Hunter Foster’s New Works Festival

Redhouse is pleased to announce it’s 2020/21 New Works Festival! After the rousing success of last season’s entries, “Bisland and Bly” and “Trophy Room”, Redhouse is looking for its next great show. This is an extraordinary opportunity to have your play or musical receive a 2 week developmental workshop at the acclaimed Redhouse Arts Center in downtown Syracuse; one of the premier theatre facilities in Central New York. Led by Artistic Director, Hunter Foster, the creative team at Redhouse will choose 1 play and 1 musical for their developmental series. Here is your chance for your work to be cultivated in a creative setting so it can reach its ultimate potential.

February 2nd-14th, 2021

All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go

Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Roberts | Book by Catherine Filloux and John Daggett | Additional Lyrics by John Daggett | Directed by Hannah Ryan | Choreography by Charlie Sutton | Musical Direction by Abel Searor

Jimmy Roberts, composer of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Off Broadway’s second-longest running musical, invites you to a Workshop Performance of his new show. 

Joan Wilkes must sell The Big Dipper Inn, her offbeat and debt-ridden motel in Buffalo, known for its singing hostess and rich family history. Her son is set to go to a pricey university, and she needs the cash. But when a blizzard maroons a group of Amish folks and a busload of male cross-dressers (“The Girls from Syracuse”) on her doorstep, everyone in The Big Dipper finds their hopes and dreams transformed. Inspired by a true event, All Dressed Up blends humor and a powerful musical score to tell a moving story about overcoming differences and the strength in diversity. 

Friday, August 23, 2019 @ 7:00PM
Saturday, August 24, 2019 @ 7:00PM