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A. . .My Name Is Still Alice
Synopsis:
a musical revue with a feminist slant; sequel to a. . .My Name Is alice. Dan's contributions are the sketches: the GROUP: in the conservative near-future, when abortion is illegal, four very pregnant women find themselves arguing with the Matron in the David Souter Home for Unwed Mothers. GROSS aNaTOMY LeCTURe: at the First Women's Medical School, a Professor lectures the students about the problems women physicians may encounter with male patients. COVeR-UPS #1, 2, and 3 (the show's running gag): a woman lets the audience in on a top-secret new makeup which can make anyone - even a housewife from LaJolla - look like Madonna, Queen Elizabeth, or the Pope.
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a. . .My Name Is Still Alice premiered At the Old Globe in San Diego, moved to Second Stage in New York, And has since been produced Around the United States And Canada. Dan Berkowitz is co-author; other contributors include Stephen Schwartz, Carol Hall, Michael John LaChiusa, Amanda McBroom, And David Zippel.
1st Produced:
Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California
14 May 1992
Organisations:
Old Globe Theatre
1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc., 1993
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Genre:
Musical Revue
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Male: - Female: 5 Other: -
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Agnes
Synopsis:
after being deserted in her wheelchair while her cranky nurse goes shopping, the title character of aGNeS persuades a stranger to kill her, thus releasing her from her limited and unhappy life.
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Short musical play Musical
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Bernarda Alba - A Musical
When her husband unexpectedly dies Bernarda alba is left to look after five daughters and her elderly mother
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Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca
1st Produced:
Mitzi E Newhouse Theatre, New York
06 Mar 2006
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Original cast recording: Ghoslight (7915584412-2) 2006
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Break
Synopsis:
two construction workers achieve new insight into their lunch hour woes when the Virgin Mary pays them an unexpected and confused visitation
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Short musical play Musical
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Buzzsaw Berkeley
Synopsis:
Someone is murdering stars in Hollywood
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Music And lyrics by Michael John LaChiUSA; book by Doug Wright
1st Produced:
Wpa Theatre, New York
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Eleanor Sleeps Here
Synopsis:
the final piece of the Suite, the melodic eLeaNOR SLeePS HeRe, is a heart rending examination of the relationship between eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok as they're being flown over Washington by amelia earhart. (see FIRST LaDY SUITe)
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Musical One act
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Male: - Female: 3 Other: -
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Eulogy For Mister Hamm
Synopsis:
the sundry characters of eULOGY FOR MISTeR HaMM wait on line to use their flop house's one available bathroom, and find they must unwillingly band together when they fear that their superintendent may be dead.
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Short musical play Musical
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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First Daughter Suite
Synopsis:
A historical fantasia in four-parts, FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE follows Patricia Nixon and daughters Tricia and Julie, Roselyn and Amy Carter, Betty and Susan Ford, Patti Davis and mom Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush and daughter-in-law Laura as they strive to live meaningful lives in the public eye, while dealing with the complex private relationships all of us face with our parents and children.
Notes:
Tony Award nominee MICHAEL JOHN LACHIUSA (Giant, See What I Wanna See, The Wild Party) imagines the inner lives and dreams of America's best-known daughters with a funny and moving follow-up to his 1993 Public musical First Lady Suite.
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musical
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First Lady Suite
the first piece, the staccato, yet hauntingly lyrical OVER TEXAS, takes place aboard air Force One on November 22nd, 1963. Mary Gallagher, the First Lady's personal secretary, and Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary to the President, are trying to relax as they fly into Dallas. Mary, exhausted by the lifestyle, is coaxed into napping by the cool, collected, Evelyn. Mary's dreams become portentous nightmares as they are haunted by a ghostly Jackie and an eerie Lady Bird. (1 man, 4 women.) the brassy, bouncy WHeRe's MaMIe? Takes place in Ike and Mamie's bedroom at the White House, yet quickly turns into a time-travel fantasy as Mamie, melancholic and alone on her birthday, is paid a visit by Marian anderson. Marian whisks Mamie off to algiers to confront Ike about his affair with his driver, Kay Summersby, and warn him of the racial strife he'll face later in life as President. (1 man, 3 women.) the comical OLIO presents Margaret Truman at a recital trying her best to sing as she's constantly, hilariously, being upstaged by First Lady Bess. (1 man, 1 woman, or 2 women.) the final piece of the Suite, the melodic eLeaNOR SLeePS HeRe, is a heart rending examination of the relationship between eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok as they're being flown over Washington by amelia earhart. (3 women.) Flexible Casting: the New York production used an ensemble of 1 man and 6 women playing 13 women and 1 man.
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Music, lyrics, book by Michael John LaChiUSA
1st Produced:
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1993
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
Music:
Los Angeles cast recording: PS Classics (PS206) 2002
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Genre:
Drama comedy Musical
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 6 Other: flexible
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Giant
Synopsis:
epic in vision and scope, swept with passion and violence, touched by humor and sorrow, Giant is the powerful story of a Texas rancher and his Virginia-born wife as they face increasing challenges in their marriage and family in an ever-changing American landscape.
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Music And Lyrics by Michael John LaChiUSA; Book by Sybille Pearson; Based on the novel by edna Ferber
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Hello Again
Ten nameless characters pair up in ten different scenes of sexual pleasure and/or despair. One character from each scene moves on to the next, seemingly dumping his old partner in favor of new prey. the play begins in 1900 with a Prostitute soliciting an unwilling Soldier. the next scene takes place in the 1940s, and the Soldier, afraid of dying in the war, tussles with a sympathetic Nurse. Next, the Nurse becomes a 1960s dominatrix over her patient, an upper-crust College Boy with wild leanings. In the 1930s, the College Boy reappears as the impotent partner of an adulterous Young Wife who can only have relations with him in seedy, out-of-the-way places. Meeting the woman's Husband in the next scene, we see why she's been driven to such moral turpitude. In her loneliness, the Wife dances a haunting pas-de-deux with the mirror image of her repressed, sensual self. experiencing the Wife's scene from a totally different perspective, we then meet the Husband as a closet homosexual (and on the Titanic, no less), using the ship's imminent demise to steal a tango with a gorgeous boy hustler called the Young Thing. Shifting to a 1970s disco, a bisexual Writer lures the Young Thing home only to feel the creeping certainty of a morning-after desertion. Finally, the circle of lovers closes where it all began. a Senator quits his relationship with an actress because of political liabilities, then seeks the Prostitute from the first scene, whom he desperately wishes he could love. a tableau begins forming in the background, with all the couples singing "Hello again" over and over in a moody recognition of love's inescapable pull.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler (La Ronde)
1st Produced:
Mitzi E Newhouse Theater, New York
31/1994
Organisations:
P&S Productions
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, Original cast recording: RCa (62680)
Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (62680) 1994
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Genre:
Drama Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest
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Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: -
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Little Fish
Synopsis:
"I never really knew what I was like until I quit smoking, by which time there was hell to pay." So observes Charlotte, a young writer of short stories as she confronts her past, present and future in post 9/11 Manhattan. With the help of her well-intentioned friends, Marco and Kathy, Charlotte embarks on a modern-day odyssey as she desperately attempts to fill her nicotine-starved days with swimming at the Y and jogging, but to no avail. She's a stranger in her own body, and it's not a pretty thing. Flashbacks to earlier years when she first arrived in New York bump up uncomfortably with her present. She's confronted by eccentric demons of her past: her ex-lover Robert (who pops up to criticize her at the most inopportune moments); the quintessential New York roommate-from-hell, Cinder; and a former employer, Mr. Bunder, a proponent of the five-martini lunch. Charlotte is also haunted in her dreams by her adolescent heroine, anne Frank, who warns her of the danger of flotsam-the accumulation of psychic and emotional debris that interrupts the flow of one's life. Unable to act on imPulse and unable to connect with her friends, Charlotte begins to atrophy, until finally, the dam breaks. She discovers to her horror, and ultimate relief, that she has always been running away from herself; not only does she have to kick her smoking habit, she has to overcome her addiction to fleeing. Once she begins clearing away the flotsam, Charlotte is able to be a better friend, a better writer and (yes, there is such a thing) a better New Yorker. as opposed to swimming against the tide, alone and without direction, Charlotte realizes that sometimes, like little fish, it's smarter and safer to swim with the school.
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Book, music And lyrics by Michael John LaChiUSA (suggested by the short stories of Deborah eisenberg)
1st Produced:
Second Stage Theatre, New York
13 Feb 2003
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Genre:
Drama comedy Musical
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: 1g, doubling
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Los Otros
Synopsis:
Race and gender in California
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Music by Michael John LaChiusa; lyrics and book by Ellen Fitzhugh
1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
01 Jun 2012
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Lucky Nurse
Synopsis:
the action of LUCKY NURSe takes place in a single night. Madge, a nurse who works with newborns, worries about having to put her dog to sleep because he's getting too old. Her friend Jerry leaves his shift to cruise a singles bar where he meets and seduces Sherri. afterwards, Sherri takes a cab home and meditates on her frequent one-night-stands, but the driver upsets her and she jumps out. Finally, the cabbie ends up at the hospital to have a look at the baby he abandoned only hours ago while Madge looks on and wonders, unknowingly, how anyone could desert their child in the middle of a cold night.
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Short musical play Musical
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Marie Christine
1899. Marie a mixed race woman is in prison - she tells her story. She was born in New Orleans and her mother practised voodoo. In 1894 she meets Dante Keyes - he is the captain of a ship and is from Chicago. they fall in love and Marie joins him on board the ship. they have three sons. Returning to Chicago Dante decides to run for political office - but not with a mixed race woman. He dumps her and gets engaged to a white woman Helena. Dante tells Marie he will look after their sons but she refuses to let him have them. at the wedding Helena drops dead - she has been poisoned by a present given to her by Marie. Now in prison Marie admits that she has also killed her children
Notes:
Music, lyrics And book by Michael John LaChiUSA
1st Produced:
Vivien Beaumont Theatre, New York
02 Dec 1999
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Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (09026 63593 2) 1999
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Musical
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Olio
Synopsis:
the comical OLIO presents Margaret Truman at a recital trying her best to sing as she's constantly, hilariously, being upstaged by First Lady Bess. (see FIRST LaDY SUITe)
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Musical One act
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Over Texas
Synopsis:
OVeR TeXaS, takes place aboard air Force One on November 22nd, 1993. Mary Gallagher, the First Lady's personal secretary, and Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary to the President, are trying to relax as they fly into Dallas. Mary, exhausted by the lifestyle, is coaxed into napping by the cool, collected, Evelyn. Mary's dreams become portentous nightmares as they are haunted by a ghostly Jackie and an eerie Lady Bird. (see FIRST LaDY SUITe)
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Scene Musical One act
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Male: 1 Female: 4 Other: -
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Petrified Prince, The
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Music And lyrics by Michael John LaChiUSA; book by edward Gallardo. Based on the movie "the Petrified Prince" screenplay by Ingmar Bergman
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Queen Of The Mist
Synopsis:
Anna Edson Taylor the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel
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Music, lyrics and book by Michael John LaChiusa
1st Produced:
The Gym at Judson Memorial Church, New York
18 Oct 2011
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See What I Wanna See
little powerhouse of a show whose sheer intensity will knock you flat-and make you think. LaChiUSA's stagecraft is sure, and his edgy, pop-flavored score commandingly individual. He is thinking hard about the future of the post-Sondheim musical, and in See WHaT I WaNNa See he has gone a long way toward showing us what it will look like. -Wall Street Journal. Mr. LaChiUSA delivers songs that strike at the heart. they throb with both communal feelings of hope and anxiety and a specific sense of character. the warmth arrives like a sunburst in GLORYDaY where the notions of truth and belief are extended to a cosmic level. In song the characters blossom into individuals whose timbres and cadences identify them as specifically as the shapes of their heads and bodies. -NY Times. See WHaT I WaNNa See has all the music you'd want from Broadway-cool jazz and all-purpose pop-loaded with some of the most succinct, precise, sexually frank lyrics I've heard in musical theater. -Philadelphia Inquirer. an intelligent, adult musical that entertains and astonishes at the same time. . .This smoky, sexy saga enhanced by LaChiUSA's muscular, jazzy score, flecked with Japanese influences and tough, punchy lyrics, makes See WHaT I WaNNa See a highly original, even innovative journey. -a.P. Sassily innovative, consistently tantalizing and insidiously memorable, the protean race of the music through jazz, Tin Pan alley, show tunes and classical is riveting. We get triple suspense leading us into an aural and emotional kaleidoscope. the show will make you feel, think and, above all, groove. -Bloomberg.com. a typically smart work from Michael John LaChiUSA, See WHaT I WaNNa See is a must-see. -Star-Ledger. LaChiUSA's tight-knit composition, with its feverishly racing, New Yorkily compulsive stream of words, is the strongest single piece of music theatre he has yet made. Packed with excitement the story is a gemstone, its multiple facets revealing new meanings as each character's interpretation gets told. -Village Voice.
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words And music by Michael John LaChiUSA, suggested by the stories of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, As translated by Takashi Kojima
1st Produced:
Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New York
30 Oct 2005
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007
Music:
Original cast recording: Ghoslight (7915584408-2) 2005
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Scene Musical One act
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: doubling
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Where's Mamie?
Synopsis:
the brassy, bouncy WHeRe's MaMIe? takes place in Ike and Mamie's bedroom at the White House, yet quickly turns into a time-travel fantasy as Mamie, melancholic and alone on her birthday, is paid a visit by Marian anderson. Marian whisks Mamie off to algiers to confront Ike about his affair with his driver, Kay Summersby, and warn him of the racial strife he'll face later in life as President. (see FIRST LaDY SUITe)
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Musical One act
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Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: -
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Wild Party, The
Burrs and Queenie a vaudeville couple throw the party to end all parties. all through the party they try to outdo each other - resulting with Queenie leaving Burrs
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Music And Lyrics by Michael John LaChiUSA, Book by Michael John LaChiUSA And George C Wolfe, Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March
1st Produced:
Virginia Theatre, New York
13 Apr 2000
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Original cast recording: Decca (012159003-2) 2000
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Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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