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"Ain't Misbehavin" Announced for CTG's 2008-2009 Ahmanson Theatre Season
posted on Mar 25, 2008
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One
of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, the Tony Award-winning revue
"Ain't Misbehavin'," The Fats
Waller Musical Show, will be presented for the Ahmanson Theatre's 42nd
season at the Music Center of Los Angeles. The musical will run April
18 through May 31, 2009. Opening is set for April 24. "Misbehavin'"
joins a 2008-2009 season that will include the world premieres of two
major musical comedies, the winner of the
2007 Tony Award for Best Musical and the winner of the 2007 Tony Award
nomination for Best Play and the return of
the inimitable Dame Edna.
"I am very happy about this new season," said CTG’s Artistic
Director Michael Ritchie. "These productions represent my favorite
reasons for working at Center Theatre Group: We are creating two new
musical comedies from the ground up, each with a creative team that I
admire greatly – "9 to 5: The Musical" and "Minsky’s"; we're presenting
two of the shows from the 2007 Broadway season that knocked my socks
off – "Spring Awakening" and "Frost/Nixon"; we're re-visiting a musical
revue that I loved years ago which celebrates America's hot, homegrown
music – "Ain't Misbehavin'"; and, finally, we're bringing back Dame
Edna – what's more fun that that!"
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is an exclusive CTG engagement that
celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Tony Award-winning revue which
pays tribute to one of America's true originals, the charismatic
songwriter, singer, pianist and superb entertainer from the 1920s and
30s, Thomas "Fats" Waller. Based on his life and music, "Ain't
Misbehavin'" is conceived and directed by Richard Maltby, Jr., who won
the 1978 Tony Award for his work on the original production.
The musical brings the audience into the world which Fats Waller helped
make famous – the world of places such as The Cotton Club and the Savoy
Ballroom, of honky tonk dives along Lenox Avenue, of rent parties, of
stride piano players, and most importantly, that new beat – swing.
"Ain't Misbehavin'" includes 30 songs, all presented with the zest for
life and cheeky humor for which Waller was known: "The Joint is
Jumpin'," "Honeysuckle Rose," "Mean to Me," "I Can't Give You Anything
But Love," "Two Sleepy People," "T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do,"
"Your Feet's Too Big," "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a
Letter," "Black and Blue," "Ain't Misbehavin'" and more.
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is based on an idea by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr.
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