MY FAIR LADY, BUYER & CELLAR, 'MR. BURNS' and More Set for The Lyric Stage's 2015-16 Season

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston announces six productions of the 2015-16 season (one more production will be announced soon.) Celebrating the power of storytelling and music and theatrical transformation, this season will feature PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, Scott Edmiston's reimagined MY FAIR LADY, SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM (starring Leigh Barrett, Christopher Chew, Aimee Doherty, and Sam Simahk), off-Broadway's BUYER & CELLAR with Phil Tayler, SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING, and the post-apocalyptic, off-Broadway hit MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY.

2015-16 season subscriptions are on sale. Order by May 30 for Early Bird savings. Call 617.585.5678 or visit lyricstage.com.

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2015-16 LYRIC STAGE SEASON:

MY FAIR LADY

Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe

Directed by Scott Edmiston

September 4 - October 11, 2015

The standard by which all other musicals are measured, My Fair Lady is the delightful story of a down-on-her-luck London flower girl taken on as an "experiment" by a chauvinistic speech therapist. Based on Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw's beloved play, with book, music, and lyrics by Lerner and Loewe, My Fair Lady became an instant classic when it took Broadway by storm in 1956. As the Lyric Stage has shown with Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Big River, and more, our forte is turning a grand musical into a completely thrilling event in our uniquely intimate space! Enjoy all your favorite tunes including "I Could Have Danced All Night," "On the Street Where You Live," "The Rain in Spain," and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face."

SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING

by Katori Hall

October 23 - November 21, 2015

Katori Hall's "fresh, spontaneous, and highly watchable"* play brings together seven African-American women in a Memphis beauty parlor/boarding house during the waning days of World War II. As they struggle to make ends meet, they fight dirty - with each other and with their own fears and desires. Together they uncover friendship and love in unexpected plays. Ms. Hall is an exciting new theatrical voice best known for her play The Mountaintop, about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last night before his assassination.

BUYER & CELLAR

by Jonathan Tolins

Directed by Courtney O'Connor

December 4, 2015 - January 3, 2016

When you're an out-of-work L.A. actor, what better job could you imagine than being the sole employee of the "Great Mall of Malibu" - Barbra Streisand's treasure-filled basement! A hilarious and surprisingly poignant comedy, Buyer & Cellar is a tour-de-force for one actor who plays multiple characters including Oprah Winfrey, James Brolin, Bea Arthur, an imperious estate manager, and, of course, the divine Babs herself. It's the perfect vehicle for the versatile Phil Tayler, who has graced our stage in Sweeney Todd, Stones in His Pockets, On the Town, Avenue Q, Big River, Kiss Me, Kate, and Follies.

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, conceived by James Lapine

Directed by Spiro Veloudos

January 15 - February 20, 2016

Sondheim on Sondheim is an intimate portrait of the famed songwriter in his own words. . . . and music. Taken from nineteen Sondheim shows produced over a 62-year period, eight of your favorite Boston-based musical-theatre artists will perform a full evening of well-known, lesser-known, and cut material, directed by the Lyric Stage's award-winning Sondheim expert, Spiro Veloudos, and featuring video commentary from the master himself, Stephen Sondheim.

MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY

by Anne Washburn

Music by Michael Friedman

Directed by A. Nora Long

March 4-27, 2016

After a world-wide catastrophe, refugees find each other huddled around a fire in the woods. To pass the time, and to keep in touch with their past lives, they try recounting the Cape Fear episode of The Simpsons. Mr. Burns does the impossible: it manages to take the end of civilization and create glowing objects of wonder and beauty. It's an emotional epic about the human ability to survive . . . and to reinvent the world through the art of storytelling.

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

Adapted for the stage by Rick Elice, from the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Directed by Spiro Veloudos

May 20 - June 25, 2016

With ingenious stagecraft, a dozen talented actors, and the limitless possibilities of your imagination, Peter and the Starcatcher chronicles the adventures of Molly, a girl charged to protect a cargo of stardust from falling into the wrong hands, and an orphan named Peter who eventually becomes The Boy Who Never Grew Up. Celebrating the power of story-telling and music, Peter and the Starcatcher is a swashbuckling grownup prequel to Peter Pan that will have you hooked from the moment you let your mind take wing.