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Opening Night: The Musical of Musicals @ Theater Lab

Can't decide on plans for tonight? Well bring your indecisivness to the ultimate variety of muscial theater, for tonight's opening of Theater Lab Houston's The Musical of Musicals - The Musical!

"A hilarious satire of musical theatre". One story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers & Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim.

The Basic Plot:
June is an ingénue who can't pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue?

The Variations:
>>a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, set in Kansas in August, complete with a dream ballet

>>a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work

>>a Jerry Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle

>>an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from Puccini

>>a Kander & Ebb version, set in speakeasy Chicago

Dates | Opening Night, Wednesday, May 2, @ 8pm
Fridays & Saturdays through June 9th at 8pm | Sunday, June 3rd at 5:00pm

Tickets | Fridays & Sunday matinee - $20.00; Saturdays - $25.00
Available by Credit Card through the TLH Box Office (713) 868-7516 or tlhbox@att.net

Theater Lab Houston | Theater Lab presents the best in contemporary theater in the Off-Broadway genre, from nationally and internationally renowned playwrights; dramas and comedies that will take you on an adventure while exploring the human condition and the issues of our time. Theater Lab is located at 1706 Alamo St.