September 5 - October 6, 2002
Written by Tammy Ryan
This award-winning new drama about musicians, their students, and a war-torn past, infuses the human psyche with passion, meaning and the healing nature of music. Irene and Ivan are making their way as music teachers in America, having fled their homes in Sarajevo. As their students present them with unexpected challenges, they realize that it is not only the music they are teaching, but also the passion of creating and the love of art.
November 11 - December 15, 2002
Co-Produced with Allegro Theatre Company
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Directed by Lee Sankowich
Choreographed by Richard Gibbs
Musical Direction by David Lohman
Wonderful Town, based on the play My Sister Eileen, is a fun-hearted musical about the adventures and misadventures of two wide-eyed sisters from Ohio who have rented a tiny basement studio in Greenwich Village, New York. Ruth, an aspiring writer, is of average appearance and can't keep a man's attention - no matter what! (The tune 100 Easy Ways to Lose a Man is a show-stopper.) Eileen, a fledgling actress, is Ruth's opposite. She is a wonderful dancer and has men constantly falling at her feet. Set in the 1930s, this comedic musical (complete with live musicians and colorful costumes and set) includes the memorable ballads: A Quiet Girl, It1s Love, as well as the nostalgic lament Ohio. Wonderful Town's Broadway debut garnished a multitude of Tony's, including Best Musical, Composer (Leonard Bernstein) and Actress (Rosalind Russell).
January 9 - February 9, 2003
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Lee Sankowich
Filled with romance, drama, and intrigue, Fugitive Kind revolves around colorful characters in a run down hotel on the St. Louis waterfront when beds went for 15 cents a night. The hotel is run by the lovely Glory who deals gangsters, drifters and socialites alike with an iron hand and soft heart.
Following the success of Marin Theatre Company's 1999 world premiere production of Tennessee Williams' Spring Storm, Artistic Director Lee Sankowich was given access by the Williams estate to the playwright's extensive archives. The result is a Sankowich-directed Professional World Premiere of an unknown Williams play, Fugitive Kind. (The film under this name was actually based on another Williams play.) Fugitive Kind was written when Williams was a 26-year-old college student (the same year he wrote Spring Storm). The drama centers around the people who occupy and pass through a transient hotel on the St. Louis waterfront, when beds went for 15 cents a night. The hotel is run by the owner's daughter, who deals with the array of characters - gangsters and drifters alike - with an iron hand and a soft heart. Their lives provide spicy plots and subplots, including a love story.
March 13 - April 13, 2003
Written by Allan Knee
Direction & Musical Staging by Eleanor Reissa
Marin Theatre Company presents the West Coast Premiere of Syncopation by New York playwright Allan Knee. Set in 1911 on New York's Lower East Side, Syncopation's charming love story and ballroom dance-filled scenes will have the audience cheering.
This Romantic Comedy, set in 1911 on New York's Lower East Side, revolves around Henry, a meat packer in a kosher butcher shop who dreams of becoming a championship ballroom dancer, and Anna, a young garment worker, who answers his ad for a partner. Every dance-filled scene chronicles their subtly transforming relationship against the larger political backdrop of the times - the suffragette movement and the abolishment of sweatshops. In a world bursting with possibilities, it was a time men and women dreamed out loud.
May 8 - June 8, 2003
Written by Martin Duberman
Directed by Lee Sankowich
Marin Theatre Company presents the Beat Generation play Visions of Kerouac by New York playwright and noted historian Martin Duberman. Step into the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs and others who became the cultural icons of the Beat Generation.
Occasionally, a group of individuals come together and create a movement so powerful that they not only have a significant influence on their peers but one that lasts for many generations. The Beats in the 50s were one such group. In Visions of Kerouac*, we step into the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, and others as we experience them as wandering, reckless, free-thinking, brilliant souls, who become cultural icons. Visions reflects upon: Cassady and Kerouac's eventful trips across the country and to Mexico which later serve as the basis of Kerouac's landmark "On the Road"; Poetry readings from San Francisco's North Beach cafes: The Beat's embrace of jazz and Eastern religions; Jack's canonization on National T.V. and his mixed abilities to deal with such fame and success.
*Strong language, sexual and mature content
