HIPPODROME 1995-96 SEASON
Upcoming1996-97 Season
THE SEASON
The Sisters Rosensweig
By Wendy Wasserstein
SEPT. 8-OCT 8.
Winner of the 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway
Play. The author of The Heidi Chronicles is back with a witty and moving
play about three quirky New York sisters.
Lonely Planet
By Steven Dietz
OCT. 20- NOV 12.
A compassionate Off-Broadway comedy that has been described
as an existential meditation on friendship, human isolation and connection.
[GAINESVILLE SUN REVIEW]
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
NOV. 24-DEC 23.
(Family Performance Series)
The charming classic about Scrooge, the Cratchits and the Ghosts.
An 18-year Hippodrome tradition.
All in the Timing
By David Ives
JAN 5-28.
Six hysterically funny one-act plays by New York's hottest new
playwright.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Adapted by Christopher Sergel
FEB 16-MAR 10.
A stage adaptation of the celebrated novel about a small-town
southern lawyer and his imaginative children who get caught up in the hysteria
of a highly-charged trial.
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
By Neil Simon
APR 12-MAY 19.
A "screamingly funny" Broadway hit about a brilliant team of
social misfits writing a weekly variety show during TV's Golden Age.
Jelly Roll!
The Music and the Man
By Vernel Bagneris
JUNE 7-30
Jelly Roll! The Music and the Man is a dazzling show
about the life of Jelly Roll Morton, the infinitely complex, gifted, foolish,
superstitious, enchanting and self-styled inventor of jazz. Morton (Ferdinand
Joseph Le Menthe Morton) was the black sheep of a Louisiana Creole family
and the composer of some of the sweetest, saltiest, and most wistful jazz
ever composed. Jelly Roll! The Music and the Man zeroes in on the
essence of Morton’s arts, on his music and on his life. Referred to as
the “Chopin of Jazz” or the “Mozart of the Bordellos,” Morton’s life was
anything but dull. The show features the funny, pitiful and glorious tale
of Morton’s rise and fall story, his marvelous music, and hypnotic choreography.
We follow his life from his respectable Creole background to becoming a
pianist in a Storyville whorehouse to his celebrity as the creator of jazz
to his demise in tinseltown.
