Main Street Festivals: The Michael Mayer Season

How Green Was My Valley is a musical of a 1939 novel of the same name. (It was also a major motion picture in 1941.) Against a backdrop of rolling, green hills, the mining families of South Wales work, love, and fight to defy the changes of life at the beginning of the twentieth century in this classic story. The reading is directed by David Ingram with Musical Direction by Christopher Ertelt. This production is sponsored by The Philadelphia Welsh Society.

The Gig, is directed by Megan Nicole O’Brien with Musical Direction by Gina Giachero. In the summer of 1975, six middle aged guys escape from their daily lives to pursue their dreams of playing jazz when they book a gig playing for a club in the Catskills. Along the way, they learn about life, love, and growing up.

A Good Man, is directed by Amina Robinson with Musical Direction by Renee Robinson-Way.