Even as questions about safety protocols remain to be determined, Asolo Repertory Theatre plans to return to a full season of indoor productions next season beginning with a fall staging of the tribal rock musical “Hair.”
In an online video Wednesday afternoon, Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards announced a lineup that is primarily filled with the same plays and musicals that were intended to be presented over the last two seasons but were canceled or postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Among the previously planned productions are Thornton Wilder’s classic “Our Town,” the recent Broadway comedy “Grand Horizons” by Bess Wohl, Lauren Yee’s “The Great Leap,” the delayed world premiere of the new musical “Knoxville,” and “Hood,” a new musical inspired by the Robin Hood story that has its eye on Broadway.
Kim McCann, attired in seafaring garb of an earlier era, speaking with the cadence of a shipâs roll, took us into the intricacies of how and why landlocked Indianapolis came to house the Naval Reserve Armory 85 years ago. She spoke of its continuing legacy as a part of Indianapolis Classical Schools, a free charter school, which was honored with the Cook Cup for innovative renovation.
Marking the tenth anniversary of a unique partnership between Storytelling Arts and Indiana Landmarks, McCann stepped onto the Cook Theatre stage at the Indiana Landmarks Indianapolis headquarters and, via Zoom on Feb. 28, transported us across time and spaces from this former home of the Central Avenue United Methodist Church in the Old Northside Neighborhood to the near downtown site of the recently established Riverside High School.