Musicals Tonight! Set for 2005-2006 Season

Two shows will be presented in Fall 2005: The Gay Life (October 18-30), with a score by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, concerns Anatol, a determined bachelor in turn-of-the century Vienna who eventually succumbs to the enchanting Liesl. Next up will be Good News (November 1-13), the Henderson, DeSylva & Brown romp about a football-obsessed collegian who falls for his tutor.

In Spring 2006, the company will present three shows, starting off with Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach’s Roberta (March 21-April 2), about an American man who inherits a Parisian dress shop and wisely seeks the assistance of a young woman of style and allure. It will be followed by Show Girl (April 25-May 7), a romanticization of the lives of aspiring theater people, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn. Set to close out the season is Let’s Face It (May 9-21), by Cole Porter and Dorothy and Herbert Fields, which concerns three suspicious wives who recruit three eager soldiers to help make their philandering husbands take notice of them.

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