CAP21 - Past Productions



CAP21 Past Productions 2006-07 2005-06..........2004-05..........2003-04..........2002-03 2001-02..........2000-01..........1999-00..........1998-99 1997-98..........1996-97..........1995-96..........1994-95 2006-07 SEASON WORKSHOP PRODUCTIONS A Womb With A View By Debra Barsha Director: Frank Ventura Pages, A New Musical Music: Will Van Dyke Lyrics: Josh Halloway and Will Van Dyke Book: Josh Halloway Director: Lawrence Arancio Musical Director: Marshall Keating MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES The Dorothy Strelsin New Works Series My Bernhardt Summer By Mark St. Germain Directed by Steve Ramshur) Little Heart: A New Play Based on the Life of Corita Kent By Irene O’Garden Director: Lisa Rothe Upfronts And Personal By Ken Levine Director: Janet Brenner A Womb With A View By Debra Barsha Director: Frank Ventura The Cosmopolitan, A New Musical Music: Lance Horne Lyrics: Lance Horne, Lorin Latarro & Josh Rhodes Book: Lorin Latarro & Josh Rhodes Director: Peter Flynn Musical Director: Jana Zielonka The Barbara Wolff Classics Series Carousel Music: Richard Rogers Book/Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Director: Eliza Ventura Musical Director: Paul Johnson Oklahoma! Music: Richard Rogers Book/Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Director: Eliza Ventura Musical Director: Marshall Keating CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS Urinetown, The Musical Music and Lyrics: Mark Hollmann Book and Lyrics: Greg Kotis Director: Steve Bebout Musical Director: Jared Stein Evita Music: Andrew Lloyd Weber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director/Choreographer: Frank Ventura Musical Director: Jerry Jean Cabaret Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb Book: Joe Masteroff Director: Aimee Francis Musical Director: Michael Hicks Choreographers: Lori Leshner, Billy Griffin Pippin Music/Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz Book: Roger O. Hirson Director/Choreographer: Steven Sofia Musical Director: Jerry Jean 2005-06 SEASON WORKSHOP PRODUCTIONS *The 60’s Project* Conceived and Written by Janet Brenner Director: Richard Maltby, Jr. Musical Supervision: Don York *The Classics Professor* By John Pielmeier Director: Clayton Phillips MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *Pages, a new musical* Music: Will Van Dyke Lyrics: Josh Halloway and Will Van Dyke Book: Josh Halloway Directed by Larry Arancio (Read in the Fall and Spring) *Lady Alice, a new musical* Music: Steven Schoenberg Book/Lyrics: Diane Seymour Musical Director: David Loud *The Classics Professor* By John Pielmeier Directed by Clayton Phillips *The Times* Book/Lyrics: Joe Keenan Music: Brad Ross Director: Greg Ganakas *Sapphisto Summers* By Mary Fengar Gail Directed by Aimee Francis *My Bernhardt Summer* By Mark St. Germain Director: Will Pomerantz CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *Goddess Wheel* Music: Galt MacDermot Book/Lyrics: Matty Selman Director: Frank Ventura *Radiant Baby* Book: Stuart Ross Music: Debra Barsha Lyrics: Ira Gasman, Stuart Ross, and Debra Barsha Director: Frank Ventura *Starmites* Music/Lyrics: Barry Keating Book: Stuart Ross and Barry Keating Directors: Barry Keating and Jeremy Quinn 2004-05 SEASON WORKSHOP PRODUCTION *Six of One* Music by Paul Loessel Book & Lyrics by Scott Burkell MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *CAP21 Classics: The Man Who Came to Dinner* By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman The Independent Music: Steven Schoenberg Book & Lyrics: Steven Scott Smith Musical Director: Phil Reno *Hypochondriac, A Love Story* By Tony DiMurro *Becoming Ingrid* By Liza Lentini *Unholy Acts* Music & Lyrics: Wayne Green Book: Diane Huie Balay Based on the novel, The Age of Miracles by Catherine MacCoun Director: Frank Ventura Musical Director: Jana Zielonka *CAP21 Classics: The Importance of Being Earnest* By Oscar Wilde Director: Frank Ventura Slow Dance with a Hot Pick-up Music & Lyrics: Matty Selman Book: John Peilmeier Director: Daniella Topol *Bergin Pines* By Tony DiMurro Director: Evalyn Baron *Hotel Sarajevo* Music, Book & Lyrics: Marisa Michelson and Stephanie Johnstone Based on the novel by Jack Kersh Director: Kate Guyton *Goddess Wheel* Music: Galt MacDermot Book/Lyrics: Matty Selman Director: Evalyn Baron CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *Grand Hotel* Book: Luther Davis Music & Lyrics: Robert Wright and George Forrest Director: Tony Stevens *The Sound of Plaid* By Stuart Ross Director: Drew Geraci 2003-04 SEASON OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTION *Waiting for My Man* By Tony DiMurro Directed by Anthony Patellis MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *Brain Child* By Liza Lentini *Legacies* By Susan Cameron *Six of One* Music: Paul Loesel Book & Lyrics: Scott Burkell *The Siege of Ennis* By Eileen O’Leary *The Whispers of Saints* By Mark Scharf *Touch of Rapture* By Mary Fenger Gail *Untitled New Musical* Music: Steven Schoenberg Book & Lyrics: Diane Seymour CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *Working, the Musical* Adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso Songs by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, James Taylor *Hardcover Fantasies and Paperback Secrets* Created by Aimee Francis and Austin Eyer 2002-03 SEASON OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTIONS *Killing Louise* By Carol Galligan *Beach Radio* Books & Lyrics: Drey Shepperd Music: Gerard Kenny MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *Autumn Run* By Susan Bigelow-Marsh and Janice Goldberg *Killing Louise* By Carol Galligan *Minnesota Fats is Right Around the Corner* By Tony Di Murro *Six of One, A New Musical* Book & Lyrics: Scott Burkell Music: Paul Loesel *The Bottomless Well* By Pat Kaufman *The Playwright of the Western World* By L.J. Schneiderman *Waiting for My Man* By Tony DiMurro CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *The Wild Party* By Andrew Lippa *Myths and Fables: A Musical Exploration* Created by Frank Ventura 2001-02 SEASON MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *After All* Music: Robert Grusecki Lyrics and Book: Anya Turner and Robert Grusecki *An Afternoon in Connecticut* By Ed Dixon *Beach Radio* Music: Gerard Kenny Books & Lyrics: Drey Shepperd *Becoming Eleanor* By Marsha Lee Sheiness *Betty Thorpe* By James Armstrong *Killing Louise* By Carol Galligan *On the Treetop* By Tony Manzo Roxy Font By Liza Lentini *Slave Shack* By Michael T. Folie *The Handle* By Liza Lentini *The Moon From Mars* By D. Lee Miller *The Temple-Haunting Martlet* By David Van Vleck BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL IX *Autumn Run* By Susan Bigelow-Marsh and Janice Goldberg *Beach Radio* Book & Lyrics: Drey Sheppard Music: Gerard Kenny *Killing Louise* By Carol Galligan *On the Treetop* By Tony Manzo *Rebels* Book: John Allen, William Squier and Mana Allen Lyrics: William Squier and John Allen Music: Jeffrey Lodin CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *On the Town* By Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Leonard Bernstein *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* Book: David Landay and Lawrence Kasha Lyrics: Al Kasha and Johnny Mercer Music: Gene de Paul and Joel Hirschhorn 2000-01 SEASON OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTION *The Immigrant - A New Musical* Book: Mark Harelik Lyrics: Sarah Knapp Music: Steven M. Alper MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *After All* Music: Robert Grusecki Lyrics & Book: Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki *An Afternoon in Connecticut* By Ed Dixon *Background Music* By Carol Galligan *Betty Thorpe* By James Armstrong *Final Sale* By Stuart Gerber *Flying Blind* By Robert Shaffron *Four Beers* By David Van Vleck *Safe* By Richard Vetere *Shoestring Paradise* By Joel Gross *Slave Shack* By Michael T. Folie *Temple-Haunting Martlet* By David Van Vleck *The Czar of Nothingness* By Stuart Warmflash *The Theory of Relativity* By Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder *The West End Horror* By Anthony & Marcia Milgrom Dodge *Unrequited Love* By Melissa Maxwell CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *City of Angels* Book: Larry Gelbart Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: David Zippel *Flying Solo - An Evening of Original One-acts* *Flight 1206* By Cara Cooper, Jesse Factor, Dera Lee, Rashad Naylor, Theresa Oldmixon, Mike Warshaw *Flight 1207* By Courtney Clark, Brian Morey, Christian Saglie, Meghann Dreyfuss, Don Febbraio, Christina D. Matteucci *Flight 1208* By Ryan Brack, Kevin Collins, Amanda Cronk, Alexandra Leeper, Tony Mansker, Nicole Martone, Juliana Prater *How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying* Book: Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, & Willie Gilbert Music and Lyrics: Frank Loesser *Into the Woods* Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: James Lapine 1999-00 SEASON WORKSHOP PRODUCTION *Pete 'n Keeley* Conceived & written by James Hindman BENEFIT Benefit Performance honoring Harold Prince Hosted by Linda Lavin Written by Mana Allen & Scott Hayes MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *Benedict and Arnold* By David Finkle *Blame It on the Bossa-Nova* By Kevin Scott *Edna Klemperer's New Fangled Frock* Book & Lyrics: William Squier Music: Norman Weiss *Final Sale* By Stuart Gerber *Flames of Angels* By William Costanza *One Hundred Years Into the Heart* Music: Jeffrey Lodin Lyrics: William Squier Book & Additional Lyrics: Richard Vetere *Past History* By Michael Grady *Recollection* By John McDonough *Squall* By Elizabeth Gould Hemmerdinger *The Choice of a Lifetime (a screenplay)* By John Anastasi *The Golden State* Music: Mike Shaieb Book & Lyrics: Tim McCanna *The Harvest* Book & Lyrics: J.S. Staniloff Music: DeeAnn Macomson *The Theory of Relativity* By Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder *The West End Horror* By Anthony Dodge & Marcia Milgrom Dodge *The White Road* By William Allen *Wild Nights, Burning Desire (a solo play)* Written and Performed By Marty New Original Music: Elise Kermani BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL VIII *Joy Ride* Music, Lyrics & Book: Clare Gibson *Of Time and Tide* By Sean Cullen *The Immigrant* Book: Mark Harelik Lyrics: Sarah Knapp Music: Steven M. Alper CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *A Marvelous Party: Noel Coward at 100* An Evening with Sheridan Morley at The New York Public Library for the Peforming Arts *If Love Were All - The Lives of Noel & Gertie* *A World to Win - The Lyrics of Sheldon Harnick* Conceived by Robert Brink & Woody Regan Music: David Baker, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Raposo & John Phillip Sousa *Divorce Me, Darling* Book, Music, Lyrics: Sandy Wilson *Hair* Book & Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado Music: Galt MacDermot *Sweeney Todd* Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: Hugh Wheeler From an adaptation by Christopher Bond *The Boyfriend* Book, Music, Lyrics: Sandy Wilson *Why Must the Show Go On?* The Words & Music of Noel Coward Conceived by Marcia Milgrom Dodge 1998-99 SEASON MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *Althea She Went to Hell* By John Barrow *Blessings of Chairman Moo* By Kitty Chen *Christopher, Thomas and Will* By Mark Lowenstern *Criminal Acts* By Kim Merrill *Drink Me or The Strange Case of Alice Times Three* By Mary Gail *Endless Air, Endless Water* By Robert Shaffron *Eye of the Beholder* By Henry Fonte *Freudantics* By Albert Asermely *Gandhi's Big Sleep* By Jeff Hoffman *Getting the Business* By Victor Cahn *Horror Show* By Mason Howington *House of Wonder* By Rinne Groff *How to Make a Rainbow* By Michael Brayndick *Last Lists of My Mad Mother* By Julie Jensen *Life is Like the Movies* Book & Lyrics: Peter Mattaliano Music: Steve Jankowski *Loving of the Game* By Hannah Cudahy *M.V.P.* By Frumi Cohen *Mary Shelley* Music: Allan Jaffe Lyrics & Book: Deborah Atherton *Rebels* Book: John Allen Music: Jeffrey Lodin Lyrics: John Allen & William Squire *Scenes From the 20th Century* By Clare Coss *Scurf* By Hanoch Levin Translated by Gadi Dechter *Secret* By Eustacia Purves Cutler *Sky Fossils* By Lisa Humberston *Small Town Near Pittsburgh, Too Many Bars* By Jeff Hoffman *Snow* By Ben Marshall *Social Insecurity* By Steve Wisniewski *Tamicanfly* By Scott Marshall Taylor *The Algonquin* Book & Lyrics: C.J. Critt Music: Michael Hirsch *The Immigrant* Book: Mark Harelik Lyrics: Sarah Knapp Music: Steven M. Alper *The Opening of Mrs. Diaz* By Mark Levine *The Pawn* By Javon Johnson *The Queens Orphans* By David Crespy *The Robert Hornblower Story* By Richard Warren *The Scarlett Letter* By David Dorwat *The Wooden Breeks* By Glen Berger *When Eagles Fly* By Martin Bell *Wits End* By Kate Chell *Words Your Father Used* By Jeff Hoffman BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL VII *A Difference of Flavor* By L. Trey Wilson *Pete 'n Kelly* Conceived & Written By James Hindman *The Hero with a Thousand Reruns* By Frank Guido *The Real McCoy* Music & Lyrics: David Loud Book: Gene P. Bissell & Joan Ross Sorkin *The Translation* By D. Lee Miller BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL VI *Cedarwood Avenue* By Michael Teele *Endless Air, Endless Water* By Robert Shaffron *Return to Morality* By Jamie Pachino *True Home* By Cass Morgan Music: Steve Alper, David Buckman, Randy Court, Mark St. Germain, Jack Herrick, Cass Morgan, Stephen Schwartz, Jeanine Tesori *Wintergreen for President* Adapted By Laurence Maslon Book: George S. Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *Falsettos* Words & Music: William Finn Book: William Finn & James Lapine *Hello, Again* By Michael John LaChiusa *Pippin* Book: Roger O. Hirson Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz *Flying Solo - An Evening of Original One-acts* *Flight 476* By Larray Grimes, Regan Flynn Turley, Jennifer McGill, Michelle DuPre, J. Brandon Savage *Flight 576* By Kim Smarsh, Jon Dalin, Rob Lewis, Chris Prinzo, Toni Smith *The Real McCoy* Book: Gene P. Bissell & Joan Ross Sorkin Music & Lyrics: David Loud *Times Square - The Musical* Book: David Krane & Bill Keaton Music: David Krane Lyrics: Bill Keaton 1997-98 SEASON BENEFIT Benefit Performance honoring Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty & Jerry Orbach Written By Jennifer Camp MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES *An Evening of Slightly Off-Center Short Plays* By Joe Hortua, Joe Knouse, Mark Loewenstern, Mike Teele and Gary Winter *Artists* By Jenny Lyn Bader *Blue Harbors* By Frank O'Brien *Get Out Your Dead* By Donna Kaz *I Don't* By Michele Rosenthal *Jambulu* By Mary Gail *Last Train to Nibroc* By Arlent Hutton *Six of One - a new musical* Book & Lyrics: Scott Burkell Music: Paul Loesel *The Fable of the Grandmama* By Bernard Cummings *The Strindberg Diaries* By Jonathan Cerullo *The Tool Shed* By Michael Aman *Touch* By Toni Press *Work in Progress* By L. Trey Wilson BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL V *Moll Flanders* Music: Stephen Jankowski Book & Lyrics: Peter Mattaliano *Move It and It's Yours* By Bill Weeden, David Finkle, and Sally Fay *Point of View* By Michael Patrick Kelly *Salt in a Wound* By Melissa Maxwell *Unhappy at Last* By Robert Shaffron CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *Forever Plaid* Written, directed and choreographed By Stuart Ross Musical Continuity, Supervision, Arrangements By James Raitt *Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris* Production conception, English lyrics and additional material by Eric Blau and Mort Shurman Based on Brel's Lyrics and Commentary Music By Jacques Brel *The Sweet By and By* Book & Music: Maria V.S. Seigenthaler Lyrics: Robert Lee Director: Evalyn Baron 1996-97 SEASON BENEFIT Benefit Performance honoring Linda Lavin & Marvin Hamlisch Written By Scott Hayes CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *A Chorus Line* Conceived and Originally Directed by Michael Bennett Book: James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: Edward Kleban Ives Lives An Evening of 6 One-Acts from the Collection of 14 Plays - "All in the Timing" By David Ives *Merrily We Roll Along* Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: George Furth Based on a play by George Kaufman & Moss Hart 1995-96 SEASON BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL IV *Singer/Songwriter Diane Ponzio* By Diane Ponzio *Spiritual Hospital* By Steven Sater *Te Amo! Te Adoro!* By Pascual Olivera *The Last Bodega* By Luis Callabero *The Red Music Box* with violist Rozanna Weinberger and performance artist Christopher Eaves *The Translation* By D. Lee Miller *Top of the Heap* Music: Jeffrey Lodin Book & Lyrics: William Squier *True Story* By Cass Morgan BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL III *Blood Brothers* By Yolanda Smith *Built for Abuse* By Joshua James *Checkers* By Steven Sater *Confronting Demons* By Paul Sambol *Fables From the Forest's Edge* Book: Peter Mattaliano Original Songs & Score: Stephen Jankowski *Key West* By Jennifer Camp *Lullabies for Mary Rose* Written and Composed By Kenneth T. Jennings *One Tough Cookie* Book: Rita Nachtman Music: Brian Lasser Lyrics: Gary Gardner & Brian Lasser *Sing for Your Supper* Book: Lawence Arancio Music: Ralph Affumado, Mark Blitzstein, Al Jacobs, Curt Kremer, Ned Lehac, Harry Ruby & Alfred Solman Lyrics: Mark Blitzstein, Ray Golden, Bert Kalmer, Sid Kuller, John LaTouche, David Lowenstein, Daisy Paskman, Don Ray, Sid Silvers, Rob Sour, Al Stillman and Hector Troy *The Sewer* By Mary MacDonald, Ben Model, Maryanne Murray, Charlie Shanian, Shari Simpson *Top Of The Heap* Book & Lyrics: William Squier Music: Jeffrey Lodin *Unrequited Love* By Melissa Maxwell CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill* Lyrics: Maxwell Anderson, Mar Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Jacques Deval, Michael Feingold, Ira Gershwin, Paul Green, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Ogden Nash, George Arnold Weinstein Music: Kurt Weill Text: Gene Lerner Musical Arrangement: Newton Wayland *Nine* Book: Arthur Kopit Music Lyrics: Maury Yeston 1994-95 SEASON BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL II *Dead Reckoning* By Lawrence Arancio *Fables* By Peter Mattaliano *Flesh, Blood or Gods* By Mark Loewenstern *Jeannette Miller in Concert* By Jeanette Miller *La Vie En Rose* By Francine Roussel & Jean Brassard *Mother, Father, Gay Son* By Mike Teele *One Tough Cookie* Music: Brian Lasser Book & Lyrics: Gary Gardner *Paree* Book: Scott Hayes Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter *Tales of An Adolescent Fruit Fly* By Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder *The Dark Kalamazoo* By Oni Faida Lampley *Womanswords/2* By Brenda Thomas BLACKJACKS FESTIVAL I *A Ritual for Returning* By Coleen Hubbard *An Evening with Patty Katz* By Patty Katz *An Evening with Steve Hayes* By Steve Hayes *Bright Girls, Stupid Lives* By Judy Sheehan *Confessions of a Relationship Addict* By Cory Kahaney *Fairies in Tinseltown* By Mike Teele *Go To Your Womb* By Debra Barsha *Headlines* Conceived and directed By Lizz Manners & Karen Sanders *Menage A Deux* By Robert Shaffron *Nauseous Beneath the Stars* By Janine Winter *Norma* By Ed Dixon *Pianist Maggie Harth* Performing her original piano composition *Rappacini's Daughter* Book: Sarah Knapp Music: Steven M. Alper *Sing For Your Supper* By Lawrence Arancio *Steps* By Craig Green *Sweet Colinda* By Stephen Serpas *The Quickening* By D. Lee Miller CONSERVATORY PRODUCTIONS *And The World Goes 'Round* Lyrics: Fred Ebb Music: John Kander Conceived By Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman and David Thompson *Doing A USO Show* Conceived and Written By The Company *Starting Here, Starting Now* Lyrics: Richard Maltby Music: David Shire