YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) will present the world premiere of POP!, a new musical with book and lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman and music by Anna K. Jacobs, directed by Mark Brokaw, at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street), November 27-December 19, 2009. Opening Night is December 3.
ABOUT POP! Who shot Andy Warhol?
The fabulous drag queen Candy Darling hosts a happening whodunit musical in which the famous—and infamous—denizens of Warhol’s legendary Factory all have motives to pull the trigger. But the pop art icon unravels an even bigger mystery as he confronts not only the prime suspects, but also his art and his own greatest creation: himself.(POP! contains strong language and adult content.)
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
MAGGIE-KATE COLEMAN (Book, Lyrics) is the author Stepmommy Dearest, a song cycle written with Anna K. Jacobs; and From a Childhood, written with Erato Kremmyda, produced at Montclair State University in April 2009. Her work has been featured at The York Theatre Company’s NEO Cabaret (with composer Daniel Maté), Joe’s Pub, Barrington Stage, Laurie Beechman Theater, Prospect Theater Company (with Julia Meinwald), Goodspeed Musicals, The Darlinghurst Theatre, and New York Theatre Barn. Current projects include rainsong, a dance theatre piece with composer Erato Kremmyda and choreographer Clare Cook; an adaptation of Ludwig Tieck’s Der Blonde Eckbert; and a full-length musical inspired by poems from Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Images. A graduate of Ithaca College and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program, she also trained at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
ANNA K. JACOBS (Music) is a composer-lyricist from Sydney, Australia. Her other credits include Stella and the Moon Man (Sydney Theatre Company/ Theatre of Image/ Australian Youth Orchestra, 2005), which won a Helpmann Award, and Stepmommy Dearest, a song cycle written with Maggie-Kate Coleman. Her music and lyrics have been featured at Joe's Pub, The York Theatre, Theatre Row, NYTB at the Duplex, Barrington Stage, Goodspeed, Don't Tell Mama, The Darlinghurst Theatre, and the Art Gallery of NSW. Current projects include music for Harmony, Kansas, about a gay men’s chorus in rural Kansas, and lyrics for Shooting from the Hip, a song cycle commissioned to open the 2010 Sydney Festival. She is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and the University of Sydney, and also studied composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
MARK BROKAW (Director) Broadway credits include the new musical Cry-Baby, the revivals of The Constant Wife and Reckless, and upcoming After Miss Julie. New York premieres include works by Paula Vogel (her Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive), Kenneth Lonergan, Craig Lucas, Eric Bogosian, Douglas Carter Beane, Wendy Wasserstein, Lisa Kron, and Lynda Barry. For Encores! Great American Musicals at City Center, he directed the concert versions of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Cole Porter’s Out of This World. His regional credits include the Sondheim Celebration at The Kennedy Center (A Little Night Music), the new musical Marty starring John C. Reilly at the Huntington Theatre, as well as productions at the Guthrie Theater, Center Theatre Group, Steppenwolf, Seattle Rep, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Sundance Institute, O’Neill Music Theatre Conference, and New York Stage & Film. His work has been seen internationally at London’s Donmar Warehouse and Dublin’s Gate Theatre. A graduate of Yale School of Drama, he has served as vice president of the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is an associate artist of the Roundabout Theatre.
