Frank Wildhorn and Nilo Cruz’ Havana Part of Pasadena Playhouse Season

A new musical from Frank Wildhorn and Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz is at the center of the Pasadena Playhouse‘s schedule for 2010 which the theater has announced today.

Wildhorn (Jekyll and Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel) will provide the music and Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) the book for Havana, which centers on an ambitious North American writer who’s inherited a nightclub and a lavish home from her aunt in Cuba. The writer travels to the island to sell these assets in order to fund her creative ambitions, but the allure of the city, and a newfound love interest, may derail her plans. Sergio Trujillo (choreographer for Jersey Boys and All Shook Up) will direct the show, which has lyrics by Jack Murphy and is scheduled to run in June 2010.

Preceding Havana at the Playhouse will be a revival of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot (January 2010) and a revival of Noel Coward’s incisive portrait of two women who’ve grown bored with their husbands, Fallen Angels (February 2010). In April 2010, the theater will present Sight Unseen, Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-finalist play about an artist’s meteoric rise to fame.

In the fall, the theater will present the world premiere of Frank Tangredi’s Pastoral, a look at a female pastor’s crisis of faith as well as a family musical that will be announced at a later date.

For further information, visit www.pasadenaplayhouse.org.