Portland Center Stage 2007-2008 Season Announcement
Cabaret
A Christmas Carol
The Beard of Avon
Tweflth Night
Sometimes a Great Notion
Doubt
The Underpants
A Feminine Ending
The Little Dog Laughed
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15 comments:
Looks pretty good overall, though I'm not thrilled about ANOTHER Christmas Carol. But I guess you gotta bring in the money, right?
Very excited to see Little Dog Laughed. Caught it on Broadway last year and loved it.
I think Christmas Carol should be done every Christmas by someone, even if they're just reading it out loud. Sam Mowry & Cindy McGeon do live readings with a bunch of local actors who volunteer, just join in the tradition.
The story is totally part of my Christmas tradition, as is watching It's a Wonderful Life, The Grinch, Rudolph, Frosty, Love Actually, Miracle on 34th Street, et al.
AND
It's damned good literature. I say: Give me the Dickens!
Deb, are you on staff at Portland Center Stage?
No. NOt at all.
Sometimes a Great Notion is going to be a difficult play to produce. Saw a staged reading of it and even with extremely talented actors (except for the two lovers who bored me to tears) it was a dated and poorly written script. Good Luck...er..um..break a leg PCS! Hope it works!
Kip- the press release says this one's a world premiere. Was the staged reading the same script?
My question about the show: the book spans three generations and a major natural disaster or two. With lots of logging. And boating. It doesn't seem particularly adaptable to the stage.
Wondering about that myself.
At the season announcement, the actors pretty much did a tandem reading from the novel.
I wish I could remember the name of the playwright, but Chris said the playwright personally met with Kesey's widow (on the bus- you know the one) and after their conversation she gave him the rights to do the script. I didn't get the sense that it is finished. There are some huge challenges where imagination is going to play a big part, I'm sure. I guess we'll see.
I should clarify. It was a "work-in-progress" stage reading (I assume). Again, very capable actors were cast (i.e. Tim True, Damon Kupper, Chris Murray) but the script was lacking. Let's hope the script gets a major over-haul before the world premiere!
aaron posner, artistic director of 2 rivers theater in NJ, and a very respected adaptor and director nationally, is the playwright/director on this, the world premiere of a project he brought to PCS.
Playwrights Horizons is doing "A Feminine Ending" in 2007-2008.
On a related note of PCS interest, PH also doing Adam Bock's "The Drunken City".
Cabaret? I mean, I like Cabaret as much as the next person, but...isn't there anything less tired that PCS could do? West Side Story wasn't exactly a great opener this season...
True!
Though I am looking foward to Cabaret musicals are not their forte' as they have proven w/ Gypsy, My Fair Lady, Fantasticks and WSS.
Bat Boy wasn't bad but.....
Maybe they'd be better suited to something more cutting edge like PARADE.
Well, Lakewood is already doing Oklahoma...
i'm super stoked for doubt
Is Wade doing CABARET?
I heard he is in a national tour during that same time frame?
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