Plane Crazy--previously seen at this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival--was one of four shows selected to be presented in April by the Oklahoma City University musical theater students.
The public presentation will occur on Sunday, April 23rd starting at 7 PM. The show will be presented as part of the "Stripped" New Musicals Project. "Stripped" is the student-run theatre company at OCU; "they are known for presenting projects in a 'stripped' manner...meaning no sets, costumes, props, sets, orchestra or choreography. Just actors, a piano, and the show," state press notes. For the New Musicals Project, the shows will be presented in concert style with narration provided between songs.
After receiving numerous submissions from composers in the United States, Canada and England, the "Stripped" judging committee selected four shows for the presentation. Each show will be represented by four songs and sections of the show's libretto.
Plane Crazy features book, lyrics and music by
Suzy Conn. The show is "the comedic and touching story of two airline stewardesses in the 1960s when stews were sexy and the world was sexist."
The show will join three other "Stripped" winners:
Flyer, The Musical features music and book by Dan Tramon and Diana Belkowski with additional book Donald Feltham. The musical is "a sweeping and joyous homage to the Wright Brothers and the invention that changed the world." The show was a winner of the 2004 NY ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop Award.
The Gift features music by
Andrew Gerle and lyrics by Maryrose Wood. The show is "a musical re-imagining of O. Henry's classic story,
The Gift of the Magi." It was a finalist for the Richard Rodgers Award for new musicals.
I Married Wyatt Earp has music by Michele Bourman, lyrics by Sheilah Rae, and a book by Sheilah Rae and Thomas Edward West. "Who caused the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral? The true life story of Earp's wife and the women of Tombstone."
The "Stripped" New Musicals Project will be presented on Sunday, April 23rd at 7PM in the Petree Recital Hall on the Oklahoma City University campus. The event is free and open to the general public. The show will feature directors and students from Oklahoma City University's Bass School of Music.
The New Musicals Project will coincide with the opening of the new, $38 million Bass School of Music facility which will provide state-of-the-art learning opportunities for OCU students.
For more information, call 1-800-633-7242 extension 5410, visit
this link or send an e-mail to
strippedOCU@yahoo.com.
