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42nd Street Moon is a theatre company in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1993. Is is the second oldest musical theatre revival company (after Ian Fishers Disover Lost Musicals in London, England). They have presented the American premiere of musical scores by Jerome Kern (Three Sisters and The Cabaret Girl) and Johnny Mercer (The Good Companions). 42nd Street Moon has also produced the first American revivals of Rodgers and Hart’s 1926 musical Peggy-Ann, and Andre Previn's Coco.
As a professional company, 42nd Street Moon is on Tier Two of the Bay Area Theatre Agreement of Actors' Equity Association.
The company specializes in the preservation and presentation of early and lesser known works by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Jule Styne, and Comden and Green.
Cast recordings of the Moon productions of Cole Porter's Something for the Boys and Leave it to Me have been produced. The public may view archival videos of many Moon productions at Museum of Performance and Design (MoAD) in San Francisco.
Productions[edit]
- 1993: Jubilee; One Touch of Venus; Oh, Lady! Lady!!; Fifty Million Frenchmen; Sweet Adeline; DuBarry Was a Lady
- 1994: Peggy-Ann; The Cat and the Fiddle; Hollywood Pinafore; Something for the Boys; Darling of the Day; As Thousands Cheer
- 1995: A Connecticut Yankee; Pipe Dream; America's Sweethearts; Very Warm for May; I Married an Angel; Three Sisters; The Great Revues (revue); Once in a Blue Moon (revue); Nobody's Heart (Rodgers & Hart revue); The Song is You (Oscar Hammerstein, II revue)
- 1996: Silk Stockings; Dearest Enemy; Goodtime Charley; The Night Boat; Roberta; Lady, Be Good!; Love and Nuts and Noodles (revue); Something Sort of Grandish (Yip Harburg revue)
- 1997: Face the Music; Louisiana Purchase; High Spirits; Fanny; Something for the Boys; Jubilee; I'd Like to Hide It (revue)
- 1998: Do I Hear a Waltz?; Girl Crazy; Redhead; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Nymph Errant; Call Me Madam; Fabulous Flops (revue)
- 1999: Fiorello!; Sitting Pretty; On a Clear Day; Let's Face It!; The Grass Harp; Babes in Arms; A Century of Musicals (revue)
- 2000: Funny Face; Out of This World; The Good Companions; Dear World; I Married an Angel; Jazz Up Your Lingerie! (revue)
- 2001: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!; The Cat and the Fiddle; Do Re Mi; Goldilocks; Leave It to Me!; Guess What's Under My Umbrella (revue)
- 2002: By Jupiter; Pipe Dream; A Connecticut Yankee; Peggy-Ann; Too Many Girls
- 2003: Paint Your Wagon; Roberta; Finian's Rainbow; Oh Captain!; Fifty Million Frenchman;
- 2004/05: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; The Cabaret Girl; Can-Can; Hooray for What!; Once Upon a Mattress; Minnie's Boys; The Boys from Syracuse
- 2005/06: Red Hot and Blue!; Miss Liberty; The Roar of the Greasepaint; The Golden Apple; Mack & Mabel
- 2006/07: Li'l Abner; Pardon My English; Flora the Red Menace; Plain and Fancy; Gay Divorce
- 2007/08: One Touch of Venus; Oh, Lady! Lady!!; The Student Gypsy or "The Prince of Liederkranz"; Coco; Peddling Rainbows (Harburg revue); Out of This World
- 2008/09: Irma La Douce; Girl Crazy; Ben Franklin in Paris; High Spirits; Wildcat!;
- 2009/10: Call Me Madam; Destry Rides Again; I Feel a Song Coming On; Jubilee; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Lady, Be Good!; Very Warm for May; Everything The Traffic Will Allow: The Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman
- 2010/11: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum; Once in a Million Moons; Murder for Two: A Killer Musical; Babes in Arms, And All That Jazz; Strike Up the Band; Silk Stockings
- 2011/12: Nymph Errant; Oh, Kay!; Three Sisters; Sugar; Zorba