Lincoln Center Theater has today announced its reopening dates following the shutdown, marking the beginning of its 2021-2022 season. 

New musical Flying Over Sunset begins previews in the Vivian Beaumont Theater on 4 November 2021, with an official opening on 6 December.

Set in the 1950’s, Flying Over Sunset is inspired by the lives of three extraordinary and accomplished people - writer Aldous Huxley (Harry Hadden-Paton); playwright, diplomat, and congresswoman, Clare Boothe Luce (Carmen Cusack) and film legend Cary Grant (Tony Yazbeck) - each of whom in real life experimented with the drug LSD.  At a crossroads in their lives the three come together, and under the influence of the drug, take a trip and confront the mysteries of their lives and their world. 

Flying Over Sunset has a book and direction by James Lapine, with music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Michael Korie, choreography by Michelle Dorrance, set design by Beowulf Boritt, costumes by Toni-Leslie James, lighting by Bradley King, sound by Dan Moses Schreier, orchestrations by Michael Starobin, and musical direction by Kimberly Grigsby.  

New opera Intimate Apparel begins performances on 13 January 2022, with its opening night on 27 January in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

Set in turn of the century New York, Intimate Apparel tells the story of Esther (Kearstin Piper Brown/Chabrelle Williams), a lonely, single African-American woman who makes her living sewing beautiful corsets and ladies’ undergarments.  Seeking love and romance, Esther embarks on a letter writing relationship with a mysterious suitor labouring on the Panama Canal and comes to realise that only her self-reliance and certainty of her own worth will see her through life’s challenges. 

With music by Ricky Ian Gordon and a libretto by Lynn Nottage based on her play, the piece is directed by Bartlett Sher, with set design by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Jennifer Tipton, sound by Marc Salzberg, musical direction by Steven Osgood and choreography by Dianne McIntyre. 

Artistic Director of LCT, Andre Bishop, said: “Ecstatic excitement barely begins to describe the feelings we have about reopening. LCT will be BACK with two wildly different musical works whose lives were cut short well over a year ago.  Like all the other theaters that are reopening in New York and all over the country, we rejoice and we are grateful.  And boy, do we look forward to seeing our audiences again!  It will be a happy time.”

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