"This incredible season is unlike any we’ve ever mounted at the Globe," said the San Diego troupe's artistic director Jack O'Brien. "I am thrilled to have Broadway’s consummate leading lady, Chita Rivera, make her Old Globe debut in this brilliant world premiere musical celebrating her career. Later in the season comes the equally amazing Twyla Tharp joining forces with American music legend Bob Dylan for our second world premiere musical. Adding to those sure-fire blockbusters is a magnificent mix of classic comedies and new provocative plays guaranteed to entertain and enthrall Globe audiences.”
The Old Globe Theatre 2006-2006 season (subject to change) is as follows:
Graciela Daniele directs and choreographs the titular Broadway legend in the new musical celebrating her life and career. Previous runs at Denver and Los Angeles fell through and San Diego will receive the world premiere.
Longtime Globe associate artist Matthews (actor to appear in the upcoming Stuff Happens American premiere) pens "a modern verse drama of scandal and the clergy in present-day Los Angeles," according to materials.
Movin' Out creator Tharp directs and choreographs her as-yet-untitled next project set to the music of the legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. "The worlds of theatre and dance" will connect to tell a new story "with the groundbreaking songs of one of America's rock music icons."
With a marriage proposal and surprise pregnancy motivating them, a couple looks into a potential apartment in this new comedy which goes awry when the man's obsessed roommate and the woman's estranged mother arrive.
The 1920's-set London drawing room comedy follows the marriage of a top surgeon and his wife after a seemingly secret affair between the husband and his wife's friend is revealed.
The story of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Attorney General and Chief Judge of the Nuremberg trials Francis Biddle as penned by the personal secretary to the man.
Playwright Blessing sets a man and a woman in an unfamiliar house atop a mountain surrounded by water where the two characters awake with no memory of who they are or how they go there. Old Globe's holiday traditions Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Nov. 19-Dec. 31 - Old Globe) and La Pastorela (December 4-23 - Cassius Carter) will also fill the stage this year.
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