Musical Theatre Repertoire

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college-conservatory of music presenting five fully-produced musicals in a variety of settings each season

Each season the Musical Theatre program at CCM presents five musicals in the three theatres that comprise the Corbett Center for the Performing Arts. Both the mainstage season and the studio series are extremely popular and play to capacity audiences. The selection of repertoire plays an important educational role in our training and students are exposed to every kind of musical during their residency at CCM.

In 2008, we added an exciting new series to our production work. Musicals Redux is similar in nature to the "Lost Musicals" produced in London and the "Encores" series in New York. Each year, we will revive a forgotten gem from the storehouse of American musicals written between 1925 and 1985. The first production in the series was the original 1927 version of Good News by Henderson, DeSylva and Brown. This year we turn to the Eighties with Galt MacDermot's moving folk-musical, The Human Comedy.

In addition to our production season, we present two showcases each year, the Senior Showcase which performs in Cincinnati and New York and the Freshman Showcase which marks the debut of the entering class for the year.

OUR 40th ANNIVERSARY MUSICAL THEATRE SEASON

		october hello again music and lyrics by John LaChuisa based upon the play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler
		november hair music by Galt MacDermot book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado
		february falsettos music and lyrics by William Finn book by William Finn and James Lapine
		march anything goes music and lyrics by Cole Porter book Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
		april the senior showcase i-Generation created and performed by the Class of 2010 in Musical Theatre
		may musicals redux the human comedy music by Galt MacDermot libretto by William Dumaresq based on the novel by William Saroyan
		may the freshman showcase created and performed by the Freshman Class in Musical Theatre for 2010
SEASON SUBJECT TO CHANGE

For reservations or further information about Musical Theatre productions, please call the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183. Season subscriptions are available.

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ALBERT HAGUE
1929-2001

Albert Hague, the Tony Award-winning composer who wrote music for the Gwen Verdon vehicle, Redhead, and later found acting fame as Prof. Shorofsky in the film and TV series, Fame, died at a California hospital at the age of 81. The Berlin-born graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music penned music for the beloved TV special, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His holiday tunes (with lyrics by Dr. Seuss) are still sung in Christmas concerts around the world. Mr. Hague's career included writing incidental music for plays and being a cherished vocal coach. He also wrote the score for the 1955 Broadway musical, Plain and Fancy. In 1959, Mr. Hague's score to Redhead, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, won the Best Score Tony Award and the Bob Fosse show caused a sensation beating Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song for Best Musical, Best Score and (in a category that no longer exists) Best Authors. Mr. Hague may best be known to this generation as Prof. Shorofsky, the music teacher from the film and TV series Fame.

Pictured above: Stephanie Gibson as Babe and Preston Truman Boyd as Sid in The Pajama Game in Corbett Auditorium..

Musical Theatre Program І University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music І P O Box 210003 І Cincinnati І OH 45221

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