![]() Matthews, UB Director of Music Theatre, will music direct and conduct the production. As a Producer, Neil is the creator and co-producer of Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway, the number one Broadway touring concert in the United States for nearly a decade. Neil also composed the musical Grumpy Old Men based on the Warner Brothers film, the musical Heidi (book by Julia Jordan), Hexed in the City (Off-Broadway), the fairytale musical Never Grimm (book by Jonathan Feldman, screenwriter for the film Swing Kids), and Tim and Scrooge (with book and lyrics by Nick Meglin, former editor of Mad Magazine). He is collaborating with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Robert Schenkkan on a new rock musical called The Twelve which will open at the Denver Center in the spring of 2015. In New York City he has worked at, Hudson Guild Theater, Queens Theater in the Park, and the Zipper Theater.Ĭomposer Neil Berg is the composer/lyricist of Off-Broadway’s The Prince and the Pauper, which ran for two years at the Lambs Theater in New York City. Salisbury has directed and/or choreographed nationwide including Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, Dallas Summer Musicals, the Sacramento Music Circus, and the Riverside Theater of Vero Beach, FL. The production will be directed by guest artist DJ Salisbury. The fully-orchestrated CD recording, featuring Brian d'Arcy James, Marc Kudisch and Mandy Gonzalez can be found on iTunes. Moises Kaufman of the Tectonic Theater Project has also supported the piece with dramaturgical guidance. The musical has had a developmental reading at The Village Theater in Issaquah, WA (directed by Tony Award winner Brian Yorkey, writer of Next To Normal), a staged reading at the Rubicon Theater in CA as part of the Los Angeles Musical Theatre Festival, and a showcase presentation at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The tragic and intriguing adventure is woven via flashback sequences. as is the strict religious code of the people. But when the ‘Messiah’ decides to stay behind and continue the charade by marrying the woman his friend loves, their pact of friendship is pushed to a breaking point. Sitting out winter until they can make their way back over the mountains and return to England as rich men, one falls in love with the woman they’d rescued, and the other transforms into a noble man as he pretends to be a god. Soon after, one of the rogues - by virtue of a medallion under his shirt - survives an arrow to the heart and is declared the long awaited Messiah. On their quest, they rescue a young woman from a dreaded pre-arranged marriage and quickly become the leaders of the mountain tribes. Two former soldiers, after being threatened with deportation, seek to secure their fortune by pursuing a rumor of ancient gold in the remote villages of the Hindu Kush mountains. Set in Imperial British India, in 1888, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING tells an adventurous tale of legendary treasure, greed, imperialistic hubris, mistaken identity, love, and treachery. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING is a period musical based on Kipling’s novella of the same name. The music director for the production is Nathan R. The original musical has a book by DJ Salisbury, music by Neil Berg, and lyrics by DJ Salisbury. Performance times are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm. Original work directed and choreographed by DJ Salisburyīuffalo, NY – The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre & Dance will present THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING from Wednesday, November 19 through Sunday, November 23 in the Black Box, located at Center for the Arts, North Campus. UB Department of Theatre & Dance presents The Man Who Would Be King - November 19-23
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