New Reprise! Season to Include 3 Abbott Shows and 'Abner'

On Your Toes, Damn Yankees, Li'l Abner and Flora, the Red Menace will comprise the 2007-2008 Reprise! Broadway's Best season.

For the first time, the theatre - which presents staged concerts of musicals - is offering four shows rather than three.  All productions are performed at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

On Your Toes, with a score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and a book by George Abbott, will be performed from August 14th through 26th.  The show, whose score includes the title song and "There's a Small Hotel," among others, concerns a jealous ballerina who hires a gangster to knock off a rival dancer during a ballet premiere.

Damn Yankees, with a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross and a book by Abbott and Douglass Wallop (based on Wallop's novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant), will be performed from November 6th through 18th.  The classic musical concerns a Faustian deal between the devil and a Washington Senators fan.

L'il Abner, with a score by Gene DePaul and Johnny Mercer and a book by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, will run from February 4th through 17th.  Based on the classic comics of Al Capp, L'il Abner follows the denizens of a small town called Dogpatch.

Flora, the Red Menace, with a book by Abbott and Robert Russell and a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, will be performed from May 6th through 18th.  An unlikely love story between a fashion designer and a communist, Flora, the Red Menace earned a Tony for Liza Minnelli in her Broadway debut.

Casting and more information will be announced.

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