“The perfect season.” Time Out New York


STARCATCHER PETER AND THE


A New Play By Rick Elice


Directed by


Roger Rees and Alex Timbers February 18 - April 24, 2011


“This show never stops flying.”


Ben Brantley The New York Times


In the spring, NYTW mounted a stage adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s prequel to Peter Pan, Peter and the Starcatchers. With an exceptional cast of 12 actors, the company ingeniously created the world of the play, utilizing a few simple props and transforming themselves into a collection of more than 50 characters including orphans, pirates, mermaids and crocodiles. In his review, Ben Brantley noted that “Peter and the Starcatcher sustains a breathless air of adventure and a cocky confidence in its powers to enchant, with grown-up theatrical savvy and a child’s wonder.” Twice extended for an audience of 14,443, the play uncovered the century-old mystery of how Peter Pan became the boy who would not grow up.


THE SHAGGS:


PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD A New Musical By


Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madsen


Directed By John Langs


May 12 - July 4, 2011


“There are deep, disturbing joys to be had in this oddball- underdog odyssey.”


David Cote Time Out New York


NYTW concluded the Season with The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, a musical co- production with Playwrights Horizons. Garnering an audience of 10,158, The Shaggs tells the true story of a working class dad who, convinced his three musically-challenged daughters could be the family’s one-way ticket out of poverty, transforms them into a rock ‘n’ roll band. Set in Fremont, New Hampshire in the 1970s, the girls struggle to balance their father’s well-meaning obsession with their own confused ambitions. David Cote of Time Out New York called The Shaggs “a captivating and bravely weird new musical about the notoriously bad amateur rockers.”


Top (left to right): (1) Ivo van Hove and Elizabeth Marvel at the first rehearsal for The Little Foxes, (2) Dave Malloy, Rachel Chavkin, Rick Burkhardt and Alec Duffy at Three Pianos opening night, (3) The Shaggs cast members Jamey Hood, Sarah Sokolovic and Emily Walton with real life Wiggin sisters on opening night, (4) Celia Keenan-Bolger and Arnie Burton in rehearsal for Peter and the Starcatcher.


Production Photo Credits: Jan Versweyveld (The Little Foxes), Joan Marcus (Three Pianos, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Shaggs).


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