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RUNAWAYS (from 2018 Gala performance)

By Elizabeth Swados

Directed by Sam Pinkleton

Choreography by Ani Taj 

Creative advisement by Jeanine Tesori

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ROAD SHOW (Original Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 2008)

Book by John Weidman  

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim  

Featuring: Michael Cerveris, Alex Gemignani, Claybourne Elder

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Mobile Unit - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (2018)

Written by William Shakespeare 

Directed by Jenny Koons

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HAIR (Original Broadway Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 1967)

Book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado

Music by Galt McDermot

Directed by Gerald Freedman

Featuring: James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Melba Moore, Ronnie Dyson, Diane Keaton

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Miss You Like Hell (2018) 

Directed by Lear deBessonet 

Book and Lyrics by Quiara Alegría Hudes 

Music and Lyrics by Erin McKeown 

Featuring: Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gizel Jiménez

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The Tempest (2015) 

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Michael Greif

Featuring: Sam Waterston, Louis Cancelmi, Francesca Carpanini, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Danny Mastrogiorgio

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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (Original Broadway Cast Recording – Premiered at the Delacorte in 1985)

Adapted from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens  

Book and music by Rupert Holmes

Directed by Wilford Leach

Featuring: Betty Buckley, Donna Murphy, Judy Kuhn, Cleo Laine, Robert Grossman, George Rose

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Fire in Dreamland (2018)

By Rinne Groff

Directed by Marissa Wolf

Featuring: Rebecca Naomi Jones, Kyle Beltran, Enver Gjokaj

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SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE (Original Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 2005)

By Michael John LaChiusa

Directed by Ted Sperling

Musical direction by Chris Fenwick

Featuring: Idina Menzel, Mary Testa

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FUN HOME (Original Broadway Cast – Premiered at The Public in 2012)

Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron

Music by Jeanine Tesori

Directed by Sam Gold

Featuring: Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Beth Malone, Sydney Lucas

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But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she.

Pedro Pascal reading Romeo’s balcony monologue from Pablo Neruda’s translation of Romeo & Juliet (Act II, Scene II).

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Pedro Pascal really brought it in this week’s #BraveNewShakespeare challenge, there’s no denying. Now it’s your turn. Share your interpretation of Romeo’s speech -- a reading, a dance, a piece of visual art? Whatever inspires you, share it using #BraveNewShakespeare.

Learn more: publictheater.nyc/bns2

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017)

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Lear deBessonet

Featuring: Annaleigh Ashford, De’Adre Aziza, Kyle Beltran, Danny Burstein, Shalita Grant, Alex Hernandez, Kristine Nielsen, Phylicia Rashad  

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THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE (Original Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 2014)

Book by Itamar Moses

Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman

Conceived and directed by Daniel Aukin

Based upon the novel by Jonathan Lethem

Featuring: Kyle Beltran, Adam Chanler-Berat, Andre De Shields, Brian Tyree Henry, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Kevin Mambo

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SOUTHERN COMFORT (2016)

Directed and Conceived by Thomas Caruso

Conceived by Bob Dusold

Book and Lyrics by Dan Collins

Music by Julianne Wick Davis

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RUNAWAYS (Original Broadway Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 1978)

Written, composed, and directed by Elizabeth Swados

Featuring: Sheila Gibbs, Bernie Allison, Trini Alvarado, Leonard Brown

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“The community of people in a room, who don’t live anywhere near each other, don’t know each other’s names, never saw each other, different walks of life, but they all come together and they’re in that space, and for that time, held together with an attention paid to the same thing.” – Phylicia Rashad, Actress

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GIANT (Original Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 2012)

Book by Sybille Pearson

Music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa  

Directed by Michael Greif

Featuring: Brian d’Arcy James, Kate Baldwin, John Dossett, Michele Pawk, Bobby Steggert