All the More to Love , a Plus-Size Musical, Will Premiere at Laguna Playhouse
By Kenneth Jones
The 2008-09 season at The Laguna Playhouse in California will include the world-premiere musical, All the More to Love , about habitués of a plus-size consignment shop.
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Composer Craig Bohmler and lyricist Marion Adler, the songwriters of the musicals
Gunmetal Blues and
Enter the Guardsman , team up with librettist Marc Jacobs for the Laguna commission, to play March 31-May 3, 2009.
It's billed as "a musical about the unusual people who frequent a plus-size consignment shop and their quest for love, self-respect and the deeper meaning of wearing someone else's clothes."
The new season will also include The Marvelous Wonderettes , the '50s revue by Roger Bean (opening the season July 8-Aug. 31); the West Coast premiere of Tom Dudzick's showbiz comedy Don't Talk to the Actors ; the West Coast premiere of the popular and heartfelt regional comedy, Leaving Iowa , by Spike Manton and Tim Clue; the popular musical biography of Ella Fitzgerald, Ella , which has book by Jeffrey Hatcher, conception by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison and musical arrangements by Danny Holgate; Mark Brown's adaptation of the Jules Verne classic, Around the World in Eighty Days ; and Michael Hollinger's dark comedy An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf .
Andrew Barnicle is artistic director of The Laguna Playhouse. Karen Wood is managing director.
For more information visit www.lagunaplayhouse.com.
