NEW MUSICALS IN THE MAKING
SEASON ADD-ON
JUL 16 - AUG 12
Theater Latté Da’s New Work Festival showcasing three works that stretch the boundaries of musical storytelling, providing audience members the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the creative process. Following each performance is an in-depth conversation with the playwrights, composers, and lyricists. Be a part of Theater Latté Da’s commitment to the next generation of the Great American Musical.
Passes for NEXT FESTIVAL 2024 are available as a season add-on. To purchase, select your season subscription package and follow the prompts to add festival passes at checkout.
SHE’S COME UNDONE
Presentations:
Friday, July 26 at 3pm
Monday, July 29 at 7:30pm
Music and Lyrics by Michael Holland
Book by Darrah Cloud and David Simpatico
Adapted from Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone
Directed by Justin Lucero
Music Direction by Jason Hansen
Adapted from Wally Lamb’s acclaimed novel She’s Come Undone, this new musical from the creators of Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical uses an American folk score to chronicle the life of Dolores Price, who conceals her pain, and herself, behind an addiction to food, her double-wide wit, and a fictional life of her own devising.
The runtime of this presentation is approximately 3 hours with a 15-minute intermission.
With support from Linda Svitak & David Feroe, this year’s NEXT Festival Producing Partners for SHE’S COME UNDONE.
MY ÁNTONIA
Presentations:
Friday, August 2 at 3pm
Monday, August 5 at 7:30pm.
Music and Lyrics by The Kilbanes
Book by Noah Brody
Adapted from the novel by Willa Cather
Directed by Jessie Austrian
Music Direction by Christine and Harrison Wade
Willa Cather’s classic novel of immigrant life on the Nebraska prairie chronicles the story of a young man and how his friendship with Ántonia profoundly shaped his young life. The musical duo The Kilbanes join forces with theater-makers Noah Brody and Jessie Austrian of Fiasco Theatre to bring this ever-timely story to the stage.
(NEXT Generation Commission 2019; Developmental Workshop 2023)
THE MEASURES
Presentations:
Friday, August 9 at 3pm
Monday, August 12 at 7:30pm
Music and Lyrics by David Darrow
Book by Kira Obolensky
Directed by Tyler Michaels King
Music Direction by Andy Kust
Based on the “21 Grams Theory” and the bizarre experiments conducted by Dr. Duncan MacDougall in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1907, this new musical follows a young nurse’s search for purpose as she aids an eccentric doctor to weigh patients as they die to prove the human soul has physical weight. Weaving between the memories of the sick and dying and a peculiar man battling his own grief, MEASURES traverses the gap between what we leave behind and where we might go beyond our final breath.
Commissioned by Trademark Theater
This play has been developed with the support of Trademark Theater, the Playwrights’ Center and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat.
With support from Barb & Fran Davis, this year’s NEXT Festival Producing Ambassadors for THE MEASURES.
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