Barrington Stage Company has announced updates in its Musical Theatre Lab schedule.
The Lab's premiere musical, The Burnt Part Boys, has been extended by popular demand through Saturday, July 15 at the Berkshire Athenaeum. Directed by Joe Calarco, The Burnt Part Boys features a book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, and lyrics by Nathan Tysen.Please note the performance schedule for The Burnt Part Boys
for the week of July 12 through the 15 will be Wednesday through
Saturday at 7:30 pm, with a 3:00 pm matinee on Saturday, July 15.
(Tickets are $25 and $30 by calling 413-236-8888).
Travels With My Discontent: A New Musical Revue replaces Meet Mister Future. Performance dates are July 26 through August 6. Travels....features music by Deborah Abramson, and lyrics by Deborah Abramson, William Finn,
Peter Mills, Nathan Tysen and Amanda Yesnowitz, with music direction by
J. Oconer Navarro. Musical Theatre Lab Artistic Producer William Finn (Spelling Bee, Falsettos, Elegies) directs. The cast of Travels With My Discontent includes Charlie Brady (currently featured in The Burnt Part Boys), Katie Clarke (recently finished Lincoln Center's The Light in the Piazza as Clara), Tony Nominee Megan Lawrence (Gladys in The Pajama Game), and Chip Zien (Into the Woods and Falsettos).
According to William Finn, " Travels... is a smart, hilarious - and underneath it all - serious musical revue celebrating the extraordinarily talented Deborah Abramson (Songs of Innocence and Experience with Finn, Marco Polo with Peter Mills)." The design team for Travels… includes
Brian Prather (scenic design), Alejo Vietti (costumes), and D. Benjamin
Courtney (lighting design). The musical director is J. Oconer
Navarro.Ticket prices are $25 and $30. Performances on July 26
and July 27 are $12. The performance schedule, Wednesday through Sunday
at 7:30 pm, with matinees at 3:00 pm, will take place at the Berkshire
Athenaeum, 1 Wendell Avenue at Pittsfield."What happens when you come home to a mess and Mom can't find your Dad's urn of ashes? You get Disorder: A Mother-Daughter Vaudeville, where an excavation unearths a colorful past and chaos ensues," state press notes. Disorder: A Mother/Daughter Vaudeville replaces Dogs That Wear Hats, and will run August 17 through the 27. Directed by Jack Cummings III (Artistic Director of the Transport Group), Disorder features a book by Katie Baldwin, with music Gihieh Lee, and lyrics by Julianne Davis and Katie Baldwin.
Ticket
prices are $25 and $30. Performances on August 17 and 18 are $12. The
performance schedule, Wednesday through Sunday at 7:30 pm, with
matinees at 3:00 pm, will take place at the Berkshire Athenaeum, 1
Wendell Avenue at Pittsfield."Barrington Stage Company, a
professional award-winning Equity theatre, located in the heart of the
Berkshires, in Pittsfield, MA, was co-founded in 1995 by artistic
director Julianne Boyd. BSC is committed to presenting new
productions of undiscovered musicals and plays, in addition to
developing new works for the American Theatre. BSC garnered national
attention with William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's Tony Award-winning musical hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which
began as a workshop at BSC in February, 2004, was produced in its world
premiere to critical acclaim that summer season, prior to taking New
York by storm at Second Stage Theatre and later transferring to
Broadway's Circle-in-the-Square Theatre where it is currently
running." For more information, log on to www.barringtonstageco.org.
