Dear Friends,

Each season seems to bring us more excitement, more fun, and more great theatre than the last—and our 27th Season is no exception! Whether it’s a sultry and swinging take on Gilbert and Sullivan, a hilarious farce hot off of Broadway, one of the Golden Age’s greatest musicals, the return of San Francisco’s newest Christmas tradition, or the launching of two incredible new mainstage programs, Moon’s 2019-2020 season is out of this world, and we want you to come along for the ride.

Alongside our continued fantastic shows, 42nd Street Moon remains committed to making your whole theatre experience one to remem-ber. Regular patrons have already seen the significant changes to the Gateway Theatre, and we’re just getting started! Be sure to ask how you can be a part of our Capital Campaign.

Thank you for your support of the arts in the Bay Area. See you at the theatre!

Daren A.C. Carollo & Daniel Thomas Executive Directors, 42nd Street Moon

STORY AND BOOK BY PETER STONEMUSIC AND LYRICS BY MAURY YESTONDIRECTOR DAREN A.C. CAROLLOMUSIC DIRECTOR DANIEL THOMAS

The gorgeous, Tony Award-winning score comes lushly to life with a full orchestra and the Bay Area’s best vocal talent!

TITANIC THE MUSICAL IN CONCERT SEPTEMBER 7 & 8, 2019 AT 8:00 PM ALCAZAR THEATRE, 650 GEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO

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EXPERIENCE A FULLER MOONTake advantage of our special programs and enhance your theatre experience!

OPENING NIGHT SPECIALS: Join us as we celebrate each opening night, complete with complimentary champagne, wine, and hors d’oeuvres. (Series D)

DISCUSSION SUNDAYS: After the performance, experience a fun and informative talkbackwith the cast and crew. (Series E & K)

STUDENT MATINEES: Patrons under 18 and college students with a valid ID can see a show for $10! For kids, there will be an intermission contest, a post-show Q&A, an autograph session with the cast, and much more. (Series I)

SIZEABLE DISCOUNTS FOR SUBSCRIBERS 35 AND UNDER: If you’re age 35 or younger, you can purchase a subscription for up to 40% off, seeing live theatre almost as cheaply as a movie. (All series except A)

VIP SUBSCRIPTIONS: Receive the white-glove treatment with a VIP subscription! You’ll have the best seats, unlimited beverages including beer and wine, be the very first to receive notice on special events, and pay no exchange fees ever! (All series except A & B)

DONATE TO 42ND STREET MOON: With our special donor rewards, you’ll have more recognition and more fun when you donate, including special donor-only events and exciting gifts. Please consider including a donation along with your subscription. For more info, go to WWW.42NDSTMOON.ORG/DONATE.

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There are so many great new things happening at Moon—new directions in programming and educa-tion, great new improve-ments to the theater, and, of course, ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR SHOWS!

We can’t wait for you to be a part of it!

JOIN US!

Since the beginning of the American musical theatre, composers and librettists have looked to great plays for their source material. In our two most recent seasons alone, Moon has presented shows adapted from classics like Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie (New Girl in Town) and N. Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker (110 in the Shade).

42nd Street Moon’s BACK TO BACK SERIES will present classic musicals in repertory with the plays they’re based on. Audiences will be able to compare the language and structure of the original to its musical descen-dant and hear the monologues and dialogues that were transformed into song. We’re excited to give our audiences this one-of-a-kind experience!

In what may be the most ambitious venture in our history, 42nd Street Moon is announcing our commitment to be the first theatre company ever to produce every single professional stage show by legendary composer Stephen Sondheim.

THE SONDHEIM SWEEP will present his works, both lauded and obscure, either in production or in concert, for every season henceforward, from his first musical out of college (last season’s Saturday Night), to his most recent (Road Show), to whatever he comes up with next…

We look forward to honoring the reigning master of the musical form for many years to come! NOTE: Merrily

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Mike Todd’s original 1939 production starred the legendary tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and was a hit at the 1939 World’s Fair.

In 1986, Bell and Bowman found that the original materials for the show had disappeared, so they rebuilt it from the ground up for their revival at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC.

The 2016 revival of SCROOGE IN LOVE! at the Marines’ Memorial Theatre in San Francisco broke all existing box office records for 42nd Street Moon.

Writer Duane Poole started in Hollywood, creating animated series for Hanna-Barbera and writing and producing Aaron Spelling shows such as Hart to Hart, Hotel, and The Love Boat.

GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE… is based on the novel Israel Rank—best known as the inspiration for the 1949 Ealing film Kind Hearts and Coronets, with Alec Guinness in a classic comedic turn.

The New York Times said of the musical, “It will lift the hearts from all those who’ve been pining for what sometimes seems a lost art form.”

The original production was a notorious flop, running only 16 performances. It’s been rewritten numerous times since then to fantastic effect: recent productions in the West End, at Encores! (starring Lin-Manuel Miranda) and Off-Broadway, have been unequivocal hits.

MERRILY also features in the indie film Lady Bird (2017).

The original 1934 Broadway production of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG had a cast of 71 performers.

The play features several characters who are thinly-veiled versions of celebrities in Kaufman and Hart’s glittering inner circle, most notably fellow Algonquin Round Table member Dorothy Parker and composer George Gershwin.

Three of THE PAJAMA GAME’s songs became smash hits: “Hernando’s Hideaway,” “Hey There,” and “Steam Heat.”

Two of its songs, “There Once Was a Man” and “A New Town Is a Blue Town,” were written, uncredited, by Frank Loesser.

John Raitt reprised his Broadway lead opposite Doris Day in the 1957 film— his only starring film role.

BOOK AND LYRICS ADAPTED BY DAVID H. BELLMUSIC ADAPTED AND ARRANGED BY ROB BOWMANBASED ON “THE MIKADO” BY W.S. GILBERT & ARTHUR SULLIVAN

DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER JEFFREY POLKMUSIC DIRECTOR DAVE DOBRUSKY

MUSIC BY LARRY GROSSMANLYRICS BY KELLEN BLAIRBOOK BY DUANE POOLE

DIRECTOR DYAN MCBRIDECHOREOGRAPHER STACI ARRIAGAMUSIC DIRECTOR KEN BRILL

BOOK AND LYRICS BY ROBERT L. FREEDMANMUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEVEN LUTVAKBASED ON A NOVEL BY ROY HORNIMAN

DIRECTOR DAREN A.C. CAROLLOCHOREOGRAPHER CHRISTINA LAZOMUSIC DIRECTOR DANIEL THOMAS

MUSIC & LYRICS BY RICHARD ADLER & JERRY ROSSBOOK BY GEORGE ABBOTT & RICHARD BISSELLBASED ON A NOVEL BY RICHARD BISSELL

DIRECTOR RYAN WEIBLECHOREOGRAPHER KELLY COOPERMUSIC DIRECTOR DAVE DOBRUSKY

MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY GEORGE FURTHBASED ON THE ORIGINAL PLAY BY GEORGE S. KAUFMAN & MOSS HARTDIRECTOR DENNIS LICKTEIG & DAREN A.C. CAROLLOCHOREOGRAPHER RICK WALLACEMUSIC DIRECTOR DAVID MÖSCHLER

BY GEORGE S. KAUFMAN & MOSS HARTDIRECTOR DAREN A.C. CAROLLO

Part of 42nd Street Moon’s BACK TO BACK SERIES, presenting classic musicals in repertory with the plays they’re based on. (see reverse for more details)

HOT MIKADOSEP 25–OCT 13, 2019

HOT MIKADO takes the Gilbert and Sullivan oper-etta masterpiece and amps it up with a killer jazz interpretation of the scoreperformed by a multicul-tural cast who will have you dancing in the aisles! Welcome to Titipu, a town turned upside down by the arrival of Nanki-Poo, a roving trumpet player looking for his lost love, Yum Yum. Before long, he’s embroiled in the topsy-turvy machinations of Titipu’s powers-that-be, with hilarious results.

SCROOGE IN LOVE! had its world premiere at Moon in 2015, and our 2016 reprise was a smash hit. Set a year after the events of the Dickens tale, we find a reformed Scrooge looking for his lost love, Belle, and revisiting past, present, and future with hilarious, ghostly friends! Both side-splitting and hopelessly romantic, SCROOGE IN LOVE! is the per-fect holiday show for the whole family—and now a cherished San Francisco tradition!

A perfect blend of farce, romance, and treachery, GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE… won the Tony for Best Musical in 2014, and we’re proud to host the Bay Area pro-fessional premiere! When a commoner finds he’s eighth in line for an Earldom, he begins fiendishly plotting to move to the top of the heap. With a sparkling score and a crack ensemble cast, this GUIDE is part comedy of manners and part music hall romp—you’ll be dying of laughter.

One of the greatest scores of Broadway’s Golden Age, THE PAJAMA GAME is full of immortal standards, plus a story that continues to resonate with audiences: workplace romance, clashes between management and labor, and the great middle-class struggle to do more than just get by. Add to that the early cho-reographic genius of Bob Fosse, and you’re in for an evening of love, laughter, and some of musical theatre’s greatest songs.

A nakedly emotional cautionary tale of friendship told in reverse, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG is legendary. We follow three best friends from their wayward mid-dle age back to their idealistic youth as they find out where they took a wrong turn. At its heart is a rousing, ingeniously backward Sondheim score—his most classically “Broadway” in feel. MERRILY is a heartbreaking and exhilarating journey to recapture the hope of our youth.

Playwright Richard Niles is in crisis: he’s sold his soul, his integrity, and his dearest friendships for comfort and material success. One of the most ambitious undertakings of the writing team that brought the world You Can’t Take it with You, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Of Thee I Sing, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG is told in reverse, examining the motives and mores of the glittering art world between the Great War and the Great Depression.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: SCROOGE IN LOVE!DEC 4–23, 2019

A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDERFEB 26–MAR 15, 2020

THE PAJAMA GAMEAPR 15–MAY 3, 2020

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG THE 1981 MUSICAL

MAY 13–JUN 14, 2020

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG THE 1934 PLAY

MAY 20–JUN 7, 2020

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