Music and lyrics by The Go-Go’s and Belinda Carlisle / Conceived by & original book by Jeff Whitty; adapted by James Magruder / Based on “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia” by Sir Philip Sidney / Directed by Brian Boruta (The Umbrella)
Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II / Book by Oscar Hammerstein II / Based on “Green Grow the Lilacs” by Lynn Riggs / Directed by Daniel Fish (Providence Performing Arts Center)
“We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That’s why these napkins are beautiful. That’s why my mother’s gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world, we are not invisible.”
Music by Jerry Bock / Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick / Book by Joseph Stein / Based on “Tevye the Dairyman” by Sholem Aleichem / Directed by Bartlett Sher (Broadway in Boston, Boston, MA)
“A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?”
Music by John Kander / Lyrics by Fred Ebb / Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse / Based on “Chicago” by Maurine Dallas Watkins / Directed by Walter Bobbie (Ambassador Theatre, New York City, NY)
Music by Chris Miller / Lyrics by Nathan Tysen / Book by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle / Based on “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt / Directed by Nancy Curran Willis (The Umbrella Arts Center)
Music, lyrics, and book by Irene Sankoff and David Hein / Directed by Daniel Goldstein based on original direction by Christopher Ashley (Providence Performing Arts Center)
Music and lyrics by Dolly Parton / Book by David H. Bell / Adapted by David H. Bell, Curt Wollan, and Paul T. Couch / Directed by Curt Wollan (Emerson Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA)
The honest-to-god real Dolly takes a bow before taking her seat directly in front of mine
Book by Alexander Dinelaris / Music and lyrics by various artists / Based on “The Bodyguard” by Mick Jackson and Lawrence Kasdan / Directed and choreographed by Nick Kenkel (North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly MA)
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton / Additional lyrics by Amy Powers / Book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton / Based on “Sunset Boulevard” by by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. / Directed by Kevin P. Hill (North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly MA)