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Music by Book and Lyrics by Presented by PREMIERES in October 2003 Directed by Music Director/Pianist Bass – Michael Blanco Percussion – Rex Benincasa Cast |
SYNOPSIS |
This award-winning musical comedy is about love, art, and what it really takes to get into Princeton. Edmund, a tormented young novelist, makes his living tutoring rich kids with bad grades and Ivy League ambitions. His newest client is Sweetie Finley, a pierced-nose teen with a goth wardrobe, a pet boa constrictor, and two stressed-out Upper East Side parents. Sweetie would much rather hang out with her stoner boyfriend than study, but when her tough attitude melts into a secret crush for Edmund, she becomes his creative muse and his novel literally starts to come to life. In the end, lessons are learned by all. |
PRODUCTION HISTORY |
The Tutor was originally developed at the O’Neill Theater Center’s Music Theater Conference in 2001, where Maryrose Wood was the first recipient of the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award. Following PREMIERE’S performances, The Tutor went on to become the only three-time winner of the Richard Rodgers Award. It was then presented in a studio production at the York Theatre, followed by a New York Showcase at 59E59 Theatres in Prospect Theatre Company’s 2005-6 season. In February of 2007, The Tutor will make its regional debut at The Spirit of Broadway Theater in Norwich, Connecticut. For more information or to buy tickets, please visit www.spiritofbroadway.org. |
PRESS |
"This is musical theater of the lightest, and most enjoyable kind." |
"...a delightfully unique musical… fun enough for all ages to thoroughly enjoy." |
"The Tutor is nothing short of being hysterically poignant." |
BIOGRAPHIES |
MARYROSE WOOD was the first recipient of the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award and has twice been a resident artist at the O’Neill Music Theater Conference. Her work has been performed at Joe’s Pub, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Broadway Theatre Institute, Don’t Tell Mama, The Women’s Project, Playwrights Center of San Francisco and many other venues. Plays: The Most Important Thing, Fran’s Liposuction, The Love Ponzi. Screenplays: Metropolitan Girl, All The Way North (a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist). She wrote and directed Here To Stay: The Music of George Gershwin for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Her first novel for teen readers, Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love, was published by Delacorte/Random House in January ’06 and was hailed as an ‘uproariously funny debut.’ (ALA Booklist). Her next novel will be released in March ’07 by Berkley Books, and is titled Why I Let My Hair Grow Out. Maryrose is currently writing My Life: The Musical, also for Delacorte. To learn more visit www.maryrosewood.com. |
ANDREW GERLE, age 34, began his compositional studies while at Yale University, writing full incidental scores to Marat/Sade and A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Subsequent works for theater include Kepler (a finalist for the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award for new music theatre writing); Brighter Things, a pair of one-acts based on the stories of John Cheever; The Perfect Christmas (with Maryrose Wood, also a Rodgers finalist); and Meet John Doe (with Eddie Sugarman), based on the Frank Capra film and a featured selection at last year’s ASCAP Musical Theater Workshops and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) Festival. He and Eddie also received a 2006 Jonathan Larson Award and are looking forward to the premiere production of Meet John Doe next season at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. He and Ms. Wood also wrote Love, Mom, a musical short film starring Tonya Pinkins and directed by Ted Sperling, which was featured in half a dozen U.S. and international film festivals last year. His songs have been performed at the Public Theater, the Lincoln Center songbook series, and on Public Radio International. He recently collaborated with esteemed American poet and opera librettist Kenward Elmslie (Miss Julie, The Seagull, Lizzie Borden) on a song for the off-Broadway revue, Lingoland. His symphonic Broadway orchestrations have been performed by symphonies across the country, and he has served as musical director for regional, touring and Off-Broadway productions in the U.S. and abroad. This winter, he will be a fellow at the MacDowell Artists’ Colony. For more information, please visit www.andrewgerle.com. |