NEWSIES

1. Source Material

2. Composer

3. Lyricist

4. Theatre at which Produced

5. Future Plans

6. Synopsis

7. Major Changes

1. 1992 Disney Movie

2. Alan Menken

3. Jack Feldman

4. Papermill Playhouse

5. Opens on Broadway at Nederlander Theater on April March 15, 2012

6. Based on the true story of the 1899 Paperboy Strike against Joseph Pulitzer after newspaper prices are raised by 10¢. Jack Kelly and David Jacobs lead strike.

7. Love story more prominent and more music 

It Shoulda Been You

1. Director

2. Theater at which it is being produced

3. Synopsis

1. David Hyde Pierce

2. George Street Playhouse

3. Bride is Jewish. Groom is Catholic. Mother's don't get along. Bride's ex-boyfriend shows up. Disaster wedding. Sister stuck to fix it. Wedding planner stuck in the middle.

Godspell Revival

1. Composer/Lyricist

2. Critical Reaction

3. Changes from original

1. Stephen Schwartz

2. Meant to be timeless, but new production dated the story of Jesus and the Apostles. Gave wrong message. Lead actor good on softer songs, but wasn't edgy enough when it came to rougher songs. Show is really energetic and fun, but wished for softer moments. The softer moments that were there were good.

3. Made it more modern by fixing music and incorporating different music styles including rap. Period jokes were modernized. Orchestartions by Michael Holland more hard-charging.

Queen Of The Mist

1. Composer/ Lyricist

2. Synopsis

1. Michael John LaChuisa

2. 63 year old woman takes a deathly fall over the Nigara Falls in a barrell and lives. She then vows to never live an ordinary life. 

Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway

1. Background

2. Repetoire in show

3. Critical Response

1. The Boy From Oz (Tony Award)

Wolverine in X-Men Movies

Oklahoma! in London's West End

Australlian

2. "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning"

"Over The Rainbow"

"One Night Only"

"Soliloquy"

"I Won't Dance"

"I Happen To Like New York"

"On Broadway"

"Mack the Knife"

3. Very good critical response

Bring It On: The Musical

1. Writers

2. Source Material

3. Synopsis

4. Previous Production

5. Critical Response

1. Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuela Miranda, Amanda Green, Jeff Whitty

2. Bring It On movies

3. Cheerleading competition

4. 

5. Book considered choppy and characters bland. Performers were good. 

Bonnie and Clyde 

1. Composer

2. Lyricist

3. Source Material

4. Previous Productions

1. Frank Wildhorn

2. Don Black

3. Based on the lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the famous bank bandits

4. Asolo Repatory Theater

LaJolla Playhouse

Gerald Schoenfeld Theater

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

1. Composer

2. Lyricist

3. Original Production

4. Synopsis

5. Leading actor

6. Director

7. Changes from the original production

1. Burton Lane

2. Alan Jay Lerner

3. Opened October 17, 1965

280 Performances

4. Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking, to please her finacee, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them

5. Harry Connick Jr.

6. Michael Mayer

7. Daisy is now David

Lysistrata Jones

1. Synopsis

2. Previous production

1. Girls refuse to give boys sex because they have not won a basketball game in 30 years

2. Off-Broadway with Transport Group

Staged at a gym in Greenwich Village

Once

1. Synopsis

An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin

1. Background of each

Patti LuPone: Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Anything Goes, London Original Cast of Les Mis, Evita, studied at Julliard for acting

Mandy Patinkin: Evita, Sunday In The Park With George, Princess Bride, Wild Party (LaChuisa)

Jesus Christ Superstar

1. Composer

2. Lyricist

3. Synopsis

4. Original Production

5. History of Current Production

1. Andrew Lloyd Weber

2. Tim Rice

3. The musical is based very loosely on the Gospels' account of the last week of Jesus' life, beginning with the preparation for the arrival of Jesus and his disciples in Jerusalem, and ending with the crucifixion. It highlights political and interpersonal struggles between Judas Iscariot and Jesus, struggles that are not in the Bible. The resurrection is not included. It therefore largely follows the form of a traditional passion play.

4. October 1971, 711 Performances

5. Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Porgy and Bess

1. Composer

2. Lyricst

3. Source material

4. Original production

5. Controversy of production

6. Critical repsonse

7. Major performers

1. George Gershwin

2. Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward

3. Book by: DuBose and Dorothy Heyward

4. 1953, 124 performances

5. Changes in plot to reveal more back story of characters

6. Audra McDonald is fantastic

7. Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis

Funny Girl

1. Composer

2. Lyricist

3. Source material

4. Synopsis

5. Original production

6. Information about production

1. Jule Styne

2. Bob Merrill

3. Story by Isobel Lennart

4.The musical is set in and around New York City just prior to and following World War I. Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice, awaiting the return of her husband, Nick Arnstein, from prison, reflects on their life together, and their story is told as a flashback
5. 1964, 1348 performances

6. Not going to Broadway way. Was scheduled for Imperial Theater, but financially not supported enough 

Carrie

1. Synopsis

2. Original production

3. Background of production

1. Adapted from Stephen King's novel Carrie, it focuses on an awkward teenage girl with telekinetic powers whose lonely life is dominated by an oppressive religious fanatic mother. When she is humiliated by her classmates at the high school prom, she wreaks havoc on everyone and everything in her path. Francis X. Clines, in The New York Times (March 2, 1988) noted that Carrie is "Mr. King's carmine variation on Cinderella".

2. 1988, 5 performances

3. Book and score getting reworked

Merrily We Roll Along

1. Composer/ Lyricist

2. Source Material

3. Original Production

4. Director

5. Encores!

1. Stephen Sondheim

2. Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play of same name

3. 1981, 16 performances

4. James Lapine

5. Program presented by New York City Center since 1994 dedicatd to performing full scores of musicals rarely heard in NY, concert style, with relatively short runs. Runs from Februrary 8-19

Rebecca

1. Source material:

2. Synopsis:

3. Background of production:

1. Novel of same name by Daphne du Maurier

2. Follows novel closely.  Story of Maxim de Winter, his new wife (“I”), and manipulative housekeeper of his estate, Mrs. Danvers.  The memory of his first wife, Rebecca, still haunts him.

3. Premiered in Vienna, where it played to sold-out audiences for three years.  There was a New York reading in March 2011, in which Sierra Boggess played “I,” the role she will play in the full production.  Will be based on Vienna staging.

Ghost

 1. Source material:

2. Synopsis:

3. Background of production:

1. 1990 romantic drama film of same name

2.  Lovers Sam and Molly are attacked one night while returning to their apartment, and Sam dies.  He becomes caught between this life and the afterlife, and when Molly’s life comes into danger, he uses a medium to warn her.

3. Premiered at Manchester Opera House, opened on West End in July 2011.

Evita

1. Source material:

2. Synopsis:

3. Leading actor:

4.  Composer/Lyricist

1. TV film about Eva Peron, “Queen of Hearts,” and (allegedly) Mary Main’s biography Evita: The Woman with the Whip

2. Based on the life of Eva Duarte, who leaves home for Buenos Aires with Latin singer Agustin Magaldi, and eventually sleeps her way to becoming the wife of President Juan Peron and heroine to the people of Argentina.

3. Rick Martin has top billing, but Eva is played by Elena Roger

4. Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice

Nice Work If You Can Get It 

1. Composer/Lyricist

2. Leading actors

3. Director/Choreographer

4. Synopsis

1. George & Ira Gershwin

2. Matthew Broderick & Kelli O’Hara

3. Kathleen Marshall

4. Features Gershwin music, and a book by Joe DiPietro.  Follows bootlegger Billie Bendix as she meets wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter on the weekend of his wedding.