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Musical Theater: FY2003 Grants

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

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Access

Amas Musical Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support the presentation of a new musical, in-school residencies, the creation and distribution of an education guide, and an outreach concert for the Brooklyn and Crown Heights New York community. In consortium with Documentary Arts of Dallas, Texas, Amas Musical Theatre will produce Blind Lemon Blues, by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde, off-Broadway in New York City.

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (AMTF) (aka Prince Music Theater)
Philadelphia, PA
$55,000
To support the Multi-generational Arts Initiative, a comprehensive artistic, marketing and educational project to encourage active audience participation and theater attendance. The Initiative will offer an annual family series of live performances, workshops and films intended to reach the widest possible audience, expand outreach and bring multigenerational audiences to the theater.

American Musical Theatre of San Jose (aka AMTSJ)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
To support and expand accommodation services for blind/sight-impaired and deaf/hearing-impaired patrons. Each mainstage show will be made accessible to these special-needs audiences through human and technological resources.

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$60,000
To support the creation of a new musical that is culturally relevant and linguistically appropriate for both deaf and hearing audiences. Based on the classic love story Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, the new sign language musical will use technology to create accessibility for both audiences and artists.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation of a new musical based on the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. A consortium of regional theaters will create and produce the musical Lewis & Clark with book by Arthur Kopit, and music and lyrics by Donald Alan Siegal.

M Ensemble Company, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support the production of a musical work. New York actress Bukanla will play the lead character of Moms Mabley and Jerry Maple, Jr. will direct the M Ensemble Company's production of Jackie Moms Mabley, Live!

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$23,000
To support the creation of a new play in collaboration with students and their families, school teachers and members of the public, and a tour of that production throughout Ohio and surrounding states. Participants will collaborate to create plays based on local history and folklore.

MCT, Inc. (aka Missoula Children's Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$25,000
To support the MCT Tour Project, a touring musical theater residency project offered to children nationwide. By using participatory performing arts workshops and performances, Missoula Children's Theatre strives to empower and develop life skills for children.

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka North Shore Music Theatre)
Beverly, MA
$30,000
To support a collaborative program for deaf, hard of hearing and hearing individuals to create a performance piece that will tour. Sign Stage, a prototype program, will include classes, workshops and a new musical theater work that will tour throughout New England.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc. (aka Sociedad Educativa de las Artes)
New York, NY
$32,000
To support productions of children's theater with accompanying workshops in New York and a tour to Puerto Rico. Through the presentation of Latin-American children's classics and folk tales, Sociedad Educativa de las Artes' (SEA) preserves Latin-American arts and culture.

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$15,000
To support the creation and production of an original musical that explores the lives of senior citizens. The new musical, Road to Nowhere, will incorporate music not commonly sung by older Americans and video images to depict the experiences of older workers in supermarkets, fast food joints and large department stores.

Creativity

American Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$45,000
To support the commissioning, development and production of a new musical theater work. Story In Story Out will be written by composer, musician and performer Rinde Eckert and developed with Artistic Director Robert Woodruff and members of the company.

Classic Stage Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and production of a music theater work adapted from an American classic novel. John Moran will adapt The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, for the stage.

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
$20,000
To support the re-mounting and tour of two musicals for family audiences. Sing Down The Moon and Perseus Bayou will be remounted in the 1,900-seat Concert Hall at George Mason University's Center for the Arts and sent on tour in repertory.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.
East Haddam, CT
$53,000
To support the development and re-creation of a musical theater work. After commissioning a re orchestration, book re-writes, and dance and vocal arrangements, Goodspeed Opera House will produce A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at its East Haddam mainstage theater.

Illusion Theater &School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the commission and creation of a new musical theater work. Composer and lyricist Rob Hartmann and adaptor Peter Rothstein will create a new musical entitled The Century Ballroom with choreography by Danny Buraecski.

Lincoln Center Theatre (Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the premiere production of a new musical work. Joe Mantello will direct A Man Of No Importance, with libretto by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and score by Stephen Flaherty.

Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$15,000
To support a production of The Wizard of Oz. The productions will serve as the centerpiece for Lyric's summer season and a three-week Lyric Academy "Camp Oz."

Mabou Mines
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the premiere of a large-scale dance/puppet opera entitled Red Beads. Artistic Director Lee Breuer, Puppetry Director Basil Twist, choreographers David Neumann, Clove Galilee and Mary Overlie, and composer Ushio Torikai have developed the new work.

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the production of a new musical theater work. Based on the story of Tokyo Rose, the piece will be created and directed by Sonolo Kawahara with original music by composer Diedre Murray.

Musical Theatre Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the rehearsal and staged reading of Shimmer, a new musical-in-progress, based on Sarah Schulman's novel. Shimmer will receive three professional staged readings at the 99-seat Linhart Theatre.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the 15th Annual Festival of New Musicals. The Festival will showcase 10-15 new musicals before an invited audience of producers and musical theater professionals.

New Professional Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new musical theater work. New Professional Theater will produce Skindiver, a new work written by playwright Charles Randolph Wright with music by Nona Hendrix.

New Tuners Theatre (Performance Community)
Chicago, IL
$9,000
To support the public presentation of new musicals-in-progress. The Stages Festival presents up to two- dozen musicals that are selected from over 100 submissions and are performed as concert readings or skeletal productions.

Park Square Theatre Company
St. Paul, MN
$12,000
To support a production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures. The work will provide an opportunity for collaboration with Theater Mu, the area's only Asian-American theater company.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of a new musical. The Look of Love, co-conceived by David Thompson, Scott Ellis and David Loud with choreography by Ann Reinking, will feature the music and lyrics of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$27,000
To support the development, production and national tour of an original musical comedy. San Francisco Mime Troupe will premiere a new work that focuses on national or community events in San Francisco and will tour Bay Area parks and venues throughout California.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical work. Second Stage Theatre will produce Little Fish, written by Michael John LaChuisa, with direction and choreography by Graciela Daniele.

Signature Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$30,000
To support the re-creation of an original 1960s musical theater work. Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will direct and collaborate with Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt to create a new production of the 1962 musical 110 In The Shade.

State Theater Company
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new musical tentatively titled The Parker Project. Producing Artistic Director Scott Kanoff will collaborate with country music legend Larry Gatlin to develop the piece.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new music-theater work. Belize will be written by Paul Zimet and composed by Ellen Maddow.

Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development of a new theatrical piece based on Mozart's Apollo et Hyacinthus. The company will undertake a three-week workshop of the piece, which will be conceived and directed by Moises Kaufman.

The Directors Company
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Harold Prince Musical Theatre Program. Under the guidance of Master Director Harold Prince the program provides artists with the artistic, production and administrative support needed to develop their new musicals.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the New Works Development Program. Two works in progress will be developed through a seven-stage process culminating in full productions and national tours.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$50,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical. Trinity Repertory Company will produce Largo, a new work with book by David Henry Hwang and music and lyrics by Rob Hyman, Rick Chertoff, David Forman and Eric Bazillian.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$10,000
To support a musical theater development program. Five staged readings and five table readings of new musical works will take place in Village Theatre's development program, Village Originals.

Vineyard Theatre &Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development, lab production and full production of a new musical theater piece. The Miracle Brothers, by Kirsten Childs, is the first commission of the Kitty Carlisle Hart Music Theatre Lab of Vineyard Theatre.

Willows Theatre Company/The Benefactors
Concord, CA
$30,000
To support the commission, development and production of a large-scale outdoor musical. The musical Sacagawea will explore the voyage of discovery of the Lewis &Clark expedition and the relationship between William Clark and the young Indian guide, Sacagawea.


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