Great music and great stories pack The 5th Avenue Theatre’s 2007-2008 season.
The lineup, announced earlier this week, includes six musicals, five of which will appear at The 5th Avenue for the first time.
Here’s the full season lineup:
“Lone Star Love or, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas”: Sept. 11 to 30. The story is based on Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” though the action is transplanted to the Lone Star State just after the Civil War. Confederate “Colonel” John Falstaff tries to charm the wives of two wealthy cattle ranchers, with an eye not so much on love but land and money.
“Whistle Down the Wind”: Nov. 13 to Dec. 2. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. A young girl finds a mysterious stranger hiding in her barn. The townspeople want to find the escaped felon but the girl wants to protect him from the outside world.
“Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli &The Four Seasons”: Dec. 11 to Jan. 2. A group of blue-collar kids make it big with such hits as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Oh, What A Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
“Into the Woods”: Feb. 5 to 24. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. A baker and his wife search the woods to lift a witch’s curse, and on their way they run into a host of fairy-tale characters: Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella and others.
“Cabaret”: March 25 to April 13, 2008. Based on the play “I Am a Camera” by John Van Druten and “Berlin Stories” by Christopher Isherwood, the story follows an English nightclub singer, an American writer, a German landlady and a Jewish shopkeeper whose futures become uncertain on the eve of the Third Reich.
“Mame”: May 27 to June 15, 2008. Based on the novel by Patrick Dennis, the story follows an eccentric socialite who finds her Manhattan lifestyle turned topsy-turvy when she becomes guardian of her orphaned nephew.
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