The Glorious Ones

The Glorious Ones
Music	Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics	Lynn Ahrens
Book	Lynn Ahrens
Basis	Novel by Francine Prose
Productions	2007 Pittsburgh 2007 Off-Broadway

The Glorious Ones is a musical with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Set in 17th-century Italy, it concerns a theatre group in the world of commedia dell'arte and theatre of the Italian Renaissance.

After premiering in Pittsburgh in April 2007, the musical opened Off-Broadway in October 2007.

The musical premiered April 27, 2007, at the Pittsburgh Public Theater and closed on May 20, 2007.

It then opened Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, as a production of the Lincoln Center Theater on October 11, 2007 and ran through January 6, 2008. Directed and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, the New York cast featured Marc Kudisch, Erin Davie, Natalie Venetia Belcon, and David Patrick Kelly.

The musical was presented at the Landor Theatre, London, from 6 March to 7 April 2012, with direction by Robert McWhir.

The Canadian premiere of The Glorious Ones took place in May 2014, presented by the Toronto Civic Light Opera Company, starring Joe Cascone (Flaminio), Joanne Kennedy (Columbina), David Haines (Dottore), Eric Botosan (Pantalone), Elizabeth Rose Morriss (Isabella), Jordan Quinn (Francesco) and Susan Sanders (Armanda).

Charles Isherwood, in his review in The New York Times of the Off-Broadway production, wrote: "With buoyant music by Stephen Flaherty and a bawdy book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, the show mixes the lowdown pratfalls of commedia dell’arte with the rosy sentimentality of classic American musical comedy...The resulting musical is a sweet but strange hybrid, both joyfully naughty and totally innocuous."

...
Wikipedia