Musical Mondays
Affirming the future
of the American Musical
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musical mondays theatre lab
bick goss and frank evans, producing artistic directors
marter productions and anne l bernstein, consulting producers
Musical Mondays on Thursdays
Bick Goss
Artistic Director |
Frank Evans
Producing Director
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Stephen Hanks
Board President
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NEW YORK STAGE DIRECTOR BICK GOSS
In Bick Goss's 40 years in the
theatre, he's worked
with Carol
Burnett, Gene Kelly, Billy Crystal,
Harold Prince, Bob Fosse and
Gwen Verdon. Miss Verdon he
considers the most interesting
talent he ever met. "We became
friends and worked together on
three or 4 shows, and to watch
her in rehearsal and on stage
was electrifying,".
"Gwen Verdon knew what to do with the character, she knew what to do
with her body, and she knew what to do with her emotions. She made good choices.
She was, I think, one of the most undervalued performers America ever had.
Her stage career was great, but she waited until late in life to start doing
film and television, and if she'd started earlier she'd be even better remembered
today."
Primarily a director but also a choreographer, Bick has worked extensively
in New York City, where he has lived since the early 'sixties, but in
the San Francisco Bay Area, he won the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his direction and
choreography of the TheatreWorks' production of The World Goes 'Round. He won
the same award for his San Jose Repertory production of Cole!, a musical
that went on to have an 18 month run in San Francisco.
While Bick considers COLE! to be one of the greatest triumphs of his career, one of his primary interests is developing new musicals, and to
that end he directs the "Musical Mondays" ongoing series of Monday evening workshop performances of new musical plays.
"I'm very concerned about the state of musical theatre today," he
says. "It's turning into opera - too many revivals."
Though most well known as a musical theatre specialist, Bick has directed numerous nonmusicals, including the recent New York production of
Roman Nights, a play about the friendship of Tennessee Williams and Anna Magnani.
(excerpted from TRFT NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE http://www.tvradiofilmtheatre.com/tour33.html)
Other credits include:
Side Show
Sweet and Hot, a Harold Arlen review
Jerry Orbach Theater, Snapple Theater Center, 6:30PM
210 West 50th, just west of Broadway
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