2006 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 14, 2005 deadline ]

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts | Museum | Music | Musical Theater | Opera | Presenting
Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Musical Theater

5th Avenue Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the Seattle premiere of a contemporary musical with accompanying educational activities. Stephen Schwartz and Roger O'Hirson's Tony Award-winning musical Pippin will be directed by David Armstrong and feature new choreography and changes to the book and lyrics.

Actors Express, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$12,000
To support the premiere of a new musical play with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Alliance Theatre Associate Artistic Director Kent Gash will direct Love Jerry - A Musical About Brothers, with script and music written and composed by Megan Gogerty.

Augustana College (on behalf of The Children's Theater of Sioux Falls)
Sioux Falls, SD
$12,000
To support regional touring of an original musical and a residency program. A Midwest tour of Stand Together will offer schools and community organizations live musical theater and educate them about issues related to tolerance and diversity.

Barrington Stage Company Inc.
Sheffield, MA
$25,000
To support the inauguration of the Musical Theater Lab for emerging artists. Under the mentorship of Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist William Finn and lyricist/ librettist Sarah Schlesinger of New York University's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, the Lab will identify and assist emerging musical theater writers, composers, and lyricists as they develop new work.

Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (Consortium)
Columbus, OH
$35,000
To support a consortium project to commission the adaptation and translation into American Sign Language (ASL) of a musical. Deaf West Theatre will tour a new production of The Secret Garden incorporating deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing actors performing in both spoken English and ASL.

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$22,000
To support the development and production of a musical for young audiences. Based on Collodi's story of the wooden puppet Pinocchio, the new musical Geppetto & Son by composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz and writer David Stern will accomodate the time limitations and smaller casts of professional theaters for young audiences.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support the production of a musical. As part of the 40th-anniversary season, Tim Dang will direct a revival of the theater's 1994 production of Sweeney Todd by composer Stephen Sondheim and lyricist Hugh Wheeler.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. (aka La MaMa E.T.C.)
New York, NY
$33,000
To support the creation and production of a new operatic theater work based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Artistic Director Ellen Stewart will create and direct the work with music composed by Genji Ito, lyrics by Ellen Stewart, and musical direction by Michael Sirotta.

Lyric Stage, Inc.
Irving, TX
$8,000
To support the revival and production of a classic musical work. Sheilah Vaughn Walker will conduct the music for Cabin in the Sky with book by Lynn Root, lyrics by John Latouche, and music by Vernon Duke.

Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$18,000
To support the production of a contemporary musical. Beauty and the Beast, with a score by Alan Menken, Tim Rice, and the late Howard Ashman, will be produced as part of the 2006 summer season at the Civic Center Music Hall.

Mum Puppettheatre, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the recreation and production of a musical theater work. The Wizard of Oz, with music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg, will be performed using live actors and puppets.

Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Association
Nashville, TN
$18,000
To support the production and musical adaptation of classic children's literature. During the New Classics Project, musical stagings of The Wind in the Willows and Peter Pan:The Story of Peter & Wendy will be included in the theater's school performance series, accompanied by standards-based curriculum guides, teacher training, post-show disucssions, and family workshops.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the 18th annual Festival of New Musicals. The festival will showcase new musicals for an invited audience of producers and musical theater professionals.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the production of a new musical adapted from a classic text. The world premiere of The Seven, a hip-hop musical adaptation by Will Power of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes, will be directed by Jo Bonney.

Next Theatre Company
Evanston, IL
$12,000
To support the premiere production of a new chamber musical by Joshua Smith and Jason Loewith adapted from The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice. Educational activities will include lectures, panel discussions, and in-school work at Evanston Township High School.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the production of a new adaptation of The Threepenny Opera. More than 4,000 New York City public high school students will study The Threepenny Opera and attend a performance through Roundabout Theatre's education programs.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the creation and tour of a new musical theater work. Leave the Light On will tour in Bay Area parks and to rural communities in northern and central California.

Signature Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$35,000
To support the production of a new musical theater work. The world premiere of the chamber musical Nevermore, by composer Matt Conner and playwright Norman Allen with orchestration by Jonathan Tunick, will be directed by Eric Schaeffer.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support productions of children's musical theater in Spanish, with accompanying workshops, in New York and Puerto Rico. The theater will offer free admission to low-income families as well as a discounted rate to community organizations.

Thalia Spanish Theatre Inc.
Sunnyside, NY
$12,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical. Tango & Flamenco, a musical fusion of tango and flamenco with original music composed and performed by bandoneon maestro Raul Jaurena and composer/guitarist Daniel Casares, will be directed by Gil Orrios.

Theater Mu Incorporated (aka Mu Performing Arts)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new musical. The Street Sweeper, by Rick Shiomi and composer/lyricist Kurt Miyashiro, will be based on the Benito folk tales of the Philippines and feature taiko drumming and martial arts movement.

Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego County (aka La Jolla Playhouse)
La Jolla, CA
$40,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical. The Essential Alice, a musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's novels by author Annie Weisman and composer/sound designer Michael Friedman, will be directed by Des McAnuff.

Theatre Building Chicago, NFP
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the public presentation of new musicals-in-progress. The Stages Festival will present as many as eight musicals, selected from more than 100 submissions, to be performed as concert readings or skeletal productions.

Theatre Under The Stars
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support the recreation and revival of a classic musical. In collaboration with original creators Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Associate Artistic Director Roy Hamlin will direct 110 in the Shade, which is based on the play The Rainmaker.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$25,000
To support the 2006 New Works Festival.

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development and workshop presentation of a new musical. My Mother and Umm Kulthum by Polly Pen will be developed in the Kitty Carlisle Hart Musical Theater Lab with accompanying dramaturgical support.

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. (aka Lincoln Center Theater)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical. A musical adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's novel The House of Bernarda Alba, by playwright Richard Nelson and composer Michael John La Chiusa, will be staged by director and choreographer Graciela Daniele.

York Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the development of new musicals. The annual Developmental Reading series will feature more than 40 readings of new musicals offered free-of-charge to composers, lyricists, and the general public.

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