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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 4, 2007
Contact: Brian Gaston, Manager, Brown Theatre Box Office
401-863-2730 * brian_gaston@brown.edu * Further information: www.brown.edu/tickets
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Announcing the 2007/2008 Brown Theatre Season
Sock & Buskin
City of Angels Book by Larry Gelbart, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by David Zippel
October 18-21 & 25-28, 2007, Stuart Theatre
Sock & Buskin
Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl
November 8-11 & 15-18, 2007, Leeds Theatre
Brownbrokers new musical:
Elsewards based on Hansel and Gretel by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
Book and Lyrics by Jessie Hopkins\Music by Jerzy Fischer
December 6-9, 2007, Stuart Theatre
Senior Director Showcase
Hamletmachine by Heiner Mueller/Translated by Marc von Henning
February 21-24, 2008, Leeds Theatre
Sock & Buskin
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen\Adapted by John Emigh
March 6-9 & 13-16, 2008, Stuart Theatre
Sock & Buskin
...and Jesus Moonwalked the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley
April 10-13 & 17-20, 2008, Leeds Theatre
Brown Festival of Dance
May 1-4, 2008, Stuart Theatre
All performances Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 2 PM
Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts
77 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912
Brown Theatre Box Office: 401-863-2838
Box Office open Tuesday through Friday 12-5 PM
www.brown.edu/tickets
The following is core information, my on-going list of details, a beginning point for individual releases…
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City of Angels
Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by David Zippel
Book by Larry Gelbart
Directed by Lowry Marshall
October 18-21 & 25-28, 2007
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM
Stuart Theatre
77 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Box Office: 401.863.2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
CITY OF ANGELS is the rarest of musical comedies; one that is not only loaded with music and written in the contemporary jazz idiom, but also filled with sidesplitting comedy. Set in the glamorous, seductive Hollywood of the 40's, the world of film studios and flimsy negligees, the show chronicles the misadventures of Stine, a young novelist, attempting a screenplay for movie producer/director, Buddy Fidler.
While Fidler professes to be a fan of Stine's work: "I've read a synopsis of every book you've ever written," he assures the author, his gargantuan ego forces Stine to make endless compromises in the script he's writing. The script is an adaptation of one of Stine's novels, which features his Raymond Chandleresque hero, a private investigator named Stone.
Traditionally, each movie scene that Stine writes is acted out onstage by a group of characters whose costumes are limited to various shades of black and white. The same is true of the sets in which they appear and the props that they use. With music scored in the genre, we are, in fact, treated to a live version of a 1940's private eye film. It is a tale of decadence and homicide with a liberal sprinkling of femmes fatale.
Musical. 2-2.5 hours with intermission.
Frank Rich of the New York Times:
"How long has it been since a musical was brought to a halt by riotous jokes? One would have to travel back to the 1960's to find a musical as flat out funny as City of Angels."
Liz Smith of the New York Daily News:
"One of the most innovative, brilliant, perfect, breathtaking, entertaining pieces of theatre I have ever seen."
Edwin Wilson of the Wall Street Journal:
"Mr. Gelbart, one of the cleverest wordsmiths working today, not only captures the spirit of the film-noir, he delivers one knockout punch after another."
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Parents Weekend Dance Concert
October 26-28, 2007
Friday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm
Ashamu Dance Studio
77 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Box Office: 401.863.2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
The 2007 Parents Weekend Dance Concert will include a new dance theatre piece by New Works/World Traditions, under the direction of Michelle Bach-Coulibaly. Bach-Coulibaly describes her new piece, "Primrose and Circumstance" as a deconstructed travelogue, where space, place, and history meet at dueling crossroads. The concert will also highlight existing and new repertory works by the Brown Dance Extension, under the direction of Julie Strandberg.
Dance variety. Average length 2 hours with intermission.
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Melancholy Play
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Ken Prestininzi
November 8-11 & 15-18, 2007
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM
Leeds Theatre
77 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Box Office: 401.863.2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Frances, Tilly’s hairdresser, becomes so melancholy that she turns into an almond. It is up to Tilly to get her back.
A contemporary farce. 90 minutes with no intermission
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Fall Dance Concert
November 29-December 2, 2007
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM
Ashamu Dance Studio
77 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Box Office: 401.863.2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
Dance, variety. Average length 2 hours with intermission.
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Brownbrokers presents
Elsewards
based on Hansel and Gretel by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
Book and Lyrics by Jessie Hopkins
Music by Jerzy Fischer
Directed by Albert Huber
December 6-9, 2007
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM
Stuart Theatre
77 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Box Office: 401.863.2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
Musical. 2-2.5 hours with intermission.
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Senior Showcase
Hamletmachine
by Heiner Müller
Translated by Marc von Henning,
Directed by José Enrique Macián
February 21-24, 2008
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM
Leeds Theatre
77 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Box Office: 401.863.2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
“Write into the void, learn to embrace isolation, in which we may commence undistractedly our dreadful but all-important dialogue with the dead. Forget about love and turn your face to history”
- Tony Kushner in reference to Heiner Müller
Brown Theatre's production of Müller's Hamletmachine is an exploration into a young generation's attempt to stimulate social change while confronted by the conformity of consumerist culture. Written in 1977, Hamletmachine revisits the Western Canon's representation of the intellectual faced with revolutionary change. Here, Shakespeare's Hamlet is seen as a man at the threshold of two distinct eras: The movement between Ice Age and Heat Death, between the failure of real existing socialism and the accession of capitalism. In the year 2008, what marks our own transition as the Bush presidency comes to an end, when the ruins of Müller's Europe have become the ruins of the World Trade Center?
Drama/Experimental. 1 hour 45 minutes, intermission TBD
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Peer Gynt
by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted and Directed by John Emigh
March 6-9 & 13-16, 2008
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM
Stuart Theatre
77 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Box Office: 401.863.2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
Peer Gynt is a brawling bragging slacker. Abandoned by his father and unable to overcome his dearth of good sense and wealth of public scorn, Peer quickly disgraces himself and is banished from town. With his family searching for him, Peer wanders into the mountains thus beginning his epic journey in the search of the answer to the age old question - "What is it to be one self?"
Epic drama. 2 hours with intermission.
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...and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi
by Marcus Gardley
Directed by Patricia Ybarra
April 10-13 & 17-20, 2008
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM
Leeds Theatre
77 Waterman Street, Providence RI
Box Office: 401.863.2838
www.brown.edu/tickets
"DEMETER is old enough to die wise. She is Black, her hair as silver as a rainbow trout and her skin just as smooth. She is built like a good man, one whose been fighting all her life. She even walks like a good man, women notice her. Men pretend not to. She wears a tattered petticoat, ripped slacks and a cold, black fedora. She talks softly and with a North Carolina "gentile." Perhaps, a man should play here. DAMASCUS is her former being."
-- ...and Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi, Marcus Gardley
Poetic Drama. 1 hour; 45 minutes with intermission
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Brown Festival of Dance
May 1-4, 2008
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM
From classical to contemporary, from historical to cutting edge the Brown Festival of Dance features a wide variety of work with bold Brown style.
Dance, variety. 2 hours with intermission.
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