Download 12/04/2006 - Theatreworks USA!

Music and Lyrics by
based on the
Carol Hall
Book by Glen Berger
Max and Ruby characters by Rosemary Wells
Big sisters have big responsibilities, especially when the little brother is a big trouble-maker!
Join in the fun as TheatreworksUSA presents a charming new musical full of fun and sibling
revelry… Max and Ruby!
Ruby, a seven-year-old rabbit, loves her Grandma very much and wants to do something
special for her. She gets the brilliant idea to put on a show, with music and costumes and a
castle and everything! She’ll need some help, though, so she tries to enlist her little brother
Max. Ruby wants to put on a play about a princess, but Max is already playing a cowboy.
Ruby wants to work quietly, but Max is enjoying his noisy toys. Ruby wants to look for costumes, but Max is too busy looking for frogs!
Max is no help at all, so Ruby recruits her Bunny Scout friends for assistance. But can they
help her finish Grandma’s play in time? Find out in this delightful musical based on the toprated Nickelodeon television show inspired by Rosemary Wells’
bunny siblings, Max and Ruby!
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CAROL HALL (Music, Lyrics)
Carol Hall’s songs have been performed by, among others, Barbra Streisand, Tony
Bennett, Barbara Cook, Dolly Parton, Michael Feinstein, Mabel Mercer, Mark Murphy, Maureen McGovern, Margaret
Whiting, Marlo Thomas, Harry Belafonte, Frederica von Stade, and Big Bird. Ms. Hall also enjoys collaborating with
other writers, and has contributed either music or lyrics to songs written with Bill Evans, Lesley Gore, Michelle Brourman,
Shelly Markham, Tex Arnold, Robert Burke, Jeffrey Klitz and Steven Lutvak. Hall received two Drama Desk Awards for
her music and lyrics to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. This theatre classic delighted audiences for almost five
years on Broadway, received a Grammy nomination for its cast album, and became a film starring Burt Reynolds and
Dolly Parton. Parton’s recording of Hall’s song “Hard Candy Christmas” won an ASCAP Award for being one of its
Most Performed Country Songs. A successful revival and national tour of the show recently played across the country
for a year and a half, starring Ann-Margret. Other stage work includes Good Sports (Goodspeed Theatre), Paper
Moon (Paper Mill Theatre), Are We There Yet? (Williamstown Theatre Festival), the Off- Broadway musical To Whom It
May Concern and contributions to A... My Name Is Alice and A... My Name Is Still Alice. Hall was a major
composer/lyricist to Marlo Thomas’ Peabody and Emmy Award winning TV Special and gold album “Free to Be... You
and Me,” and acted as contributing editor/songwriter to its sequel, “Free to Be... a Family.” She created songs for
Disney’s Dumbo II, won the 2003 MAC Song of the Year Award (Manhattan Association of Cabarets) for “I Dream In
Technicolor,” and also contributed to Marlo Thomas’ recently released book and CD, Thanks & Giving/All Year Long.
She has received two Backstage “Bistro” Awards, MAC awards and the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award, given for
her contribution to American popular song. For ten years Hall was a mainstay contributor to “Sesame Street,” writing,
among other things, the popular title song “True Blue Miracle: Christmas Eve on Sesame Street” (Emmy Award), and
“Big Bird’s Birthday Bash.” Her non-musical writing includes The Days Are as Grass, an evening of one-act plays, which
recently premiered at the Woodstock Fringe Festival. She has been a teacher at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center,
The Sundance Theatre Institute, and the Cabaret Conference at Yale University, as well as being a guest participant in
the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop. She is presently on the Dramatists Guild Council and the Board of The League
of Professional Theatre Women and has in the past served on the Boards of The American Place Theatre and the
Young Playwrights’ Festival, as well as the Tony Nominating Committee. Ms. Hall is married to Media Producer Leonard
Majzlin and is the mother of songwriter Susannah Blinkoff and actor Daniel Blinkoff.
GLEN BERGER (Book) Glen’s Great Men of Science, NOS. 21 & 22 won the 1998 Ovation Award for Best Play, as well
as the A.S.K. Playwriting Award. His Underneath the Lintel ran Off-Broadway for over 15 months, and the Los Angeles
production won the Ovation Award for Best Play. His O Lovely Glowworm won the 2005 Portland Drammy Award for
Best Script. He was a recipient of a Children’s Theater Company/New Dramatists “Playground” commission, as well as
a Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation Grant, with which he wrote the musical, On Words and Onwards (workshopped at the 2001 A.S.K. Theater Projects Writers Retreat). Mr. Berger has also written the book and lyrics to A Night
in the Old Marketplace, a musical that received a National Foundation for Jewish Culture grant and the 2004
Frederick Loewe Award. He was nominated for three Emmys for his work on the PBS children’s series, “Arthur” and
“Postcards from Buster.” He has also written episodes of WGBH’s “Time Warp Trio” and “Peep,” and is the head writer
for “Fetch,” which will debut on PBS in June, 2006.
THEATREWORKS/USA is one of America’s largest not-for-profit professional theatres for young and family audiences, having brought our plays and musicals to over 80 million people since our inception. TheatreworksUSA has the
distinction of being the only children’s theatre company to have won both a Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award.
Theatreworks is also the recipient of the William M. Dawson Award for Programmatic Excellence, from the Association
of Performing Arts Presenters. Most recently the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award was presented
to Theatreworks for its “artistic vision and commitment to the support and development of theatre artists.”
151 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 647-1100
www.TWUSA.org