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SOUTH COAST REPERTORY WILL OPEN ITS 2009-2010 season with Putting It Together, a celebration of the music of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim and will shine the spotlight later in the season on the up-and-coming musical theatre composer and lyricist, Adam Gwon. The lineup includes World Premieres by Bathsheba Doran, Julie Marie Myatt and Howard Korder, and a West Coast Premiere by Noah Haidle. SCR will also mount revivals of two Pulitzer Prize winners: Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart and August Wilson’s Fences.
“SCR has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with Beth Henley, dating back to our 1985 commission and World Premiere of The Debutante Ball,” said Producing Artistic Director David Emmes. “We are so pleased to be able to present Beth’s Crimes of the Heart, which has become an American classic.”
“This season we also continue to nurture our longstanding relationships with playwrights Noah Haidle, Howard Korder and Julie Marie Myatt, and are thrilled to introduce the exciting young composer and lyricist Adam Gwon to Southern California,” added Artistic Director Martin Benson.
The Segerstrom Stage Season, which begins with Putting It Together, culls the master composer’s most memorable songs from such classic musicals as Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Company, Merrily We Roll Along, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd.
Noah Haidle (Mr. Marmalade and Princess Marjorie) returns to Costa Mesa with the West Coast Premiere of Saturn Returns. Next up are two classic plays by two extraordinary playwrights. August Wilson’s Fences is the sixth in his historic ten-play cycle chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century. And Beth Henley returns to the Segerstrom Stage with Crimes of the Heart. SCR audiences have delighted in Henley’s Southern Gothic oeuvre with the World Premieres of Henley’s Abundance and The Debutante Ball, and most recently, the West Coast Premiere of Ridiculous Fraud.
The Julianne Argyros Stage Season will see the World Premiere of Julie Marie Myatt’s The Happy Ones, set in 1970s Orange County. Starting off the new year is Ordinary Days, a musical about four young New Yorkers trying to find their way in the world, connecting through a series of fortuitous events.
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Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Spearman (obscured) Mark Harelik and Rob King in the world premiere of Howard Korder's The Hollow Lands in 2000.
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Playwright Howard Korder returns with the World Premiere of In a Garden, a drama about an American architect in a Middle Eastern country. Korder has long been associated with SCR. His play Boys’ Life was the first NewSCRipts public reading in 1985 and went on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. SCR has also presented the World Premieres of The Hollow Lands and Search and Destroy.
The popular Theatre for Young Audiences Season starts off with the sassy musical, Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business based on the bestselling series of children’s books by Barbara Park. John Glore, SCR’s Associate Artistic Director, has created a new adaptation of the beloved classic A Wrinkle in Time. The final selection of the TYA season is the SCR-commissioned World Premiere of a modern-day fairy tale, Ben and the Magic Paintbrush by Bathsheba Doran.
Two additional World Premiere productions will be produced on the Segerstrom and Julianne Argyros Stages as part of the 2010 Pacific Playwrights Festival. SCR will select the most exciting possibilities from a rich pool of commissioned plays.
The 2009-2010 Season will also include the holiday favorite, A Christmas Carol, celebrating its 30th season — and Hal Landon Jr.’s 30th year as the world’s most famous miser!
See more information about the new season here.
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