Our 2019-2020 Season

IT’S OUR 15TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON...and it’s all about LOVE!

We are thrilled to be producing three exciting, romantic, and heart-filled shows! From a tale of heartbreak and struggle in New York City (Rent), to a toe-tapping, small town romance in Rivercity, Iowa (The Music Man), to a sultry and irreverent romp in the Swedish countryside at the turn of the 20th century (A Little Night Music), our 2019-20 season celebrates love in many forms and and offers something for audiences of all ages.

The young artists we are privileged to mentor are at the heart of our mission and we can’t wait to dive into these stories with them, and bring them to you-- our community. Now, more than ever, YMTC is committed to providing an artistic home in which young artists can co-create exceptional musical theater under the mentorship of theater professionals. Whether our students are performers or aspiring directors, choreographers, designers or theater technicians, YMTC supports their aspirations. And you, the audience, are the final ingredient in the alchemy of live theater that makes all our work worthwhile.

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We look forward to seeing you at the theater!

Jennifer Boesing, Producing Artistic Director
David Möschler, Resident Music Director

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Rent

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book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson

Musical Arrangements: Steve Skinner
Original Concept/Additional Lyrics: Billy Aronson
Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements: Tim Weil
Dramaturg: Lynn Thomson

RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon and the New York Theatre Workshop

RENT is presented through special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI).

Sunday, November 3, 2019, 5pm Opening Night!
Thursday, November 7, 2019, 7:30pm
Friday, November 8, 2019, 7:30pm
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 2:00pm
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 7:30pm
Sunday, November 10, 2019, 2:00pm

Rent is a rock opera loosely based on Puccini’s La Boheme. Set in Lower Manhattan’s East Village, this moving story chronicles the lives of a group of artists over the course of a year in the midst of the turmoil of the AIDS crisis in New York. It’s about community, survival and friendship. Recipient (1996) of 4 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, 6 Drama Desk Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.

The Music Man

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3/12/20: ANNOUNCEMENT

ALL REMAINING PERFORMANCES OF THE MUSIC MAN (March 13-15) HAVE BEEN CANCELLED, due to school district emergency measures related to COVID-19.  If you were planning to attend, please consider donating the cost of your ticket: https://bit.ly/3aMFeN5

book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson
story by Meredith Willson & Franklin Lacey
Orchestrations by Don Walker

Romantic, sparkling, and toe-tapping, The Music Man is the story of Harold Hill, who uses his wit, charm, and intellect to con small towns by posing as a music teacher selling instruments to organize boy’s bands. However, when he gets to River City, Iowa there is one person he can’t fool -- the discerning and sharp librarian and piano teacher--Marion, and a classic love-at-first-fight story ensues. Winner of 6 Tony Awards, family-friendly and consistently entertaining generations of audiences since 1957, The Music Man will feature a full, live 26 piece orchestra.

"YMTC’s ‘The Music Man’ comes with a message (maybe)"
--Berkeleyside, March 4, 2020

Saturday, March 7, 2020, 7:30pm
Sunday, March 8, 2020, 2:00pm
Friday, March 13, 7:30pm
Saturday, March 14, 2:00pm
Saturday, March 14, 7:30pm
Sunday, March 15, 2:00pm

THE MUSIC MAN is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI)

THE MUSIC MAN is a family-friendly, full length musical for all ages. 

The show runs approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.

A Little Night Music-POSTPONED DUE TO COVID 19

music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by Hugh Wheeler

Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman
Originally Produced and DIrected on Broadway by Harold Prince

A YMTC+ production

A Little Night Music, Sondheim’s sultry, lusty love story set in 1900 Sweden during a weekend in the country, is a sharp, witty musical that, in true farcical form, follows a group of characters of different ages who fall in love with all the wrong people, but eventually end up with their perfect matches.

The score for A Little Night Music was composed in almost entirely three quarter time--making the entire score like a waltz—and includes the popular song “Send in the Clowns.” Winner (1973) of 6 Tony Awards (including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score), 4 Drama Desk Awards (including Outstanding Book, Lyrics and Music), and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

YMTC + is an exciting new area of growth for YMTC, producing professional shows featuring YMTC alumni, and other local professional singing actors, working alongside our students, mentoring them on stage and off. Learn more.

Thursday, July 9, 2020, 7:30pm, PREVIEW
Friday, July 10, 2020, 7:30pm, PREVIEW
Saturday, July 11, 2020, 7:30pm, OPENING
Sunday, July 12, 2020, 2:00pm

Thursday, July 16, 2020, 7:30pm
Friday, July 17, 2020, 7:30pm
Saturday, July 18, 2020, 7:30pm
Sunday, July 19, 2020, 2:00pm

Thursday, July 23, 2020, 7:30pm
Friday, July 24, 2020, 7:30pm
Saturday, July 25, 2019, 7:30pm
Sunday, July 26, 2019, 2:00pm

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI)