Musicals Tonight! Seeks Suggestions for an Apple Tree Replacement

A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but two won’t be growing simultaneously in Manhattan next spring. Musicals Tonight!, which had scheduled a production of the Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick musical The Apple Tree for May 2005, has now cancelled those plans in light of the fact that the City Center Encores! series has announced that its own presentation of the musical, starring Kristin Chenoweth, will occur on the same weekend.

As a result, Musicals Tonight! is searching for a new show to fill the hole in its schedule. All suggestions and reasons should be sent to musicalstonight@aol.com. According to a press release, from Musicals Tonight! artistic director Mel Miller, “The most interesting suggestion gets two free tickets to anything on our Spring 2005 schedule.”

The other two remaining shows in the 2004-2005 Musicals Tonight! season are The Chocolate Soldier, the Oscar Straus operetta based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man (March 29-April 10); and the Jerome Kern-P.G. Wodehouse musical The Beauty Prize (April 26-May 8). For more information, visit www.musicalstonight.org.