METROSTAGE ANNOUNCES ITS 2007-2008 SEASON

July 26 – September 9, 2007
Nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best New Musical 2003
Three Sistahs
Story by Janet Pryce

Book and Lyrics by Thomas W. Jones II

Music by William F. Hubbard

An elegant intimate musical which journeys the souls of three women as they reveal their regrets of the past and pain of the present, while sharing the promise of the future. An evening of gospel, rhythm & blues, funk and folk.

Featuring original sistahs Helen Hayes Award winner Bernardine Mitchell and Crystal Fox, and Felicia Curry (Two Queens, One Castle).

October 3 – November 25, 2007

Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson

A pop rock musical about facing crossroads in life and holding onto your dreams. It tells the story of Jonathan, a promising young composer on the eve of his 30th birthday. His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city (tick), his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue (tick) and he’s still waiting tables and trying to write the great American musical before time, and, unbeknownst to him, life passes him by (BOOM!).

Tick, tick…BOOM! was written by Jonathan Larson, the 1996 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner for RENT, and adapted by the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Proof, David Auburn.

January 16 – March 9, 2008

Written and Directed by Marion J. Caffey
Musical arrangements by Danny Holgate

An uplifting and humorous musical based on the life of the blues and jazz legend Alberta Hunter. Centered around Alberta Hunter’s 1977 debut at The Cookery in New York’s Greenwich Village, the biographical and historical look weaves in and out of the most colorful lives in entertainment beginning in 1895, her comeback after 50 years at the age of 82, to her death in 1984.

April 9 – May 25, 2008
WORLD PREMIERE
The Stephen Schwartz Project
Conceived by Michael J. Bobbitt
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Musical arrangements by John L. Cornelius II
Directed and Choreographed by Michael J. Bobbitt
Musical Direction by Doug Bowles

This new musical revue features many of Tony-nominated and Oscar-winning Composer/Lyricist Stephen Schwartz’s most beloved songs and others from his songbook, all re-conceived with new musical arrangements. Come hear your favorite songs from Broadway favorites including Wicked, Pippin, Godspell and many others, with a twist, as part of this special tribute to one of Broadway’s most prolific writers.

*Titles, Dates and Performance times are subject to change.