40th Anniversary Season
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
announces complete 7-play 2013-14 season.
Becky’s New Car & Rich Girl round out the line-up.
Single tickets go on sale Wednesday, August 14.
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ONE DAY SALE – AUGUST 14!
$25 tickets for
One Man, Two Guvnors ● Water by the Spoonful ● Becky’s New Car
All handling fees waived!
(For performances in the first 10 days of each production, side section seating. Box Office open from 10am to 5pm)
Two Acclaimed American Musicals
WORKING — a new, updated version of the Stephen Schwartz musical based on Studs Terkel’s magnificent oral history
INTO THE WOODS — Spiro Veloudos, an award-winning Sondheim specialist, takes on this delightful fractured fairytale.
One of the Greatest Classics of the American Theatre
DEATH OF A SALESMAN — humor and anguish, promise and loss, all set between the four walls of an American living room.
Four Boston Premieres
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS — the British comedy that took Broadway by storm, based on Goldoni’s hilarious The Servant of Two Masters.
WATER BY THE SPOONFUL — the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about hope and human connection in a harsh and destabilizing world.
BECKY’S NEW CAR — a clever and witty new comedy about a woman trying to escape the midlife doldrums.
RICH GIRL — a modern take on the classic play and film The Heiress.
7-play and 4-play subscriptions are now on sale for the 2013-14 season which runs from September, 2013 through June, 2014. Prices start at $152 and offer savings of up to 35% off regular ticket prices (that’s like getting 2 plays for free.)
2013-14 SEASON PLAY DESCRIPTIONS
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
by Richard Bean
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
September 6 – October 5, 2013
Richard Bean’s award-winning play is a glorious celebration of British comedy: a unique, LAUGH OUT-LOUD MIX OF SATIRE, SONGS, SLAPSTICK, and glittering one-liners. Based on The Servant of Two Masters, Carlo Goldoni’s 18th-century Italian comedy, it gives you a funhouse parade of fools, lovers, clowns, parents, and pompous asses.
“On a laughs-per-minute basis, One Man, Two Guvnors gives The Book of Mormon a run for its funny!” — Hollywood Reporter
WATER BY THE SPOONFUL
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by Scott Edmiston
October 18 – November 16, 2013
This PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAY is a moving collage of lives in crisis. A group of seemingly unrelated characters search for human connection in a harsh and destabilizing world, looking for hope among their new-found “family.” One by one, the troubled souls find acceptance, connection, even redemption, in this lyrical and lucid new play.
“A beautiful, heartbreaking knockout of a play, as startling and innovative and human on the page as on the stage.”
— Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Drown
BECKY’S NEW CAR
by Steven Dietz
Directed by Larry Coen
November 29 – December 22, 2013
Becky’s life isn’t exactly unhappy — but from her desk at a car dealership she can’t help but wonder what else is out there. And then she finds out. When a wealthy suitor presumes she is a widow, she finds herself leading a double life that quickly accelerates out of her control. This CLEVER AND WITTY NEW COMEDY takes us on one woman’s unexpected, hilarious, and ultimately moving escape from the midlife doldrums.
“A satisfying comedy of modern manners . . . one that derives as much power from its humanity as its fine-tuned craftsmanship.”
— Seattle Times
WORKING
Book by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso. With additional contributions by Gordon Greenberg. Songs by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor. From the book by Studs Terkel.
Directed and choreographed by Ilyse Robbins
January 3 – February 1, 2014
From the everyday lives of “ordinary” working people comes a musical that is anything BUT ordinary! Adapted by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Godspell, Wicked) from Studs Terkel’s magnificent oral history, Working reveals the hopes, dreams, joys, and concerns of average Americans by following them through one 24-hour workday. Newly updated for the 21st century, Schwartz wrote the songs along with James Taylor and others, with three new additions by Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), creating an INSPIRED, ECLECTIC, TUNEFUL, MOVING, AND UPLIFTING score.
“Working’s celebration of even the most seemingly marginal contributions as intrinsic elements of nation-building gives it stirring resonance.” — New York Times
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
February 14 – March 15, 2014
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a MILESTONE OF THE AMERICAN THEATER. In the person of Willy Loman — the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine — Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. This magnificent work compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.
“One of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater!” — Brooks Atkinson, New York Times
RICH GIRL
by Victoria Stewart
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
March 28 – April 26, 2014
When sheltered Claudine meets starving artist Henry, she falls head over heels. But her mother, a tough-talking celebrity financial guru, has her doubts: Is Henry everything her daughter deserves or is he only after her money? Rich Girl, a modern day take on the classic play and film The Heiress, is a CLEVER NEW COMEDY ABOUT WOMEN and their relationships with MEN, MOTHERS, AND MONEY – and not necessarily in that order.
”Intriguing . . . highly appealing!” — New York Times
INTO THE WOODS
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine
Directed by Spiro Veloudos
May 9 – June 7, 2014
When a Baker and his Wife learn they’ve been cursed by the Witch next door, they embark into the woods on a quest to reverse that spell. Along the way they encounter an ambivalent Cinderella, an aggressive Red Riding Hood, a rebellious Rapunzel, a too-trusting Jack, and a couple of not-so-princely Princes. But when everyone’s wishes are granted, the consequences of their self-centered actions come to haunt them. Eventually they learn a MOVING LIFE LESSON about working together, the stories we tell our children, and the real meaning of “happily ever after.”
“A wonderful muddle of Grimm fairy tales . . . extraordinary lyrics and subtle yet enormously complex music.” — L.A. Times
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40th Anniversary Season ● 2013-14
One Man, Two Guvnors ● Water by the Spoonful ● Becky’s New Car
Working ● Death of a Salesman ● Rich Girl ● Into the Woods