Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director; Stephen Eich, Executive Director; and Tom Ware, Producing Director) announced the theatre’s 2010 Season will include two world premiere musicals, a world premiere play, a fresh look at a favorite musical, a revival of a sultry farce and an award-winning contemporary play.

“I am tremendously excited about our programming plans for our 2010 Season.  Once again, our theatre will demonstrate the tremendous theatrical diversity for which we have become celebrated,” said Pasadena Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps. “Premiering new plays and musicals on our stage has been a much more frequent occurrence for the Playhouse over the past few years, and I believe that our audiences are thrilled to have the opportunity to see it here first, before these projects move on to life at other theatres all over the country and in fact all over the world.”

Pasadena Playhouse 2010 Season includes:

Camelot
Music by Frederic Loewe
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Directed by David Lee
begins previews January 2010

David Lee returns to kick off the season with a fresh take on this iconic American musical focusing on the three central characters, the power of a timeless love story and the magnificent score.

Fallen Angels
By Noel Coward
begins previews late February 2010

Coward (Private Lives, Present Laughter) brings us the story of two women, bored with their husbands and eager to reclaim their lost youth, who plan adulterous affairs with the same French lover.

Sight Unseen
By Donald Margulies
Directed by Dámaso Rodriguez
begins previews April 2010

The play tells the story of a controversial young artist who has become so successful he can claim astronomical prices for his works sight unseen from a waiting list of wealthy patrons.   When he visits his original muse and lover to reclaim an early painting, he must confront the opulent life that devours him.

Havana
Book by Nilo Cruz
Music by Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics by Jack Murphy
Directed by Sergio Trujillo
begins previews June 2010

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who brought us Anna In The Tropics (Pasadena Playhouse, 2005), and the incomparable composer Frank Wildhorn (Broadway’s Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel), comes a majestic new musical about the city whose blazing tropic days and seductive stormy nights are the stuff of legend.

Pastoral
by Frank Tangredi
begins previews September 2010

In Frank Tangredi’s world premiere play, Pastor Brendel’s path begins to get cloudy when a dark figure from her past resurfaces with the most unexpected and desperate of requests. Torn between her heart and her calling, the pastor must put three souls on the line and make the most difficult decision of her life.

The final production, which will be a new family musical, will be announced at a later date.  Previews for the final production will begin mid-October 2010.

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