Rapp
A new play by Adam Rapp and a developmental presentation of a Kander & Ebb tuner are among the shows on the 2009-10 slate at Off Broadway's Vineyard Theater.
Season kicks off in September with "A Boy and His Soul," written and performed by Colman Domingo, who appeared as a thesp in the Off Broadway and Broadway incarnations of "Passing Strange." Show, to be helmed by Tony Kelly, chronicles a young black man's life in Philadelphia in the 1980s.
"The Metal Children," the latest from Rapp ("Red Light Winter"), bows in early 2010. Scribe also will direct the show, about a small-town controversy that ensues when a young-adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned.
On the projected lineup of the Vineyard's 2010 Developmental Lab Series is "The Scottsboro Boys," a new tuner with music and lyrics by John Kander and the late Fred Ebb and book by David Thompson. Susan Stroman will helm and choreograph the presentation, which centers on a group of African-American teens accused of a terrible crime in the 1930s.
Also on the Lab slate is "The Typographer's Dream," a play by Adam Bock ("The Receptionist") about three people and how they define, and are defined by, their jobs. Anne Kauffman ("The Thugs") directs.
Final full offering of the Vineyard season is previously announced new tuner "The Burnt Part Boys," by Mariana Elder (book), Nathan Tysen (lyrics) and Chris Miller (music). That show, directed by Erica Schmidt, is a co-production with fellow Off Broadway company Playwrights' Horizons, which will present the tuner on its mainstage in spring 2010.
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