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York Announces Musicals in Mufti Season

Charles Strouse(© Michael Portantiere)
Charles Strouse
(© Michael Portantiere)

The York Theatre Company has announced the summer season line-up for its Musicals in Mufti series.

The season will kick off with It’s a Bird. . . It’s a Plane. . . It’s Superman (June 15-17), directed by Stuart Ross. The show has music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams, and a book by David Newman and Robert Benton; it concerns Superman, who is facing a mad scientist and an evil newsman while fighting for the hand of Lois Lane.

Up next will be the New York premiere of I and Albert (June 29-July 1), with a score by Strouse and Adams and a book by Jay Presson Allen. The show, to be directed by Michael Montel, focuses on the love affair between Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert.

It will be followed by Kent Gash’s production of Bajour (July 13-15). The musical has a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks; it concerns an NYU anthropology student whose doctoral study of nomadic gypsies brings her in contact with a tribal leader who needs to raise a dowry to purchase a bride from Newark’s Gypsy King for his son.

The season will conclude The Day Before Spring (July 27-29), co-written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The musical, which will be directed by David Glenn Armstrong, is about a married woman who considers running off with her old flame after they meet again at a college reunion.

For more information, visit www.yorktheatre.org.