The Schenectady Light Opera Company has announced the lineup for its 2012-2013 season (the company?s 86th), featuring five productions, including a regional premiere and winners of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for best musical.
The season is being billed as the centerpiece of the newly renovated Performing Arts Center at 427 Franklin St. in Schenectady.
The season:
- Oct. 12-14, 18-21 ?Next to Normal?: Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt?s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical about a family?s struggle with bipolar disorder. This regional premiere show will be directed by Mike Mensing.
- Dec. 7-9, 13-16 ?Little Shop of Horrors?: Another rock musical based on the film, which was based on the low-budget, nonmusical Roger Corman movie about killer plants ? and dentists. This youth program will be directed by Sev Moro, who directed last year?s youth production of ?Les Miserables.?
- Feb. 8-10, 14-17, 2013 ?Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?: A musical about con artists on the French Riviera, based on a movie, which itself was a remake of a Marlon Brando/David Niven film. Directed by Mike Gatzendorfer.
- March 15-17, 21-24, 2013 ?The Sound of Music?: Rodgers & Hammerstein?s classic musical about the von Trapp family?s escape from the Nazis in Austria. Directed by Jeff Hocking and Becky Strait.
- May 10-12, 16-19, 2013: ?Sweet Charity?: Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields and Neil Simon turn Fellini?s film ?Nights of Cabiria? into a musical about the romantic adventures of a Times Square dancer for hire. Directed by Richard Rowe.
Tickets go on sale next week, starting at $18; a season subscription for all five shows is $120. For more information, visit http://www.sloctheater.org.
Source: http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/sloc-announces-2012-13-season/21586/
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