But I'll add partial points for Ghost Quartet (in that the Fall Of The House of Usher is in MA and portions of Ghost Quartet are adapted from it), and partial points for the first act of Moby Dick. @dave_malloy bringing it with the MA musicals.
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I remembered what I was missing! "Curtains", that David Hyde Pierce won a Tony for, is set in Boston. It takes place at the Colonial, and there's a song about bad theater reviews in several Boston newspapers.
1776 takes place in Philadelphia, although Massachusetts is mentioned a lot. There’s the Lizzie Borden sequence from “New Faces of 1952”. I feel like I’m missing something super obvious...
1776 takes place in Philadelphia, although Massachusetts is mentioned a lot. There’s the Lizzie Borden sequence from “New Faces of 1952”. I feel like I’m missing something super obvious...
Now that its morning and i had a chance to ask the people in the house that saw the show: You can add Moby Dick to the musicals that take place at least partially in Massachusetts
1776 is mostly Philadelphia, though one of the devices is the correspondence dialogue of John and Abigail Adams, and she was home in MA for most of it, so yeah sort'a could stretch it to say "set in MA"
Was lucky enough to see the "Moby Dick" musical during its brief run at the A.R.T. this winter. I really hope it has a life beyond Cambridge. Even as a work-in-progress it was unique, ambitious, and unforgettable.
From "Elegies" (which isn't really set anywhere and is technically a "song cycle" not a musical) there is a song called "14 Dwight Ave., Natick, Massachusetts."
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1776 is mostly Philadelphia,
1776 is mostly Philadelphia, though one of the devices is the correspondence dialogue of John and Abigail Adams, and she was home in MA for most of it, so yeah sort'a could stretch it to say "set in MA"
Shear Madness
Though it's not a musical.
Re: Moby
Was lucky enough to see the "Moby Dick" musical during its brief run at the A.R.T. this winter. I really hope it has a life beyond Cambridge. Even as a work-in-progress it was unique, ambitious, and unforgettable.
No No Nanette didn't do well
No No Nanette didn't do well until the revival, but The Harry Frazee Follies ran for years.
More seriously - didn't
More seriously - didn't somebody write a play about Honey Fitz?
very specific song
From "Elegies" (which isn't really set anywhere and is technically a "song cycle" not a musical) there is a song called "14 Dwight Ave., Natick, Massachusetts."
Factory Girls
By Sean Mahoney and Creighton Irons
McBeth
Boston and Providence based adaptation of some obscure old play.
Staged by Acme Theatr Company in 1996.