May 6-June 20, 2009
Coraline
Music and Lyrics by Book by
Stephin Merritt David Greenspan
Based on the Novel by
Neil Gaiman
Directed by Leigh Silverman
new musical from the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, based on a book by Neil Gaiman, is on the bill for the 2008-09 season at Off Broadway's MCC Theater.Also on the company's upcoming slate are world preems of plays by Neil LaBute and Michael Weller.
Merritt provides the music and lyrics to "Coraline," an adaptation of Gaiman's novella with a book by thesp-scribe David Greenspan. Plot follows a lonely girl who discovers a magical doorway to a skewed version of her own reality.
"Coraline" is the first tuner to be produced by MCC. Directed by Leigh Silverman ("Well"), show runs May 6-June 20, 2009.
All shows will be performed at the Lucille Lortel Theater, which has been home to MCC productions for the last few years.
Poor bored Coraline. She’s left to rattle round her perpetually distracted parents’ house all by her lonesome. Then one day, her dreams of a better reality are answered as she steps through an old oak doorway and passes into a perfected replica of her own world. Greeted there by a vastly loving Other Mother and kindly Other Father, she’s thrilled! But, as the saying goes: Be careful what you wish for…
A musical like no other, Coraline sprang from the minds of three of the most wildly popular cult heroes of our time. Adapted from the truly terrifying children’s book by Neil Gaiman (author of the international sensation Sandman), this tale of menace and mayhem is set to music and lyrics by smart-rock iconoclast Stephin Merritt (of The Magnetic Fields), and boasts a book by celebrated downtown actor-cum-auteur, David Greenspan, who serves double-duty as the villain, Coraline’s suspiciously nurturing Other Mother. |
发表于 2008-5-2 13:30:10