Los Angeles Reprise! Series Announces 2007-2008 Slate of Four Shows

The Los Angeles-based Reprise! series has announced plans to add a fourth production for the 2007-2008 season. The lineup includes On Your Toes, Damn Yankees, Li'l Abner and Flora, the Red Menace. All performances will be held at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, home of the series' current production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George starring Manoel Felciano and Kelli O'Hara.

On Your Toes, scheduled to run August 14-26, will kick off the coming season. Featuring music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and a book by Rodgers, Hart and George Abbott, the 1936 musical centers around the staging of a ballet called "Slaughter on 10th Avenue." The show was most recently presented on Broadway in 1983 under the direction of Abbott and starring Natalia Makarova, Christine Andreas, George de la Peña, George S. Irving, Dina Merrill and Lara Teeter.

Damn Yankees, which opened on Broadway in 1955, will be presented November 6-18. Directed by George Abbott with musical numbers by Bob Fosse, the original cast of the beloved baseball musical included Gwen Verdon, Stephen Douglass and Ray Walston. The show was most recently revived on Broadway in 1994 with a cast that included Bebe Neuwirth, Victor Garber and Jarrod Emick.

Li'l Abner will be the third production, running February 5-17, 2008, and directed by David Lee. Based on Al Capp's popular comic strip, the show opened on Broadway in 1956 and has not been revived there since. It starred Edith Adams as Daisy Mae, Stubby Kaye as Marryin' Sam and Peter Palmer in the title role.

The final production will be Flora, the Red Menace, which will run May 6-18, 2008. Featuring music by John Kander, music by Fred Ebb, and book and direction by George Abbott, Flora launched the career of Liza Minnelli during its short Broadway run in 1965.