Lincoln Center Theater will present William Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's new musical The Glorious Ones to kick off the new fall season. Cymbeline will begin performances in the Vivian Beaumont Theater on November 1and open on December 2. The Glorious Ones, directed and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, will play in the smaller Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater beginning October 11 and open on November 5. Casting and designers for both productions will be announced at a later date.
Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare's final plays, will be directed by Mark Lamos, who also directed LCT's production of Measure for Measure at the Newhouse. Lamos' most recent LCT productions include Edward Albee's Seascape, Sheridan's The Rivals and A. R. Gurney's Big Bill.
Writer Ahrens, composer Flaherty and director/choreographer Daniele return to LCT with The Glorious Ones, a new musical based on the novel by Francine Prose concerning a 17th-century troupe of commedia dell'arte actors. The team last collaborated on the musical Dessa Rose, and LCT also produced the Ahrens-Flaherty musicals A Man of No Importance and My Favorite Year. Daniele directed and choreographed the LCT productions of Michael John LaChuisa's Bernarda Alba, Marie Christine and Hello, Again, William Finn's A New Brain and Elegies: A Song Cycle and Chronicle of A Death Foretold.
In spring 2008, LCT will present a new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, directed by Bartlett Sher, the first Broadway production of the musical since its 1949 Broadway premiere, in the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
