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‘Transparent’ Musical Highlights Center Theater Group Season

The world premiere of the groundbreaking Amazon series “Transparent” stage musical adaptation highlights the 2022-23 season of the Los Angeles Center Theater Group, the company announced Thursday.

The work “A Transparent Musical” features characters from the original series of gender parents in a Jewish family in Los Angeles, appearing as transgender women. The new musical comedy is being billed as “a story of self-discovery, acceptance, and celebration.” The world premiere will be held at the Mark Taper Forum in May.

The creators of the original series, Joe Isoroway and MJ Kaufman, wrote the book with the music and lyrics of Faith Soloway, who wrote all four seasons of the television series and composed the finale songs. Choreographed by James Aslop (“Girls5eva”) and directed by Tina Landau (“SpongeBob SquarePants: Broadway Musical”).

“My brother and I dreamed of creating a stage musical that would bring the transgender and Jewish experience to mainstream pop culture fantasia,” Joe Isoroway said in a release.

Inspired by the later transitions of his brother Joey and Faith Soloway’s parents’ own lives, the original series was one of the first mainstream shows to focus on transgender issues when premiered in 2014. was. Eight Emmy Awards and New York Times Alessandra Stanley praised it as “an insightful, unobtrusive comedy spoken without piety and burlesque.” It was also the first script series to showcase the transgender characters that are migrating.

“A Transparent Musical” will start on May 20, 2023, start on May 31, and will be performed on a limited basis until June 25, 2023.

Center Theater Group, a non-profit theater with a history of 55 years, is the world premiere of the Larissa Fast Horse comedy “Fake It until You Make It” (August 2nd to September 3rd, 2023), “Shifter”, In other words, I will introduce the people who exist. In the world of self-determined identity. In addition, we will introduce the play “Exploring the Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe” by one woman of Jane Wagner starring Cecily Strong in “Saturday Night Live” (September 21st to October 23rd). The comedy “Clyde” (November 15th to December 18th), a track stop set nominated by Lynn Nottage’s Tony. Anna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” (March 8-9, 2023) taper revival.

Works are part of the Center Group’s season and include only works by writers who identify them as female, transgender, or non-binary. Most of them are color artists formed after the company. Called Last fall, the 10-play 2021-22 season, which included only one female piece.

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