Music Stephen Flaherty Book Lynn Ahrens Playwright Lynn Ahrens Composer Stephen Flaherty Orchestrator Michael Starobin | Lyrics Lynn Ahrens First performance 27 April 2007 Lyricist Lynn Ahrens Adapted from The Glorious Ones | |
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Basis Novel by Francine Prose Productions 2007 Pittsburgh
2007 Off-Broadway Similar Stephen Flaherty plays, Other plays | ||
Ahrens flaherty interview the glorious ones overview
The Glorious Ones is a musical with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Set in 17th-century Italy, it concerns a theatre group in the world of commedia dell'arte and theatre of the Italian Renaissance.
Contents
- Ahrens flaherty interview the glorious ones overview
- Charles west sings i was here from the glorious ones
- Production history
- Songs
- Characters and Off Broadway cast
- Critical response
- Awards and nominations
- References
After premiering in Pittsburgh in April 2007, the musical opened Off-Broadway in October 2007.
Charles west sings i was here from the glorious ones
Production history
The musical premiered April 27, 2007, at the Pittsburgh Public Theater and closed on May 20, 2007.
It then opened Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, as a production of the Lincoln Center Theater on October 11, 2007 and ran through January 6, 2008. Directed and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, the New York cast featured Marc Kudisch, Erin Davie, Natalie Venetia Belcon, and David Patrick Kelly.
The musical was presented at the Landor Theatre, London, from 6 March to 7 April 2012, with direction by Robert McWhir.
The Canadian premiere of The Glorious Ones took place in May 2014, presented by the Toronto Civic Light Opera Company, starring Joe Cascone (Flaminio), Joanne Kennedy (Columbina), David Haines (Dottore), Eric Botosan (Pantalone), Elizabeth Rose Morriss (Isabella), Jordan Quinn (Francesco) and Susan Sanders (Armanda).
Songs
Characters and Off-Broadway cast
Critical response
Charles Isherwood, in his review in The New York Times of the Off-Broadway production, wrote: "With buoyant music by Stephen Flaherty and a bawdy book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, the show mixes the lowdown pratfalls of commedia dell’arte with the rosy sentimentality of classic American musical comedy...The resulting musical is a sweet but strange hybrid, both joyfully naughty and totally innocuous."