Presenting WVLO's 59th Season!
LEGALLY BLONDE
November 9, 2024 through December 7, 2024Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Neil Benjamin Book by Heather Hach
Opening our season is a Saratoga Premiere, a fun and upbeat musical based on the novel “Legally Blonde” by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend, Warner, and discovers how her knowledge of law can help others. The score includes “Omigod You Guys”, “What You Want”, “Positive”, “Delta Nu Nu Nu”, “Find My Way” and the title song.
PIPPIN
March 15, 2024 through April 5, 2024Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Roger O. Hirson
The Stephen Schwartz coming-of-age musical that helped put Bob Fosse on the map. Heir to the Frankish throne, the young Prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield and the intrigues of political power (after disposing of his father King Charlemagne the Great). In the end though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day. The score includes Magic to Do, Corner of the Sky, Not Time at All, Spread a Little Sunshine and Morning Glow.
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
June 28 through July 26 2025Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar
This musical is a modern, original musical within a comedy which, pays tribute to the Jazz-age shows of the 1920’s. Based on the tale of a pampered Broadway starlet who wants to give up show business to get married, her producer sets out to sabotage the nuptials, her chaperone, the debonair groom, the dizzy chorine, the Latin lover and a couple of gangsters. Songs in the score include “Fancy Dress”, “As We Stumble Along”, “Message From a Nightingale”, “Love is Always Love” and “I Do I Do In the Sky”.