Jerry Bock Children's Musical to Premiere in Houston

The newest musical by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Jerry Bock (Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello, The Apple Tree, She Loves Me), The Princess Who Could Not Be Heard, will be given its world-premiere production when it opens the 29th annual Houston Children's Theatre Festival from June 15 to 29 in Houston, Texas.  The show has music and lyrics by Bock and book by Sidney Berger, who founded Houston's Children's Theatre Festival in 1978, and which annually attracts more than 35,000 youngsters and their families to its productions.

The Princess Who Could Not Be Heard will play at the University of Houston's Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre (UH entrance #16 off Cullen Blvd.).

Bock -- who previously collaborated with Sidney Berger on six original musicals for Children's Theatre Festival, including The Land of Broken Toys in 2005 - is just one of several award-winning writers of international renown who have created new works for the Festival in Houston:  others include Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls…), Charles Strouse (Annie, Applause, and Bye, Bye, Birdie), and Mark Bramble (42nd Street).

Directed by Chesley Santoro Krohn, The Princess Who Could Not Be Heard is a tale of a deaf princess who is rejected by her own family because of her hearing disability but finds acceptance among circus performers.   Hanna Alcorn stars in the title role of Princess Alexandra.

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