Announcing MetroStage's 2008-2009 Season

ROOMS, a rock romance
July 24 - September 7, 2008

Music and Lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman (Bright Lights, Big City)
Book by Paul Scott Goodman and Miriam Gordon
Directed by Scott Schwartz

Monica, an ambitious singer/songwriter and Ian, a hard driving rocker, become creatively and romantically entangled as they journey from their native Glasgow to London and New York and are catapulted into the punk rock explosion and a quest for stardom. A gritty rock musical, Rooms explores the universal desire to escape and create, to love and explore.

Cast will include Broadway performers, Natascia Diaz (Man of La Mancha) and Doug Kreeger (Les Miz). Most recently, Ms. Diaz was seen in Jacques Brel off-Broadway and locally in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Mr. Kreeger will be performing locally this Spring in The Visit.

Originally produced as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2005. A co-production with Geva Theatre, Rochester, NY.

Isn’t It Romantic
November 20 - December 21, 2008

Written and Directed by David Koch
Music Direction by William Knowles

MetroStage favorite Jimi Ray Malary returns to MetroStage after past hit shows Ellington: The Life and Music of The Duke and Nat King Cole: King of Cool. This tribute features the songs that epitomize romance from three of popular music’s most prolific and enduring song writing teams: Jerome Kern, Rodgers & Hart and George & Ira Gershwin.

Direct from the Stackner Cabaret at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Mr. Malary will be joined by Lori Williams (another MetroStage favorite featured in All Night Strut in 2005.)

Cool Papa’s Party
January 29 - March 8, 2009

Book and Lyrics by Thomas W. Jones II
Original music by William Knowles
Directed by Thomas W. Jones II
Music Direction by William Knowles

A 20th century musical odyssey through the eyes of the "last great American hipster." It is to Sammy Davis, Jr. and Nat King Cole what "Dreamgirls" was to the Supremes, Barry Gordy and Motown. Mr. Cool Papa's life stands on the world stage as a testament to the traveler, the survivor, the conqueror. And what a life defined by artistry, underscored by excellence and distinguished always by style.

Workshopped in Atlanta, this will be the world premiere, by the same artistic team that brought Bricktop and Three Sistahs to MetroStage last season. Featuring MetroStage favorite William Hubbard.

HEROES
April 22 - May 17, 2009

Written by Gerald Sibleyras
Translated by Tom Stoppard
Directed by John Vreeke

"Waiting for Godot" meets "Art"

Three soldiers in a Parisian veterans' home pass the time with tales that are at once achingly funny and piercingly sad. With his rapier wit and dazzling use of language, Tom Stoppard offers a brilliant new translation that mixes comic curmudgeonry, camaraderie and nostalgia.

A smash hit when it premiered in Paris, Heroes received four Moliere nominations. The London production won the 2006 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.

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