ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, WORKING and More Set for Lyric Stage's 2013-14 Season

Spiro Veloudos, Producing Artistic Director, today announced 5 of the 7 plays slotted for The Lyric Stage's 2013-14 season. The plays include two New England premieres, two hit American musicals (one in a new version not yet seen in this area), and one of the all-time-great classic plays of the American theatre.

Two New England Premieres:
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS - the British comedy that took Broadway by storm last year, based on Goldoni's hilarious The Servant of Two Masters.
WATER BY THE SPOONFUL - the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hudes about hope and human connection in a harsh and destabilizing world.

Two Acclaimed American Musicals:
WORKING - a new, updated version of the Stephen Schwartz musical based on Studs Terkel's magnificent oral history
INTO THE WOODS - Spiro Veloudos, an award-winning Sondheim specialist, turns his talents to this delightful fractured fairytale.

One of the Greatest Classics of the American Theatre:
DEATH OF A SALESMAN - humor and anguish, promise and loss, all set between the four walls of an American living room.

Plus two more plays to be announced soon.

7-play and 4-play subscriptions are now on sale for the 2013-14 season which runs from September, 2013 through June, 2014. Prices start at $152 and offer savings of up to 35% off regular ticket prices (that's like getting 2 plays for free.)

2013-14 SEASON PLAY DESCRIPTIONS:

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
by Richard Bean
NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE
Richard Bean's award-winning play is a glorious celebration of British comedy: a unique, laugh-out-loud mix of satire, songs, slapstick, and glittering one-liners. Based on The Servant of Two Masters, Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century Italian comedy, One Man, Two Guvnors gives you a funhouse parade of fools, lovers, clowns, parents, and pompous asses.

WATER BY THE SPOONFUL
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE

Water by the Spoonful, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, is a moving collage of lives in crisis. A group of seemingly unrelated characters search for human connection in a harsh and destabilizing world, looking for hope among their new-found "family." One by one, the troubled souls find acceptance, connection, even redemption, in this lyrical and lucid new play.

WORKING
Book by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso
With additional contributions by Gordon Greenberg
Songs by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor
From the book by Studs Terkel

From the everyday lives of "ordinary" working people comes a musical that is anything BUT ordinary! Adapted by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Godspell, Wicked) from Studs Terkel's magnificent oral history, Working reveals the hopes, dreams, joys, and concerns of average working Americans by following them through one 24-hour workday. Newly updated for the 21st century, Schwartz wrote the songs along with James Taylor and others, with 3 new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), creating an inspired eclectic, tuneful, moving, and uplifting score.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN
by Arthur Miller

Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman - the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine - Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. Death of a Salesman compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.

INTO THE WOODS
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by James Lapine

When a Baker and his Wife learn they've been cursed by the Witch next door, they embark into the woods on a quest to reverse that spell. Along the way they encounter an ambivalent Cinderella, an aggressive Red Riding Hood, a rebellious Rapunzel, a too-trusting Jack, and a couple of not-so-princely Princes. But when everyone's wishes are granted, the consequences of their self-centered actions come to haunt them. Eventually they learn a moving life lesson about working together, the stories we tell our children, and the real meaning of "happily ever after."

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