Pasadena Playhouse’s New Season Includes Six-Month Sondheim Celebration
variety.comJenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorThe Pasadena Playhouse has announced its lineup for the 2022-23 season, including a six-month Sondheim Celebration that will kick off in January 2023.
The celebration is dubbed to be the most ambitious in the theater’s history and will include not only productions of “Sunday in the Park with George,” “A Little Night Music” and “Into the Woods,” but a two-night concert from Sondheim’s muse Bernadette Peters.Says artistic director Danny Feldman, “In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, we began planning one of the most ambitious artistic ventures in our history: A Celebration of Stephen Sondheim.
With the authors’ blessings, we began planning a major event that would delight Sondheim lovers, as well as provide an opportunity for those who had not yet experienced his work.
With his recent passing, our hope is that the Celebration will also provide a space for audiences to sit side by side and memorialize the artist whose work they love so much.” The production of “Into the Woods” will mark a partnership between the Playhouse and the Pasadena Unified School District, in which high school students will participate in creating the production.
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