Saturday, May 27, 2006

Looking Back at the 2005-2006 Season

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May 28, 2006

A dizzying 101 performances. Fewer highs, lows, new works (though still impressive: I saw 22). Seemingly larger audiences. Good year for kids; not bad for musicals. Abundant local talent (especially leading men; designers with budgets), but still wishing for more directors with clearer vision. Followspot now averages 180 visits daily.


A Lie of the Mind

A Thought About Raya
A Year with Frog and Toad
Alcestis
Alexander, Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move!
Alice in Bed
"and then ..."
Ardiente Paciencia
Assassins
Broadway Bound

Broadway Goes Christmas: Haulin' Out the Holidays
Bug
Burn This
By the Bog of Cats
Bye Bye Birdie
Celebrity Row
Chicago
City of Gold
Clean
Crime and Punishment
Crowns
Dirty Story
D.O.A.: A Primer for the Afterlife
Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights
Dog Opera
Dreampuffs of Lorna
Electra
Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue
Elysium
Enchanted April
Far Away
Faust. Us. (version 2.0)
Ferdinand the Bull
Footloose, The Musical
Forever Plaid
Fourteen Hundred Thousand and Mud
Frankenstein
Frozen
Ganymede's Mead
Going to St. Ives
Goodbye Oscar
Hair
Hello, Dolly!
Hit Me in the Stomach
I Am A Superhero
Kindred
La Noche Eterna
Like I Say
Love's Labors: Lost & Found
"Manos" The Hands of Fate
Men on the Verge 2 [full production]

Men on the Verge 2 (The Self-Esteem Files) [workshop production]
Mi Vida Gitana
Mitlaufer
Nixon's Nixon
Nunsense
Oleanna
Omnium Gatherum
One: The Musical
Owen Meany's Christmas Pageant
Peter Pan
Pride and Prejudice
Rapture
Redwood Curtain
Salome
Seussical, the Musical
Shell Games
Silence (Buffini)
Silence (Stallings)
Talking With
Talley & Son
Talley's Folly
The Fantasticks
The Fever
The Flu Season
The Front Page
The Full Monty
The Giver
The Hyacinth Macaw
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
The Laramie Project
The Lion in Winter
The Lonesome West
The Love of the Nightingale
The Mark
The Melody Lingers On: The Songs of Irving Berlin
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Mousetrap
The Music Man

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
The Real Inspector Hound
The Seagull
The (Second Annual) Cold Comedy Concoction
The War Project: 9 Acts of Determination
The Water Principle
The Wrestling Season
Theater District
This Wonderful Life
Tommy
Underneath the Lintel
Urinetown
Varekei
Write Myself a Letter

      3 comments:

      Anonymous said...

      (My apologies for this showing up under Theater District...bit hungover)

      Loved Faust. Us.(2.0), Bug, City Of Gold, Afterschool Girlfight Kill Kill, Assassins. Some other very good stuff this year, but these shows stood out.

      Anonymous said...

      Glad to see you are getting more hits a day. This site has been a great conversation during many a post-show 'whine' and beer fest. Thanks!

      Anonymous said...

      I also saw 22 of these shows. My favorites: A Year with Frog and Toad and The Full Monty. Gotta love Leif Norby.