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Produced by Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Comely - Book by Bill & Cheri Steinkellner - Conceived by David Zippel
Princesses - A New Musical
Lyrics by David Zippel - Choreography by Rob Ashford - Music by Matthew Wilder

Princesses - A New Musical

Like most boarding school girls, these hip teens hate class, love shopping and have no interest in putting on a show. Enter America's hottest action hero to direct the play. All the girls are crazy for him, except for one -- his daughter, who barely knows him. Will she finally have a father, or will he head back to Hollywood when he has a better offer?

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Princesses Will Arrive on Broadway in July 2005; Lane and Comley Produce the Zippel Musical
By Kenneth Jones
Playbill
30 Apr 2004


Princesses, the new musical comedy about prep school girls who put on a musical version of "A Little Princess" with the help of a Hollywood superstar, is aiming toward Broadway in summer 2005, with Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley producing.

Stagings for the show had already been announced for Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre (fall) and Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre (early summer 2005), but the producing partners of the latter run had not been made public. Now they have, and July 2005 is the Broadway target.

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On Stage and Off
Overflowing With Princesses

By Jason Zinoman
The New York Times
Friday, April 30, 2004

In 2000 Andrew Lippa's musical of Joseph Moncure March's verse novella "The Wild Party" opened at the Manhattan Theater Club several weeks before Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe's adaptation of the same material began performances on Broadway. Mr. Lippa's next musical, "A Little Princess," an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel, is scheduled for Broadway next season. And wouldn't you know it? He has more princesses to contend with.

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Upcoming Productions
Goodspeed Opera House
Norma Terris Theatre
Chester, Connecticut
November 4-28, 2004
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The 5th Avenue Theatre
1308 5th Avenue
Seattle, Washington
May 31, 2005 - June 19, 2005
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Creative Team
Producers:
Stewart F. Lane and
Bonnie Comley

Book by:
Bill Steinkellner and Cheri Steinkellner

Conceived & Directed by:
David Zippel

Lyrics:
David Zippel

Choreography:
Rob Ashford

Composer:
Matthew Wilder

General Manager:
Roger Alan Gindi

Set Design:
Tony Walton

Costume Design:
William Ivy Long

 

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The 5th Avenue Theatre

 

 

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Stewart F. Lane Bonnie Comley Bill Steinkellner & Cheri Steinkellner David Zippel David Zippel Rob Ashford Matthew Wilder