Musical Theater: FY2002 Grants

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

Access | Challenge America Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation

Panelists

Access

M Ensemble Company, Inc.
Miami, FL
$8,000
To support the production of a musical. The M Ensemble Company will produce Shoehorn by Idris Ackamoor at three locations in Miami-Dade County.

NY Artists Unlimited, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support performances and tour of a bilingual musical dramatization of poetry by Julia de Burgos. NY Artists Unlimited will present and tour Song of the Simple Truth-El Canto de Julia de Burgos to underserved and predominantly Latino and African American audiences in New York City and in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York State.

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$8,000
To support the revival of an original musical about the French revolution, Louis Lou I. Young At Heart Chorus, an ensemble of performers who are over 70 years old, will revive a musical from its repertory that played at the 800-seat Academy of Music Theater in Northampton to sold-out houses in 1991.

Challenge America Access

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$30,000
To support the tour and production of professional deaf theater for new audiences in New York City. Deaf West Theatre Company will identify and secure a venue in New York to co-produce the musical production of Oliver! in American Sign Language.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$30,000
To support the creation of a new play in collaboration with students and their families, school teachers, administrators, and members of the public and a tour of the production throughout Ohio and surrounding states. Participants will collaborate to create plays based on local history and folklore.

Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn, NJ
$25,000
To support the Access Program for the Disabled. To ensure that all individuals may benefit from the performing arts, Paper Mill Playhouse has designed a program that includes services for the deaf and hearing impaired, and barrier-free access for the physically disabled.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the New York productions and tour to Puerto Rico of children's theater in Spanish with accompanying workshops. Sociedad Educativa de las Artes' programs and performances preserve Latin American arts and culture through presentation of a repertory of Latin American children's classics and folk tales.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a tour of productions to western states and Washington, DC. Theatreworks/USA will tour Ferdinand the Bull, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Freedom Train to over 280,000 young people and families in seven western states and Washington, DC during its 2002-03 season.

Western Michigan's Cherry County Playhouse, Inc.
Muskegon, MI
$25,000
To support both the production of a new musical performed by a multicultural student ensemble and ancillary activities for the local community. The Cherry County Playhouse will present a musical theater work entitled Crash Nation that explores the emotional highs and lows of teenagers' lives and will offer educational outreach to local teens and their families.

Creativity

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the production of the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum, by Stephen Sondheim. A Contemporary Theatre and the 5th Avenue Theatre will produce the show as part of a collaborative effort to produce the entire Sondheim canon over the next decade.

American Musical Theatre of San Jose
San Jose, CA
$15,000
To support the creation of original songs for the Neighborhood Access-Musicals in the Neighborhood program that serves a multi-ethnic community. The organization will commission composer Craig Bohmler and lyricist Marion Adler to create a new libretto and original songs for a touring production in the Santa Clara Valley.

Apple Tree Theatre (Eileen Boevers Performing Arts Workshop)
Highland Park, IL
$12,000
To support the production and re-orchestration of the musical Bubbling Black Girl. Apple Tree Theatre will remount the musical with the creator of the book, lyrics and music, Kirsten Childs; musical director Tom Murray; and composer Curtis Moore.

Geva Theatre, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the production of a new musical. Geva Theatre will produce Convenience by Associate Artist Gregg Coffin, a musical that the theater has developed over the last two years.

Goodman Theatre (Chicago Theatre Group, Inc.)
Chicago, IL
$65,000
To support the commission and production of a world premiere opera. The Goodman Theatre will commission and produce the premiere of Galileo, an opera about the mathematician, revolutionary astronomer and inventor by Philip Glass and Mary Zimmerman.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.
East Haddam, CT
$60,000
To support the development and re-creation of a rarely produced musical. Goodspeed will create new orchestration for and develop, through readings and studio workshops, The Baker's Wife, by composer Stephen Schwartz and librettist Joseph Stein.

INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc.)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support the translation, development and production of a new musical work. INTAR will produce the world premiere of Havana Under The Sea by Abilio Estevez, a musical about the Cuban troubadours.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the production of The Sondheim Celebration. The project will honor the artistic excellence of Stephen Sondheim and his 40 years of contributions to the uniquely American art form of musical theater.

Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$10,000
To support a production of the musical The Will Rogers Follies. Paying tribute to Oklahoma's favorite son, Will Rogers, the musical will kickoff a series of statewide events leading up to Oklahoma's 100th anniversary celebration in 2007.

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the creation of a new musical theater piece. Composer Diedre Murray in collaboration with Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner will create a new work, Prophet Motive, set in an African American church in New York.

Musical Theatre Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support rehearsal and production of an original musical. The project will be based on Joan Rivers' teleplay The Girl Most Likely To, with music by Zina Goldrich, lyrics by Marcy Heisler, and book by Doublas Berstein and Denis Markell.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the 14th annual Festival of New Musicals. The festival showcases eight to 10 new musicals before an invited audience of producers and musical theater professionals.

New Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the production of a new musical. Supermax, by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie, is a recently commissioned musical theater work that depicts the banality of evil in American society.

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc.
Beverly, MA
$20,000
To support three works in the New Works Development Program. North Shore Music Theatre will produce on its main stage the new musicals: The Night Hunter, I Sent a Letter to My Love, and Martin Guerre.

Park Square Theatre
St. Paul, MN
$7,000
To support the area premiere of Side Show. The creator and writer of the musical, Bill Russell, will direct the production.

Prince Music Theater (American Music Theater Festival, Inc.)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support The Greenhouse Project, a developmental program designed to support new work in musical theater. American Music Theater Festival will provide readings, workshops and dramaturgical, musical and production support for creators of new work.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the development, production and national tour of an original musical comedy. The new work will focus on national or community events in San Francisco and will tour Bay Area parks and venues throughout California.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$65,000
To support the world premiere production of a musical theater work. Gabriel Barre will direct Temple, a piece by poet Silvia Peto and composer Norman Durkee based on the life of an autistic woman, Dr. Temple Grandin.

Staret... The Directors Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support The Harold Prince Musical Theatre Program. The Directors Company started this program to ensure the vitality of American musical theater and to provide developmental support to emerging musical theater artists.

Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$15,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical. Tennessee Repertory Theatre will produce Francis of Guernica by Marcus Hummon.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$30,000
To support the development and production of a new musical. TheatreWorks will produce the world premiere of Kept, with music by Henry Krieger and book and lyrics by Bill Russell.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$10,000
To support Village Originals Series, a musical theater development program. Three new musicals will each receive three weeks of development and three readings.

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development and full production of a new musical. Vineyard Theatre will produce Brutal Imagination, a new musical theater piece with text by Cornelius Eady and score by Diedre Murray.

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the world-premiere production of a new musical. Vivian Beaumont Theater will present Thou Shall Not, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, music and lyrics by Harry Connick, Jr., and book by David Thompson.

Heritage/Preservation

Auditorium Theatre Council
Chicago, IL
$22,000
To support the concert stagings of two musicals in an annual series of three seldomly performed American musicals for Chicago audiences. The Auditorium Theater Council annually presents two or three American musicals to celebrate the artistry of musical theater writers and composers and a uniquely American art form, the Broadway musical.

City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the restoration, remounting and concert staging of a musical in the City Center Encores! project. City Center will remount and produce House of Flowers by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote in its 2,753-seat theater.

National Black Touring Circuit, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Gospel in Theater Project. National Black Touring Circuit will present three theater pieces that include the music of the Great Divas of Gospel and the sermons and music of James Weldon Johnson.

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