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New Line Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, is an alternative musical theatre company producing challenging, adult, politically and socially relevant works of musical theatre. The company was created in 1991 and produces world premieres like ''Love Kills, Johnny Appleweed, Woman with Pocketbook, She's Hideous, In the Blood, Attempting the Absurd'', and ''The AmberKlavier''; lesser known Broadway and off Broadway shows like ''High Fidelity, Passing Strange, bare, The Wild Party (Lippa musical), Floyd Collins, A New Brain, March of the Falsettos, Passion, The Robber Bridegroom, The Nervous Set'', and ''Bat Boy''; abstract musicals like ''Hair, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris'', and ''Songs for a New World''; absurdist musicals like ''Reefer Madness, Attempting the Absurd, The Cradle Will Rock'', and ''Anyone Can Whistle''; concept musicals like ''Company, Assassins, Urinetown, Chicago, Sunday in the Park with George'', and ''Cabaret''; and reinterpretations of more mainstream works, like ''Evita, Man of La Mancha, Camelot, Pippin, Sweeney Todd, Grease'', and ''Into the Woods''. New Line claims to take philosophical and practical inspiration from theatre models of the 1960s, including Caffé Cino, Cafe LaMaMa ETC, Judson Poets Theatre, Joan Littlewood's People’s Theatre Workshop in London, and to a lesser extent from the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, and various theatre collectives in the US and Europe. New Line has produced the first productions after Broadway of the musicals ''High Fidelity, Cry-Baby'', and ''Hands on a Hardbody'',〔Weinert-Kendt, Rob ("Those Magic Changes" ) American Theatre Magazine, July 2014〕 to enthusiastic reviews, redeeming them after their brief New York runs, giving them new lives in regional theatre.〔 In 2014, New Line Theatre was honored by the St. Louis Theater Circle with a special award for the company's body of work over the years, and a feature story in ''American Theatre (magazine)''.〔 ==Past Shows== ; 1991–1992 * A Tribute to the Rock Musicals * * Attempting the Absurd * ; 1992–1993 * Smokin’ Santa * * A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim * ; 1993–1994 * A Tribute to the Dark Side * * Breaking Out in Harmony * * Assassins (musical) * * ; 1994–1995 * Pippin (musical) * In the Blood * ; 1995–1996 * Company (musical) * Out on Broadway * * Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ; 1996–1997 * Passion (musical) * * * Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris * The Ballad of Little Mikey * * ; 1997–1998 * Extreme Sondheim * * March of the Falsettos * Woman with Pocketbook * * Assassins (musical) ; 1998–1999 * Songs for a New World * * * Camelot (musical) * Into the Woods ; 1999–2000 * Floyd Collins (musical) * * * Out on Broadway 2000 * * Hair (musical) ; 2000–2001 * Cabaret (musical) * Anyone Can Whistle * Hair (musical) ; 2001–2002 * The Cradle Will Rock * A New Brain * * * Chicago (musical) ; 2002–2003 * The Rocky Horror Show * Bat Boy: The Musical * * * The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ; 2003–2004 * Sunday in the Park with George * The Nervous Set * Reefer Madness (musical) * * * Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical) ; 2004–2005 * Man of La Mancha * She’s Hideous * * The Robber Bridegroom (musical) * Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical) ; 2005–2006 * The Fantasticks * The AmberKlavier * * Bat Boy: The Musical * Jesus Christ Superstar ; 2006–2007 * Johnny Appleweed * * Grease (musical) * Urinetown ; 2007–2008 * Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll * * Assassins (musical) * High Fidelity (musical) * * ; 2008–2009 * Hair (musical) * Return to the Forbidden Planet * * * The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ; 2009–2010 * Love KIlls * * The Wild Party (Lippa musical) * * * Evita (musical) ; 2010–2011 * I Love My Wife * * * Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical) * Bare: A Pop Opera * * ;2011–2012 * Passing Strange * * * Cry-Baby (musical) * * * High Fidelity (musical) ;2012-2013 * Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson * Next to Normal * Bukowsical * * ;2013-2014 * Night of the Living Dead, a musical thriller * * * Rent (musical) * Hands on a Hardbody (musical) * * ;2014-2015 * Bonnie & Clyde (musical) * * * Jerry Springer: The Opera * The Threepenny Opera ;2015-2016 * Heathers: The Musical * * * American Idiot (musical) * Atomic * * * Tell Me on a Sunday * * An asterisk denotes world premiere; a double-asterisk denotes regional premiere〔("New Line Theatre's Past Shows" ) New Line Theatre website〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Line Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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