Grand Hotel didn’t win the Tony for Best Musical - though it was nominated - but a 2005 revival won the Laurence Olivier Award in London. The Signature production, which Eric Schaeffer will direct, will feature McAllister, Diaz, Bobby Smith and Nicki Elledge.
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This Luther Davis - Robert Wright - George Forrest musical is set in 1928 Berlin, where everything was free and easy until it was not. Next spring, Signature will perform the slice-of-life musical Grand Hotel: the Musicalat the MAX theater. Nadia Tass will direct from February 26 to March 31, 2019. McDonald has been gestating this play for a while - it was featured in an Arena Stage showing of plays in progress in 2014 - but it’s ready now to be staged with local megatalents Holly Twyford and Felicia Curry. From January 23 to March 10 of next year.Īlso next winter, Signature will be performing the world premiere of DC Playwright Heather McDonald’s Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, a story about an art restorer taken captive in an absurd hundred-year-long war and compelled to restore a damaged Rembrandt. Payton and Awa Sal Secka, who was last featured in Signature’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar, doing (if the production is the traditional one) thirty-one songs. This two-act production, which Calarco will direct, will feature Kevin McAllister, Nova Y. – Murray Horowitz-created musical revue featuring music by the great Fats and lyrics by a slew of collaborators. Signature opens the new year with another Tony-winning musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Fats Waller Musical Show, the Richard Maltby Jr. Gardiner will direct this show, which features music by Elton John. From September 18 to November 11 of this year.įor the last two months of the year, Signature will be producing the Broadway mega-smash, Billy Elliot: The Musical, the Tony-Award winning musical in which an 11-year-old boy, the son of a British miner about to embark on a doomed strike, wants more than anything in the world to become a dancer. Is she a dangerous stalker, a lovelorn nut with a thing for older men, or a con artist zeroing in on her prey? These are not mutually exclusive options….The range of possibilities between the spaces in ‘Heisenberg’ resonates in your mind long after it’s over the unheard melody lingers on.” Joe Calarco will direct this latest play by Stephens, who is best known for his theatrical adaptation, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. If this sounds like a 30’s screwball comedy, here’s the take of the New York Times’ Ben Brantley: “Alex, understandably, retreats and disappears. In the Ark, Signature will be producing another play about a woman’s unquenchable passion: Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg, in which a young woman, getting off a train, falls passionately and inexplicably in love with a much older man - a reticent Irish butcher in retirement. Natascia Diaz plays Fosca in this Matthew Gardiner-directed production.
Here’s the catch: Giorgio is already in love with another woman - and Fosca is the cousin of Giorgio’s superior officer. In it, Giorgio, an army captain in 1860s Italy is transferred to a remote outpost, where the beautiful but ailing Fosca falls passionately in love with him. Lapine and Sondheim famously created Into the Woods together, but the lesser known Passion also won the Best Musical Tony.
Signature opens its season with James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim collaboration Passion. Next season, look for musicals, dramas and cabarets at Signature Theatre But this year, Signature is announcing not only next year’s productions, but some of the artists who will be making them happen. Signature Theatre’s 2018-2019 follows the familiar contours of recent seasons.
A Sondheim, a couple of Broadway hits, a couple of brand spankin’ new shows, and a boatload of cabarets.
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