Stage Notes: Uptown Players announces new season; Moody Fund grants $450K to arts groups
FILE – In this July 2018 file photo, The Go-Go’s band members, from left, Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin perform at the curtain call for the Broadway musical “Head Over Heels.” The show was announced as part of Uptown Players new season. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) Stage Notes is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music and stage news, events, reviews and other pertinent information. Season announcements Uptown Players announce its 2022-23 season Uptown Players has dropped the deets on its 2022-2023 season.
The season will feature a world premiere by the writing team of The Golden Girls, a few regional premieres, a co-production with Stage West and an all-new Broadway Our Way.
Here is the season overview from Uptown: Dec. 2-18: Head Over Heels. Uptown Players will open its season with the regional premiere of the bold new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Avenue Q.
This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, including the hit songs, “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Mad About You.” Previously planned for the 2020 season, this production will now kick off the 2022-2023 season at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.
