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Musicals & Operas


Legacy Boy

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Legacy Boy updates the Don Juan legend to a college campus today. Set to the pulse of indie rock, this musical follows the exploits of Donny Johns, a legacy-student hipster, and the three women he takes advantage of, to look at male privilege and power.  
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The Scarlet Professor

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The Scarlet Professor
is based on the true story of Newton Arvin, a renowned literary critic and English professor at Smith College who — with two of his colleagues — found themselves the victims of a national anti-gay crusade initiated by U.S. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. 
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The Garden of Martyrs

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An American Prize Finalist, this opera is adapted from Michael C. White’s historical novel.  It follows the story of Dominic Daley and James Halligan, hanged in 1805 on suspicion of murder. Over 200 years later, the case remains one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in early America. 
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  • Home
  • Translations & Adaptations
    • Wild Thing
    • Jealous of Herself
    • Suitors
    • Marta the Divine
  • Musicals & Operas
    • Legacy Boy
    • The Scarlet Professor
    • The Garden of Martyrs
  • Plays
    • Nobody's Girl
    • The Restoration Room
    • Crowsnest
  • Books
    • The Mountain Girl from La Vera
    • Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain
    • Jealous of Herself
    • Remaking the Comedia
    • Marta the Divine
    • Staging the Jew
  • Contact