LA MIRADA THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS &
McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT INVITES YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TO
OUR SEASON'S MOST COLORFUL SHOW...
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Text by Tim Rice
Musical director and conductor: Jennifer Lynn
Director and Choreographer: Gerry McIntyre
"I GO! I GO! I GO!" LA MIRADA THEATER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
START FRIDAY JUNE 2, 2023!
LA MIRADA THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT invites you and your family to 'Go! I'm leaving! I'm Going!" to the Tony Award-winning musical sensation, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Musical director and conductor is Jennifer Lin, and director and choreographer is Gerry McIntyre. JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT runs Friday, June 2 at 8:00 PM and Saturday, June 3 at 2:00 PM (with press opening Saturday, June 3 at 8:00 PM Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd in La Mirada .
One of the most enduring shows of all time, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT is a spontaneous reenactment of the biblical story of Joseph, father of Jacob, his 11 brothers and his coat of many colors. This moving musical features Andrew Lloyd Webbersongs that have become pop and musical theater classics, including “Any Dream Will Do,” “Close Every Door To Me,” “There's One More Angel in Heaven” and “Go, Go, Go Joseph. " The award-winning show has been performed in more than 80 countries around the world and has become one of the world's best-loved family musicals.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
GERRY McINTYRE (Director and Choreographer) won widespread acclaim for his latest choreographic achievement: Berkshire Theater Group's production of Godspell - sold out, twice extended, to rave reviews. He recently became Associate Artistic Director of The York Theatre. He made his directorial debut at The York with the 2018 Musicals in Mufti presentation of Hallelujah, Baby. Additional productions as director: Kinky Boots (The Hangar Theatre), Soon of a Mornin' (Lions Theatre), Once On This Island (Martin Beck Theatre, Virginia Stage, Pioneer Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, La Mirada Theater - Robbie Award Best Director, Ovation nominations for Best Choreography and Best Musical), Ain't Misbehavin' (Actors' Theater of Louisville; Gateway Playhouse; and Theater by The Sea), The Cher Show, Jersey Boys and Chicago (Ogunquit Playhouse), Joseph and the Sea Fantastic Technicolor Dreamcoat with Diana DeGarmo and Anthony Federov (Lyric Theatre) and the National Tour ofDreamgirls. As a choreographer: Anything Can Happen in Theater and Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation (The York Theatre), Nina Simone: Four Women, Songs for a New World, A Chorus Line, White Christmas, Side by Side, The Who's Tommy and My Fair Lady (Berkshire Theater Festival), A Saint She Ain't (Westport Playhouse), The Color Purple, Cinderella, Ragtime and The Wiz (Broadway Sacramento), Priscilla (Gateway Playhouse), "After the Storm". Gerry is the choreographer of the Off-Broadway hit Spamilton (Ovation nomination and Joe A. Callaway Award nomination). As a performer: the original company of Once on This Island, Anything Goes with Patti Lupone, and one of three American actors in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond.
JENNIFER LIN (Music Director and Conductor) works as a music director, accompanist and teacher throughout Southern California and is the resident music director for the Color and Light Theater Ensemble. Recent productions include On This Side of the World (East West Players), Brigadoon (Musical Theater Guild), Spring Awakening (USC School of Dramatic Arts), Matilda (both at 5-Star Theatricals and La Mirada Theater with McCoy Rigby Entertainment), The Last Five Years (After Hours Theater - Ovation Nominated for Musical Direction), XY (NAMT Festival of New Musicals), LIZZIE (both at Cal State Fullerton and Color and Light Theater Ensemble), and Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Celebration Theater – Ovation Nominee for Musical Direction, Ovation Winner for Best Intimate Theatre).
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Music) is the composer of some of the world's most famous musicals, including CATS, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard. When Sunset Boulevard joined
School of Rock - The Musical, CATS and The Phantom of the Operaon Broadway in February 2017 became the only person to break the record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four shows running simultaneously. In addition to The Phantom of The OperaandCATS, his productions include the seminal Bombay Dreams, which introduced two-time Oscar-winning Bollywood composer AR Rahman to the Western stage. As a composer and producer, Lloyd Webber is one of an elite group of artists to achieve EGOT status, receiving an Emmy, four Grammy Awards including Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem, his framework for Latin Requiem, an Academy Award and eight Tony Awards. including the 2018 Special Tony for a lifetime achievement in the theater. He has won seven Oliviers and a Golden Globe, and his honors include the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, a BASCA Fellowship and the Kennedy Center Honor. He was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997. To mark his 70th birthday, his best-selling autobiography Unmasked was published by HarperCollins in March 2018.
TIM RICE (Lyrics) has been working in music, theater and film since 1965 when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, another struggling songwriter. Their first collaboration was a failed play based on Dr. Barnardo, the Victorian Philanthropist, The Likes of Us. Their next three projects together were much more successful: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. Tim Rice has since collaborated with other distinguished popular composers such as Elton John (The Lion King, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast), Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess) and more recently Stuart. Brayson (From Here to Eternity). A new production of From Here to Eternity debuted at New York's Finger Lakes Musical Theater in June 2016 and played fall 2017 at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. In December 2016, selections from the score were performed at three official events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Additional American productions are in the works.
March 2017 saw the release of two films featuring new Tim Rice material: Disney's fresh take on Beauty and the Beast, with three new songs written with Alan Menken, and Roger Goldby's latest film, Time of Their Lives, starring Joan Collins and Pauline Collins . includes "Morty and Me", a song written with Pete Hobbs, sung by Sophie Ellis-Bextor. He formed his own cricket team in 1973 and was president of the MCC in 2002. He is a regular broadcaster/presenter on BBC Radio 2 and draws on his extensive knowledge of popular music history since Elvis was a boy. In 2018, he became one of only 15 people to achieve EGOT status when NBC's production of "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert" won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special.
The design team for JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT is as follows: Set designs and props provided by 3-D Theatricals. Lighting design by Jean-Yves Tessier; Sound design by Josh Bessom. Costumes by Ryan Moller provided by Tuacahn Costume Rentals. Costume Coordinator, Adam Ramirez; Co-Hair/Hair/Make-up Design by Kaitlin Yagen and Madison Medrano. Property Supervisor Kevin Williams. Casting director is Julia Flores. Production Stage Manager is John W. Calder III.
Casting for JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT will be announced soon.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND PRICE
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT will preview on Friday, June 2 at 8 p.m. & Saturday 3 June at 2 p.m. (with press opening Saturday, June 3 at 8:00 p.m. Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd in La Mirada.
Performances are Thursdays at 19.30. Friday at 8 p.m. Saturdays at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. and Sundays 1:30 p.m. & 18:30 There is no performance on Sunday 4 June at
6:30
On Saturday 17 June at 14.00 there is an Open-Captioned performance. Conversations with the cast and creative team will take place on Thursday 8 June at 7.30pm. and Thursday, June 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets range from $19 - $89 (prices subject to change) and can be purchased from the La Mirada Theater websitewww.LaMiradaTheatre.comor by calling the La Mirada Theater Fund at (562) 944-9801 or (714) 994-6310. Group and military discounts available. $14 student tickets available. Children under the age of 3 are not allowed in the theatre.
LA MIRADA THEATER FOR THE Performing Arts is located at 14900 La Mirada Avenue in La Mirada, near the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue where the 91 and 5 freeways meet. Parking is free.
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LA MIRADA THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS COVID PROTOCOLS
La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts continues to follow county and state public health guidelines and will follow the protocols in place at the time of the performance.
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Contact David Elzer/DEMAND PR at (818) 508-1754 or by email to schedule press interviews, photos, comps or for additional information.davidelzer@me.com. Photos and press information are also available at lamiradtheatre.com.
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The Tony-nominated LA MIRADA THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the finest Broadway-style houses in Southern California." This beautiful state-of-the-art theater has presented quality productions since 1977. The theater has toured many nationally and received many accolades, including Tony, Emmy and Ovation Award nominations and L.A.'s OVATION Award. Scene Alliance for "Best Season of the Year." The theater is located at 14900 La Mirada Avenue in La Mirada, California, near the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue. Parking is adjacent to the theater and is free. For more information call (562) 944-9801 or visit
www.LaMiradaTheatre.com.
Celebrating its 29th anniversary season at La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts, McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT (MRE) is one of the premier theater production companies in the world and continues to be grateful to share a wildly successful partnership with the City of La Mirada. Led by Executive Producers Tom McCoy and Cathy Rigby, MRE has produced over one hundred musicals, plays and concerts featuring some of the biggest stars in the business today, garnering numerous Emmy Awards, Tony nominations and LA Ovation Awards.
In addition, MRE has produced several Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated Broadway, international and national touring productions such as: ASIA- Dreamgirls (Japan), Miss Saigon (China), Peter Pan (China), SAUDI ARABIA - Peter Pan (this was the first ever Broadway Musical to play in Saudi Arabia), USA-Seussical the Musical and Annie Get Your Gun, starring Cathy Rigby. Jesus Christ Superstar starring Carl Anderson and Sebastian Bach, Camelot starring Michael York and Lou Diamond Phillips, Happy Days written by Gary Marshall and Paul Williams, BROADWAY's Jekyll and Hyde starring Grammy Award nominee Deborah Cox and "American Idol" and Tony Award, and The Little Mermaid, The Musical. PeterPan, starring Cathy Rigby, made four stops on Broadway and received four Tony Award nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical. The premiere of A&E's "Peter Pan" received an Emmy Award and four Emmy Award nominations. La Mirada Theatre's productions of A Night with Janis Joplin starring Mary Bridget Davies and Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby are now streaming on Broadway HD.
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JOSEPH AND THE WONDERFUL
TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Text by Tim Rice
Musical director and conductor: Jennifer Lynn
Director and Choreographer: Gerry McIntyre
OPEN: Saturday 3 June at 8 p.m
and runs through Sunday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m
SUPPLY: Friday, June 2 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, June 3 at 2 p.m
PERFORMANCES: Thursday at 19.30. Friday at 8 p.m.
Saturdays at 2 p.m. & 20.00 Sunday at 13:30 & 18:30.
There is no performance on Sunday 4 June at 18.30.
On Saturday 17 June at 14.00 there is an Open-Captioned performance.
Conversations with the cast and creative team will continue
Thursday 8 June at 19.30 and Thursday 22 June at 19.30.
LA MIRADA THEATER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
14900 La Mirada Blvd. and La Mirada, CA 90638.
Get there early to get the best parking - it's free!
Tickets range from $19 - $89 (Prices are subject to change).
$14 student tickets available.
Children under the age of 3 are not allowed in the theatre.
For tickets, call (562) 944-9801 or (714) 994-6310 or purchase online at LaMiradaTheatre.com. Group and military discounts available.