Cryer and Ford Getting Their Act Together Again Off-Broadway

Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford will bring their new autobiographical show Getting Their Act Together Again to 59E59 Theaters for a limited engagement from April 10-20. Opening night is set for April 12.

Cryer and Ford are best known for their groundbreaking feminist musical I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road, which opened at the Public Theater in 1978 and moved to Circle in the Square Downtown for a three-year run. The show was later produced around the world and recorded in five languages. Getting Their Act Together Again brings the writing partners back to the stage almost 30 years later. From their undergrad years at DePauw University, through children and marriages and professional successes on and off Broadway, librettist Cryer and composer Ford mine the hits and a few of the side-splitting misses that have made them musical theater's most successful and enduring female writing team.

Cryer and Ford's first show in New York, Now Is the Time for All Good Men, was followed by the critically acclaimed, award-winning off-Broadway show The Last Sweet Days of Isaac and the Broadway show Shelter. The Manhattan Theatre Club produced their revue Hang On to the Good Times and the Williamstown Theatre Festival premiered their musical Eleanor recently revised as Einstein and the Roosevelts. Their two family musicals for American Girl are playing in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Their musical adaptation of Anne of Green Gables for TheatreWorks/USA is set to open March 29 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Between the two of them, Cryer and Ford have garnered a Grammy nomination, an Obie, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics' Circle Award, an Ed Kleban Award, two Joseph Jefferson Awards, two Emmys, two Writers Guild Awards, and four honorary doctorates. They are both council members of the Dramatists Guild of America, and Cryer is President of the Dramatists Guild Fund.