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NEW LINE THEATRE seeks scenic designer
at New Line Theatre in St. Louis, MO
NEW LINE THEATRE SEEKS
SCENIC DESIGNER/BUILDER
FOR REGIONAL PREMIERE OF "CRY-BABY"
AND THE RETURN OF "HIGH FIDELITY"
New Line Theatre, "the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre," seeks a scenic designer and builder for the company's next two productions. This is a paid position. The Broadway rock musical CRY-BABY will make its American regional premiere on New Line's stage in March, in its first production since Broadway. The Cry-Baby creators are reworking the show for New Line's production and may be coming to town to see it. And New Line brings one of its biggest successes back in June, the Broadway rock musical HIGH FIDELITY, which New Line presented in 2008 in its first production since Broadway. After a mostly sold-out run in 2008, New Line brings this brilliant show back in June.
Because New Line is a small company doing alternative work, the company generally works with fairly minimal, impressionistic sets, and New Line designers usually both design and build for us. The job includes acquiring materials, leading load-in and strike, and getting the set up and painted before cue-to-cue rehearsal a week before opening. Full details are available from the company for interested designers.
New Line's 21st season continues March 1-24, 2012, with the American regional premiere of the hilarious rockabilly Broadway musical CRY-BABY, which The Wall Street Journal called "the funniest new musical since Avenue Q." The show is based on the cult classic John Waters film starring Johnny Depp. The original creative team is reworking and re-orchestrating the show for New Line, to make it a smaller, more intimate musical. Cry-Baby has a score by David Javerbaum (The Daily Show) and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan. O'Donnell and Meehan also adapted John Waters' Hairspray for the Broadway stage. Cry-Baby focuses on teenager Allison Vernon-Williams in 1954 Baltimore, right at the birth of rock and roll, who wanders across the tracks from her square boyfriend and finishing-school life into a relationship with the orphaned Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, the leader of a pack of "bad kids." The musical premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in November 2007 and opened on Broadway in April 2008. It was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Choreography. It was also nominated for Best Musical by the Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.
New Line's season will close May 31-June 23, 2012, with the return of one of New Line's biggest hits, HIGH FIDELITY, with a book by David Lindsay-Abaire, music by Tom Kitt (Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of "Next to Normal"), and lyrics by Amanda Green. In 2008, New Line presented the American regional premiere of the show, which won raves all around. Mark Bretz of The Ladue News named it the best show of the year. New Line was the first company outside New York to produce this smart, funny show about America's new Lost Generation and the music they live their lives to. This is a genuine rock and roll score, inspired by and peppered with musical references to some of the great rock and pop artists of our time, the muscular American rock sound of Bruce Springsteen, the raw rage of Guns N' Roses, the Eastern experiments of George Harrison and The Beatles, the intellectual playfulness of The Talking Heads, the fierce defiance of Aretha Franklin, the smoky groove of Percy Sledge, the naked emotion of Ben Folds, the driving cynicism of Billy Joel. Since New Line produced High Fidelity in 2008, more than a dozen other companies around the country have come to New Line to get in contact with that show's creators to secure production rights. New Line brought this brilliant show back to life after its rejection by the New York critics, and we hope to do the same for Cry-Baby.
New Line Theatre is a professional company dedicated to involving the people of the St. Louis region in the exploration and creation of daring, provocative, socially and politically relevant works of musical theatre. New Line Theatre was created in 1991 at the vanguard of a new wave of nonprofit musical theatre just starting to take hold across the country. New Line has given birth to several world premiere musicals over the years and has brought back to life many shows that did not do well in their original New York productions. Altogether, New Line has produced 61 musicals since 1991. New Line Theatre was recently given its own entry in the latest edition of the prestigious Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. New Line receives funding from the Regional Arts Commission, the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation, and the Missouri Arts Council.
For other information, visit New Line Theatre's full-service website at www.newlinetheatre.com. All programs are subject to change.
SCENIC DESIGNER/BUILDER
FOR REGIONAL PREMIERE OF "CRY-BABY"
AND THE RETURN OF "HIGH FIDELITY"
New Line Theatre, "the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre," seeks a scenic designer and builder for the company's next two productions. This is a paid position. The Broadway rock musical CRY-BABY will make its American regional premiere on New Line's stage in March, in its first production since Broadway. The Cry-Baby creators are reworking the show for New Line's production and may be coming to town to see it. And New Line brings one of its biggest successes back in June, the Broadway rock musical HIGH FIDELITY, which New Line presented in 2008 in its first production since Broadway. After a mostly sold-out run in 2008, New Line brings this brilliant show back in June.
Because New Line is a small company doing alternative work, the company generally works with fairly minimal, impressionistic sets, and New Line designers usually both design and build for us. The job includes acquiring materials, leading load-in and strike, and getting the set up and painted before cue-to-cue rehearsal a week before opening. Full details are available from the company for interested designers.
New Line's 21st season continues March 1-24, 2012, with the American regional premiere of the hilarious rockabilly Broadway musical CRY-BABY, which The Wall Street Journal called "the funniest new musical since Avenue Q." The show is based on the cult classic John Waters film starring Johnny Depp. The original creative team is reworking and re-orchestrating the show for New Line, to make it a smaller, more intimate musical. Cry-Baby has a score by David Javerbaum (The Daily Show) and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan. O'Donnell and Meehan also adapted John Waters' Hairspray for the Broadway stage. Cry-Baby focuses on teenager Allison Vernon-Williams in 1954 Baltimore, right at the birth of rock and roll, who wanders across the tracks from her square boyfriend and finishing-school life into a relationship with the orphaned Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, the leader of a pack of "bad kids." The musical premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in November 2007 and opened on Broadway in April 2008. It was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Choreography. It was also nominated for Best Musical by the Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.
New Line's season will close May 31-June 23, 2012, with the return of one of New Line's biggest hits, HIGH FIDELITY, with a book by David Lindsay-Abaire, music by Tom Kitt (Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of "Next to Normal"), and lyrics by Amanda Green. In 2008, New Line presented the American regional premiere of the show, which won raves all around. Mark Bretz of The Ladue News named it the best show of the year. New Line was the first company outside New York to produce this smart, funny show about America's new Lost Generation and the music they live their lives to. This is a genuine rock and roll score, inspired by and peppered with musical references to some of the great rock and pop artists of our time, the muscular American rock sound of Bruce Springsteen, the raw rage of Guns N' Roses, the Eastern experiments of George Harrison and The Beatles, the intellectual playfulness of The Talking Heads, the fierce defiance of Aretha Franklin, the smoky groove of Percy Sledge, the naked emotion of Ben Folds, the driving cynicism of Billy Joel. Since New Line produced High Fidelity in 2008, more than a dozen other companies around the country have come to New Line to get in contact with that show's creators to secure production rights. New Line brought this brilliant show back to life after its rejection by the New York critics, and we hope to do the same for Cry-Baby.
New Line Theatre is a professional company dedicated to involving the people of the St. Louis region in the exploration and creation of daring, provocative, socially and politically relevant works of musical theatre. New Line Theatre was created in 1991 at the vanguard of a new wave of nonprofit musical theatre just starting to take hold across the country. New Line has given birth to several world premiere musicals over the years and has brought back to life many shows that did not do well in their original New York productions. Altogether, New Line has produced 61 musicals since 1991. New Line Theatre was recently given its own entry in the latest edition of the prestigious Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. New Line receives funding from the Regional Arts Commission, the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation, and the Missouri Arts Council.
For other information, visit New Line Theatre's full-service website at www.newlinetheatre.com. All programs are subject to change.
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