Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that The Old Globe will produce the World Premieres of four new plays and musicals in its 2011-12 Winter Season. The season will feature the World Premiere musicals Some Lovers by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award winner Steven Sater and Nobody Loves You by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, as well as the West Coast Premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, recently nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. The two plays receiving World Premiere productions are Somewhere by Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez and The Recommendation by Jonathan Caren. The new season also includes revivals of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show and the Eugene O'Neill classic Anna Christie directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn. Special events include the World Premiere of Odyssey by Todd Almond, a music theater event conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet celebrating the Globe's 75th Anniversary, The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Twelfth Night and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which returns for its 14th consecutive year. Tickets to the Globe's 2011-12 Winter Season are currently available by subscription only. Subscription prices range from $99 to $536. Subscription packages may be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office.
"The season is particularly exciting because of all the new work, and I think it is quite varied in terms of style and story," said Spisto. "We are working with some of today's most interesting and accomplished writers, and they all have something to say that both resonates with us and sparks a reaction. The revivals are also entertaining and a bit daring. It's a big season with 10 productions, and that's only the winter! All in all we are doing 15 productions and one special event celebrating the culmination of our 75th Anniversary - it's pretty amazing."
The complete 2011-12 Winter Season is as follows:
· Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show - Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O'Brien (Sept. 15 - Nov. 6, 2011) Old Globe Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.
The 2011-12 Season opens with a revival of the enduring musical phenomenon The Rocky Horror Show, featuring the sweet transvestite from Transylvania, Dr. Frank N. Furter, and his time-warped laboratory of sexual and scientific possibilities. Director Oanh Nguyen, Artistic Director of Southern California's award-winning Chance Theater, is renowned for his distinctive interpretations of contemporary musicals.
· Somewhere by Matthew Lopez (Sept. 24 - Oct. 30, 2011) Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.
After receiving its West Coast Premiere at the Globe in 2010, Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez's play The Whipping Man took New York by storm. His newest work, infused with dance, takes place in 1959 and tells the story of a family of dreamers whose home is scheduled for demolition to make way for the construction of Lincoln Center. Giovanna Sardelli, who last collaborated with Lopez on the Globe's production of The Whipping Man, will direct the World Premiere production.
