Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Stephen Schwartz, Jack Feldman, David Zippel
Presented by special arrangment with Walt Disney Music
Directed By | Kate Kenyon and Amanda Morando |
Musical Direction by | Amanda Morando |
Choreography by | Kate Kenyon |
Lighting Design by | Brigid Tillotson |
Sound Design by | Eric White |
Showtimes
(all performances of A WHOLE NEW WORLD are at
San Marin High School, Novato CA)
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Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
No
Performance
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July 15
7pm
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July 16
7pm
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(There is no performance on July 17)
Marin Summer Theater is very pleased to present the world premiere of a new musical review, A WHOLE NEW WORLD: The Magic of Alan Menken.
MST has received special permission from Walt Disney Music to present a musical review of Mr. Menken's best work. In a career spanning over four decades, Alan Menken has written the music monster hit musicals and films like Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Newsies, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Enchanted, Sister Act, Tangled and Leap of Faith. Mr. Menken has won eight Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, eleven Grammies, a Tony and a Drama Desk Award.
Returning to direct A WHOLE NEW WORLD are be Kate Kenyon and Amanda Morando, the dynamic team that directed the 2015 MST production of Defying Gravity.
The cast for A WHOLE NEW WORLD includes students from MST's 2016 Musical Theater Madness Workshop and MST company special guests.
Production and publicity photographs from the 2016 producton of A WHOLE NEW WORLD by Jim Gratiot and Marina Nims.
Can you name the composer of LITTLE MERMAID, ALADDIN, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, NEWIES, HERCULES, POCAHANTAS, ENCHANTED and TANGLED? Alan Menken of course! On July 15 & 16 Marin Summer Theater will present the original musical revue A WHOLE NEW WORLD: The Magic of Alan Menken at the Emily Gates Student Center at San Marin High School in Novato. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.marinsummertheater.org or at the door.
Presented with special permisson from Walt Disney Music, A WHOLE NEW WORLD: The Magic of Alan Menken, is a lively, family friendly musical revue featuring the best loved songs from Alan Menken’s catalog including A Whole New World, Be Our Guest, Belle Carrying the Banner, Colors of the Wind, Gaston, Go the Distance, Kiss the Girl, Santa Fe, Seize the Day, Under the Sea, When Will My Life Begin, Zero to Hero and many more.
Alan Menken has collaborated with such lyricists as Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Glenn Slater, Stephen Schwartz and David Zippel to create the soundtrack of the Disney Renascence, staring with LITTLE MERMAID in 1989. With eight Academy Award wins (four each for Best Score and Best Original Song), Menken is the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories and also won eleven Grammy Awards, a Tony Award and other honors.