The Gallery Players Announce 2004-2005 Season Slate
Caryl Churchill’s provocative, gender-bending play Cloud Nine will open the season, September 11 to 26; Tom Herman, who helmed Lobby Hero for the Players last season, directs. Hair, the antiwar rock musical by Galt MacDermot, Jerome Ragni, and James Rado, will be revived October 16-November 7 in response to the upcoming U.S. Presidential election; Steven Smeltzer, who directed the company’s 2003 OOBR-winning production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, will direct and choreograph. Warren Leight’s jazz play Side Man will take the Gallery stage from November 27 through December 12, directed by company president Heather Siobhan Curran.
The Spitfire Grill, a musical that had a brief run Off-Broadway in 2001, will be presented January 13-30, 2005 under the direction of M. R. Goodley, who helmed Gallery’s 2002 production of Floyd Collins. The eighteenth century British restoration comedy The School for Scandal follows, February 19-March 6. Neal Freeman will direct The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a humorous deconstruction of the Bard’s works, for a March 26-April 10 run. The mainstage season finale will be The Full Monty (April 30-May 22), a musical in which six out-of-work and out-of-shape steel workers find a novel way to make ends meet.
World premiere productions of plays by tri-state area authors will be showcased in the eighth annual Black Box New Play Festival, which this year comprises four themed weekends: “Brooklyn Plays/Brooklyn Playwrights,” “Gay Gallery,” “Plays en Español,” and “The Sandbox — Plays For and By Kids.” The festival will run June 2-26, 2005.
The Gallery Players’ theater is located at 199 Fourteenth Street in Brooklyn, between 4th and 5th Avenues. The company offers subscription packages ranging from $90 to $500; individual tickets for each performance are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and children 12 and under. Reservations can be made by calling 718-595-0547. For further information, click here.
