5th Annual Festival of New Musicals
1993
Overview
September 12 - 13
Musicals
Brimstone
Synopsis
Brimstone is set in 1998 Belfast where the bloody dance between the Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant, continues with fury. Eamon Dunne, is the “man who walked away.” A prestigious architectural scholarship from Princeton University had taken Eamon out of strife filled Northern Ireland eight years before. At the play’s start, Eamon has returned home to attend the funeral of his brother, an Irish Republican Army terrorist gunned down by the police. In an attempt to come to grips with his brother’s death, Eamon must confront his own pacifism in the face of increasing violence. He also must confront the wild spirited Miraid, the woman that he left behind convinced by a family determined to keep him safe in America, that she no longer loved him. Though the plot is complicated by the presence of spies and counter spies, Brimstone is a love story framed by betrayal, both political and emotional. Also produced at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Majestic Theatre.
Writers & Artists
Milton Granger
Book & Lyrics & Music, Robin Hood
MILTON GRANGER is composer/librettist/lyricist of nine chamber operas, all of which have been produced multiple times throughout the U.S. by college opera workshops and regional companies; two (ÄúUncharted WatersÄù and ÄúTalk Opera’) are first-place National Opera Association prizewinners. Among his musical plays, ÄúCastle WalkÄù was a Next Link Selection of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, ÄúBronze MirrorÄù was selected for the Manhattan Theatre Mission Festival, and ÄúPeter Rabbit and the Garden of DoomÄù won the Actors Playhosue annual competition for children’s theater. Other musical plays have been produced by Seaside Music Theater, Mill Mountain Theater, and elsewhere, including multiple productions of his version of Dickens’ ÄúA Christmas CarolÄù.
Mark St. Germain
Book & Lyrics, Johnny Pye And The Foolkiller
Mark has written the plays FREUD’S LAST SESSION, DANCING LESSONS, CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM, THE GOD COMMITTEE, SCOTT AND HEM, OUT OF GAS ON LOVERS LEAP AND BECOMING DR. RUTH. He has written the musicals GIFTS OF THE MAGI, JOHNNY PYE, JOSEPH AND MARY, THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW AND JACK’S HOLIDAY with Randy Courts. Films include Carroll Ballard’s DUMA and the documentary he directed and produced, MY DOG, An Unconditional Love Story, with Richard Gere, Glenn Close, Edie Falco and others. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild East, an alumnus of New Dramatists and a Board Member and Associate Artist at the Barrington Stage Company.
Thomas Tierney
Lyrics & Music, Jungle Queen Debutante
THOMAS TIERNEY (music) composed ELEANOR – An American Love Story at Ford’s Theatre and many other U.S. theaters (as well as NAMT Festival) – and NARNIA (London and New York) based on ÄúThe Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeÄù (over 1500 productions worldwide). Other musicals: The Year of Living Dangerously (54 Below in NYC), Jungle Queen Debutante (NAMT Festival and Seattle’s Village Theatre), Off-Broadway’s Pets!, Tommy Tune’s one-man Ichabod (Boston Rep and Town Hall’s Interlude Series in New York), Diamond and the North Wind (several new works festivals including TRU at New York’s Player’s Theater and Village Theatre Originals, Seattle) and ZACK HILL and the Rocket Blaster Man Adventure (Winter Park Playhouse Festival of New Musicals in Florida). Also: AT&T’s theme song for Disney’s EPCOT Center, NBC’s Unicorn Tales, and 6 musicals for TheaterWorks/USA. Tom has performed his own music at NY’s Lincoln Center and at the White House. www.thomastierney.com
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