Twyla Tharp's Dylan Project to Premiere Jan '06 in San Diego

Now set for a 2006 premiere, Twyla Tharp's Bob Dylan Project is now set to make its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre from January 25 - March 5, 2006. Auditions are currently taking place in New York, for the show which will be set to a pop score from the Bob Dylan catalogue. The show is said to differ from Twarp's Movin' Out, by featuring multiple singers.

Twyla Tharp has choreographed more than 125 dances, five Hollywood movies, directed and choreographed two Broadway shows, written two books and received a Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, seventeen honorary doctorates, the Vietnam Veterans of America President's Award and numerous grants including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the 2004 National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ms. Tharp's work first went to Broadway in 1980 with When We Were Very Young, followed in 1981 by her collaboration with David Byrne on The Catherine Wheel at The Winter Garden; and her 1985 staging of Singin' in the Rain, which played at the Gershwin for three hundred sixty seven performances, followed by an extensive national tour. In 2002, Ms. Tharp and Billy Joel's award-winning dance musical Movin' Out premiered on Broadway, and a national tour opened in January 2004. Both companies are still playing. The recipient of the 2003 Tony Award for Movin' Out, Ms. Tharp was also honored with the 2003 Astaire Award; the Drama League Award for Sustained achievement in Musical Theater; and both the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critic's Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography.

Bob Dylan is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed songwriters, musicians and performers, having sold more than 90 million albums and performed literally thousands of shows around the world in a career spanning five decades. His most recent studio albums, Time Out Of Mind and Love & Theft have been among his most commercially successful and critically lauded each having sold more than a million copies and earning Grammy nominations for Album of The Year (Time Out of Mind won that award in 1998). The first volume of his Chronicles was one of the most acclaimed and best-selling non-fiction works of 2004. His Bob Dylan show is currently on tour in the United States.

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