctly different worlds. When Robert Latoré lands a job at Hathaway Advertising, his corporate American dream is finally realized. But when the young executive's traditional grandmother pronounces him "King of the Gypsies," his worst nightmare begins! Pandemonium ensues as these two very different worlds collide, until this zany yet heart-felt musical comedy about family relationships reaches epic proportions... and offers epic laughs.
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