A ROOM WITH A VIEW Completes Old Globe's 2011-12 Season

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that the World Premiere of the musical A Room with a View, with a book by Marc Acito, music by Jeffrey Stock (Triumph of Love) and lyrics by Acito and Stock, will complete the Globe's 2011-12 Winter Season. Scott Schwartz will direct the new work based on the classic novel by E.M. Forster. A Room with a View will run in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, March 2 - April 8, 2012. Opening night is Saturday, March 10. Tickets to the Globe's 2011-12 Winter Season are currently available by subscription only. Subscription prices range from $104.50 to $548. Subscription packages may be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office.

A Room with a View blends a gorgeous score with the timeless story that inspired the Academy Award-winning film. Amid the golden sunlight and violet-covered hills of Tuscany, shelterEd English girl Lucy Honeychurch meets freethinking George Emerson and for the first time glimpses a world of longing and passion she had never imagined. Upon her return to her corseted Edwardian life, Lucy must decide whether to yield to convention or give up everything she has ever known.

Spisto commented: "I really believe in this work, and I think our audience will enjoy being part of its launch. The score is stunning, and the story feels so right as a stage musical - these characters really do need to sing."

As previously announced, the Globe's 2011-12 Winter Season also features the World Premiere musicals Some Lovers by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award winner Steven Sater and Nobody Loves You by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, as well as the West Coast Premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, recently nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. The two plays receiving World Premiere productions are Somewhere by Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez and The Recommendation by Jonathan Caren. The new season also includes Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, the West Coast premiere of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate and the Eugene O'Neill classic Anna Christie directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn.

Marc Acito is the author of the popular comic novel How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater, which won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, was Editors' Choice by The New York Times and was chosen as a Top Teen Pick by the American Library Association. Translated into five languages, it also inspired a sequel, Attack of the Theater People. Acito's play Birds of a Feather, which tells the true story of the nationwide controversy caused by gay penguins in the Central Park Zoo, will receive its world premiere at The Hub Theatre in Fairfax, Virginia in July, 2011. He also co-wrote with award-winning screenwriter C.S. Whitcomb the twisted Christmas comedy Holidazed, which ran for two seasons at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon. With composer Amy Engelhardt of the "band without instruments" The Bobs, he's created Bastard Jones, a rock musical adaptation of Henry Fielding's raucous The History of Tom Jones. A former professional opera singer, Acito regularly performs "singing commentaries" on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." His humor column, "The Gospel According to Marc," ran in 19 alternative newspapers nationwide. A product of the musical theater program at Carnegie Mellon University, Acito graduated from Colorado College, which in 2009 awarded him an honorary doctorate. He lives in New York City, where he teaches story structure to writers of all genres at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Jeffrey Stock composes a wide range of music, from Broadway musicals to orchestral works and opera. He composed the music for the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical Triumph of Love, starring Betty Buckley, F. Murray Abraham and Susan Egan. The show was named by USA Today as the Best New Musical of 1997-98. The New Yorker raved: "Smart, fresh and funny... Jeffrey Stock makes a remarkable Broadway debut." The New York Post wrote: "I was enthralled by Jeffrey Stock's score... dazzling!" Triumph of Love has received over 100 productions at theaters around the country and in Europe and Japan. Stock's symphonic and choral commission Lulie the Iceberg premiered at Carnegie Hall featuring the world's most renowned cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, and narrated by Sam Waterston. Based on a book by HIH Princess Takamado of Japan, Lulie the Iceberg was recorded on Sony Classical and has also been performed and televised in Europe. Stock received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition and the Jonathan Larson Grant (a memorial fund for the composer of Rent). He was one of the composers of the Off Broadway musical Songs from an Unmade Bed, which was presented to great acclaim at New York Theatre Workshop. He wrote the music and libretto for The Voice of Temperance, an operetta based on Prohibition texts, commissioned by The Public Theater in 1995. Stock also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to write the score and libretto for a new opera based on Boccaccio's Decameron, entitled Lodovico. He has won residencies at artist colonies including McDowell, Millay and Blue Mountain Center. He has lectured extensively in Beijing and Shanghai. He spent several years living in Bali, Indonesia, intensively studying the local language, customs and music. In 1994 he had the opportunity to study in Japan with legendary composer Toru Takemitsu. He received a B.A. in music from Yale University.

Scott Schwartz directed the Broadway productions of Golda's Balcony and Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird). He recently directed Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound in repertory in the Old Globe Theatre and Lost in Yonkers in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre at The Old Globe. His Off Broadway work includes Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), tick, tick... BOOM! (Outer Critics Circle, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Rooms: A Rock Romance, The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick (Roundabout Theatre Company), Kafka's The Castle (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play), Miss Julie and No Way to Treat a Lady. He also directed Golda's Balcony on tour, in London, in Los Angeles at the Wadsworth Theatre and in San Francisco at American Conservatory Theater. He directed the World Premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon, a new opera starring Lauren Flanigan, at Opera Santa Barbara and subsequently at New York City Opera. Schwartz's other recent credits include Arsenic and Old Lace starring Tovah Feldshuh and Betty Buckley (Dallas Theater Center), Othello and Much Ado About Nothing (Alley Theatre), Reckless (The Denver Center for the Performing Arts) and a re-envisioning of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under The Stars, Theatre on the Square and North Shore Music Theatre; 2008 IRNE Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical). Schwartz is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an Associate Artist at Alley Theatre and a graduate of Harvard University.

SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS offer substantial savings with special subscriber benefits. Subscriptions can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE [234-5623] or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park. Subscriptions to the Globe's 2011-12 Winter Season range from $104.50 to $548. Eight-play packages range from $182 to $548. Four-play packages range from $104.50 to $348. Discounts are available for full-time students, patrons 29 years of age and younger, seniors and groups of 10 or more.

LOCATION: The Old Globe is located in San Diego's Balboa Park at 1363 Old Globe Way. There are numerous free parking lots available throughout the park. Valet parking is also available ($10). For additional parking information visit www.BalboaPark.org.

 

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