'Saved!' Musical Joins Playwrights Horizons' 2007-8 Line-Up

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced the sixth production of its 2007/2008 Season.  

Joining the season's five previously-announced productions will be the World Premiere of Saved, a new musical with music & lyrics by Michael Friedman (the Civilians, Romeo & Juliet for Shakespeare in the Park this summer) and book and lyrics by 2-time Olivier Award nominee John Dempsey (The Witches of Eastwick) and Obie Award-winner Rinne Groff (The Ruby Sunrise, "Weeds"), based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture written by Brian Dannelly & Michael Urban.  Directed by Gary Griffin (The Color Purple), it will open in Spring 2008 at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).  

With Saved, Playwrights Horizons continues its commitment to developing unique and ground-breaking new musicals such as Grey Gardens (now on Broadway), James Joyce's The Dead, Floyd Collins, Assassins and Sunday in the Park with George.

Saved is being produced by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical.

"Are you down with G-O-D?'  Good girl Mary and her domineering best friend Hilary Faye are starting their senior year at the top of the social food chain at American Eagle Christian High School – that is, until Mary's boyfriend tells her he thinks he's gay.  When Jesus appears in a vision, and Mary heeds his message 'to do everything she can to help him,' her good deeds are met with dire consequences, and Mary is forced to question everything she's ever believed.  Through it all, she finds faith in unexpected places and learns what it truly means to be saved," state press materials.

All casting and dates for Saved will be announced in the coming months.

Saved joins five previously-announced productions: the world premiere of Kate Fodor's 100 Saints You Should Know, the world premiere of Sarah Treem's A Feminine Ending, directed by Blair Brown, the world premiere of Doris to Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine, the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize-finalist Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone and the New York City premiere of Adam Bock's The Drunken City.

Visit www.playwrightshorizons.org for more information.