42nd St. Moon Announces Upcoming Season Including BABES IN ARMS & STRIKE UP THE BAND

Greg MacKellan, artistic director of 42nd Street Moon, and Stephanie Rhoads, producing director, today announced details of the upcoming 2010-11 season of uncommon musical theater. For its eighteenth season, merriment abounds in a season rife with Lovers, Liars and Clowns at the Eureka Theatre. The great American composers, lyricists, and librettists featured in 2010-11 are Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, John Kander and Fred Ebb, George S. Kaufman, Stephen Sondheim and more.

The five shows for 2010-11 are A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, MURDER FOR TWO, BABES IN ARMS, STRIKE UP THE BAND, and SILK STOCKINGS. The season also continues the multi-year celebration of the musicals of composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Ira Gershwin, as well as the special series of Salon Evenings at the Alcazar Theatre.

"For our eighteenth season, we wanted to move outside the 42nd Street Moon ‘template' a bit, so we're opening the season with the classic A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and the wickedly clever new musical MURDER FOR TWO," MacKellan said. "Of course, ‘Lovers, Liars and Clowns' is a quote from Stephen Sondheim's ‘Comedy Tonight' in Forum, but it aptly describes the shows we've picked for 10-11 - SILK STOCKINGS and STRIKE UP THE BAND are awash in romance as well as comedy, laughter is king in FORUM and BABES IN ARMS, and MURDER FOR TO is a musical of secrets - you never know who's telling the truth."

The 2010-11 Season opens on October 6 with a special production of Broadway's greatest musical farce, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (1962). 42nd Street Moon celebrates composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday year with his fast-paced, witty and irreverent show - the perfect escape from life's troubles. Stephen Sondheim's score and Larry Gelbart's book take comedy back to its roots, combining situations from the comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. A special "Moon" twist will bring Megan Cavanagh (star of the film "A League of Their Own" and "Moon's Jubilee and High Spirits") back to the stage as the wily slave, Pseudolus.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM will run from October 6 through October 24.

The season will continue with MURDER FOR TWO running from November 3 through 21, BABES IN ARMS running from December 1 through December 19, STRIKE UP THE BAND running from April 6 through April 24, and finally SILK STOCKINGS running from May 4 through May 22.

For more information or to order tickets, visit the 42nd Street Moon online at 42ndstmoon.org.