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Music Theatre + Opera
Preparing outstanding music theatre and opera artists for professional careers in the 21st century.
Past seasons
2018-2019
2018-2019
“Marie Begins” (Ellen Fishman/Julia Curcio)
New Work Reading
“Kiss Me, Kate” (Cole Porter/Samuel and Bella Spewack)
“Trouble In Tahiti” (Leonard Bernstein)
Student Lab
“Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers” (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Schwartz)
Musical Theatre Holiday Cabaret
“The Anxiety Project” (Rachel Dean/David Brush)
New Work Reading
“Xerxes” (George Frideric Handel/Silvio Stampiglia)
“The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)” (Eric Rockwell/Joanne Bogart)
Student Lab
“Triassic Parq” (Marshall Pailet/Bryce Norbitz/Steve Wargo)
Musical Theatre Showcase and Alumni Night
Opera Scenes
2017-2018
2017-2018
The Bartered Bride (Bedřich Smetana/ Marion Farquhar)
The Halloween Tree (Theo Popov/Tony Asaro)
New Works Reading
A New Brain (William Finn)
Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe (Jonathan Christenson)
Student Lab Production
The Breasts of Tiresias (Guillaume Apollinaire/Francis Poulenc)
The Fairy Queen (Henry Purcell/William Shakespeare)
Student Lab Production
Til Death (Amanda Prahl/Alexander Tom)
New Works Reading
Legally Blonde The Musical (Laurence O'Keefe/Nell Benjamin/Heather Hach/Amanda Brown)
Musical Theatre Showcase
Opera Scenes Performance
2016-2017
2016-2017
H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Babe: An Olympian Musical (Andrea Jill Higgins/Carolyn Gage)
New Works Reading
Guys and Dolls (Loesser)
The Last Five Years (Jason Robert Brown)
Student Lab
Cendrillon (Viardot)
Student Lab
Grey Gardens (Wright/Frankel/Korie)
Student Lab
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Prism (Ellen Reid/Roxie Perkins)
New Works Reading
Collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects
Acis and Galatea (Handel)
Student Lab
Shrek The Musical (Tesori)
2015–2016
2015–2016
Company (Furth/Sondheim)
Guadalupe - an opera in two acts (DeMars/Doyle/Whitehead)
Grease (Jacobs/Casey)
Workshop Production
L'elisir d'amore/The Elixir of Love (Donizetti/Romani)
The Drowsy Chaperone (Martin/McKellar/Lambert/Morrison)
2014–2015
2014–2015
Opera Double Bill: Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi)
Children of Eden (Schwartz & Caird)
Reefer Madness (Murphy & Studney)
Workshop Production
Owen Wingrave (Britten)
Anything Goes (Porter)
Co–Production with Phoenix Theatre
2013–2014 (50th Anniversary Season)
2013–2014 (50th Anniversary Season)
La Périchole (Offenbach)
Smile: The Musical (Hamlisch & Ashman)
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (Lazarus & Vosburgh)
Workshop Production
Cosi fan tutte (Mozart)
Sung in Italian
Rent (Larson)
Co–Production with Phoenix Theatre
2012–2013
2012–2013
Albert Herring (Britten)
Bat Boy: The Musical (O’Keefe, Farley, & Flemming)
The Fantasticks (Schmidt & Jones)
Workshop Production
Die Fledermaus (Strauss)
Sung in German
Little Women (Howland, Dickstein, & Knee)
2011–2012
2011–2012
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Gesner) (Revised Version)
Le Nozze Di Figaro (Mozart)
Sung in Italian
Cabaret (Kander and Ebb, revised 1987)
Workshop Production
Ainadamar (Golijov)
Sung in Spanish
The Music Man (Willson)
1964–2011
1964–2011
Since 1964, the Lyric Opera Theatre program in the ASU Herberger Institute School of Music has produced a variety of productions including musicals, operas, operettas and revues.
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