June 6-28, 2009
Producer: Dominic Cuskern
Plays and directors to be announced
Where can a playwright find an outlet? Where can an audience see new works? The Gallery Players provides both of these in this Festival. Over the years of producing the Festival, we have developed works by countless playwrights, many of whom continue to work with The Gallery Players each year to incubate their new ideas. More than 300 plays have appeared in the Black Box New Play Festival since its inception and this year will bring even more writing and acting talent to the stage. Who knows what you’ll discover in the Box?
Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend
Book by Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend
Additional Music and Lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon
May 2-24, 2009
Producer: Katie Adams/The Gallery Players
Associate Producer: Katharine Vandergriff
Director: Tom Wojtunik
Assistant Director: Stefanie Horowitz
Choreographer : Ryan Kasprzak
Music Director: Paul Seiz
Production Stage Manager: Lara Terrell
Assistant Stage Manager: DaVonne Bacchus
Set Designer: Michael Kramer
Lighting Designer: Chris Walsh
Costume Designer: Hunter Kaczorowski
Sound Designer: Kate Foretek
Pete Townshend’s tale of a young boy’s journey from pain to triumph is the most electrifying evening of rock and roll ever to play in a theatre! The classic ’60s rock opera by The Who was translated to the stage by theatrical wizard Des McAnuff into a high-energy, one-of-a-kind theatrical event. The exhilarating score is timeless in its youthful appeal, giving the show a cross-generational appeal that has made it a smash-hit around the world.
by William Inge
March 14-29, 2008
Producer: Amanda White/The Gallery Players
Director: Heather Siobhan Curran
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She’s been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she’s ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, “Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I’m gonna end up in Montana …”
