{"id":5040,"date":"2011-08-22T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/international-city-theater-announces-2012-season\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T14:41:00","slug":"international-city-theater-announces-2012-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/international-city-theater-announces-2012-season","title":{"rendered":"International City Theater Announces 2012 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

1:41pm | <\/strong>caryn desai [sic<\/em>] puts her stamp on International City Theatre, selecting her first season of plays after taking on the role of producing artistic director earlier this year.<\/p>\n

ICT\u2019s 26th season will include the West Coast premieres of The Fix<\/strong>, a hard-hitting, political rock musical with book and lyrics by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe; and Ghost-Writer<\/strong>, a supernatural romance by award-winning playwright Michael Hollinger (Opus). Also on the slate: God of Carnage<\/strong> by Yasmina Reza, Leading Ladies<\/strong> by Ken Ludwig; and Ain\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019<\/strong>, the musical revue based on the life and music of Thomas \u201cFats\u201d Waller.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to think of this season as being \u2018not quite PC\u2019,\u201d laughs desai, who was selected by a unanimous vote of ICT\u2019s board of directors to take over when founding artistic director Shashin Desai retired last March. \u201cChoosing a season is a balancing act \u2013 finding the right mix. The stakes are high in each of these plays, with a brazen, \u2018take no prisoners\u2019 quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ICT 2012 season schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n

God of Carnage<\/strong>  (\u2026grownups behaving badly)
January 27 through February 19 (previews January 24, 25, 26)
Written by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s your chance to see this 2009 Tony Award-winner for Best Play in a more intimate setting! In Yasmina Reza\u2019s savagely caustic comedy, a playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the evening progresses and the rum flows, it quickly deteriorates into a finger-pointing, fur-flying, hilarious brawl, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters.<\/p>\n

The Fix<\/strong>  (\u2026politicians behaving badly)
April 27 through May 20 (previews April 24, 25, 26)
Book & Lyrics by John Dempsey
Music by Dana P. Rowe
Directed by Randy Brenner
Musical Direction by Darryl Archibald<\/p>\n

The West Coast premiere of a hard-edged, hard-boiled rock musical about the American political machine. A popular presidential candidate is dead, and his widow thrusts their son into the political spotlight. Her maniacal scheming is matched by that of her crippled brother-in-law, who will stop at nothing to see the boy elected. Together, the three of them make up one of the most dysfunctional almost-first families this side of real-life Washington politics. Nominated for London\u2019s 1998 Olivier Award for Best New Musical. (\u201cA knife-edged and courageously rock-edged score\u201d – The London Spectator)\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading Ladies <\/strong> (\u2026men behaving badly)
June 8 through July 1 (previews June 5, 6, 7)
Written by Ken Ludwig
A rollicking comedy about two down-on-their-luck actors who dress as women to con a dying woman out of her millions. A cross between Twelfth Night and Some Like It Hot, this hilarious comedy finds two actors, Leo Clark and Jack Gable, so down on their luck that they are performing \u201cScenes from Shakespeare\u201d on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. Mayhem ensues when they find out that the relatives aren’t nephews – but nieces!<\/p>\n

Ghost-Writer<\/strong>  (\u2026ghosts behaving badly)
August 24 through September 16 (previews August 21, 22, 23)
Written by Michael Hollinger<\/p>\n

Something mysterious is happening. In the West Coast premiere of an intimate spine-tingler from award-winning playwright Michael Hollinger (Opus), acclaimed novelist Franklin Woolsey has died. But his devoted secretary remains poised at her typewriter – waiting to channel the words that will complete his masterpiece. This ghost story of literary proportions questions where we draw the line between fact and fiction, between this life and beyond. Winner of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.<\/p>\n

Ain\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019  <\/strong>(but\u2026one never knows, do one?)
October 12 through November 4 (previews October 9, 10, 11)
Based on the life and music of Thomas \u201cFats\u201d Waller
Conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Based on an idea by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr.<\/p>\n

The joint will be jumpin\u2019 in this Tony Award-winning musical revue based on the life of Thomas \u201cFats\u201d Waller. Step back to the Golden Age of Jazz, when places like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were havens where snappy swing music, snazzy jazz and the stride piano infused the energy of the country.<\/p>\n

caryn desai had served as ICT\u2019s general manager for 21 years when she was selected by the board to succeed founding artistic director Shashin Desai. She has a diverse background, with experience in business as well as in the arts. A multiple award-winning director whose credits include classics, new works, musicals, and original performance pieces, she most recently directed ICT\u2019s acclaimed productions of The Old Settler, Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein and The Clean House. In addition to an MFA from UC Irvine, caryn holds Certificates in both Arts Administration and in Marketing and Fundraising from California State University Long Beach, and a Certificate in Acting from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She was selected by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission for the inaugural Arts Leadership Initiative program, received a full fellowship to the Stanford University School of Business Executive Program (one of 50 arts administrators in the U.S. selected for the inaugural program), and participated in Executive Coaching Training at the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara.  She has been a member of the acting faculty at Long Beach City College for 20 years, is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and is a former member of the Board of Governors for the L.A. Stage Alliance.<\/p>\n

International City Theatre, located in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, is Long Beach\u2019s Resident Professional Theater Company and recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Circle’s prestigious Margaret Harford Award for \u201cSustained Excellence in Theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information and to subscribe to the 2012 season, call 562-436-4610 or visit online at www.InternationalCityTheatre.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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