{"id":445,"date":"2009-04-14T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/04\/musicals-in-mufti-announces-its-spring-season.html"},"modified":"2009-04-14T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T04:43:00","slug":"musicals-in-mufti-announces-its-spring-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Musicals in Mufti Announces its Spring Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s not the crew at the Shubert Theatre, but we&#8217;ll be treated to <em>High Spirits <\/em>in NYC this spring after all. Here&#8217;s the lineup for Musicals in Mufti:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Grand Tour<\/em> (May 29-31),<br \/>Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman<br \/>Book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble<br \/>(Based on the play <em>Jacobowski and the Colonel<\/em> by Franz Werfel)<br \/>Directed by Michael Montel; music direction by James Bassi<br \/>&#8220;A bittersweet comic tale featuring love triangles, mistaken identity and a wedding at sea. At the onset of the Nazi invasion, two strangers with nothing in common travel from France to England and unexpectedly become the best of friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>High Spirits<\/em> (June 12-14)<br \/>Book, music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray<br \/>(Based on the play <em>Blithe Spirit<\/em> by No\u00ebl Coward)<br \/>Directed by Marc Bruni; music direction by Vadim Feichtner<br \/>&#8220;A happily re-married widower gets a surprise visit from his first wife when a kooky medium mistakenly awakens her spirit from the dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Knickerbocker Holiday<\/em> (June 26-28)<br \/>Book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson<br \/>Music by Kurt Weill<br \/>Directed by Michael Unger; music direction by John Bell<br \/>&#8220;On the eve of the American Revolution, the arrival of a new Governor in New York City (then called New Amsterdam) causes a great deal of chaos amongst his new constituents in this madcap &#8216;romantic-political-musical-comedy.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The York Theatre Company plays the Theatre at Saint Peter&#8217;s, which is located at 54th Street, east of Lexington Avenue. For more information or to purchase tickets, priced $37.50, call (212) 935-5820 or visit www.yorktheatre.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s not the crew at the Shubert Theatre, but we&#8217;ll be treated to High Spirits in NYC this spring after all. Here&#8217;s the lineup for Musicals in Mufti: The Grand Tour (May 29-31),Music and lyrics by Jerry HermanBook by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble(Based on the play Jacobowski and the Colonel by Franz Werfel)Directed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musicals in Mufti Announces its Spring Season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2072,2131,2132,2130],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-high-spirits","tag-knickerbocker-holiday","tag-musicals-in-mufti","tag-the-grand-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}