Time After Time

Time After Time
Book and Lyrics by Stephen Cole
Music Composed by Jeff Saver

Directed by Philip Markle
Musical Direction by Dan Green

TIME AFTER TIME is a musical thriller based on Karl Alexander's novel and the 1970s film version starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner. It takes a darker twist on Well's famous "Time Machine" storyline by bringing H.G. Wells and a not-so-friendly fellow named Jack the Ripper. into the 21st Century, The show pits the "Utopian" view of progressive scientists like H.G. Wells, who believed technology would cure all mankind's ills, with the brutal outlook of a killer like Jack the Ripper, who considered himself a monster in own time but an amateur in today's violent world. Jack and H.G. meet their other-halves in two very 21st century women -- Amy and Carol -- who show us that despite the violence and destruction we face every day, the only thing mankind has to hold on to, the only thing that makes living bearable in terrible times, is love.

The musical has a contemporary music theater sound (not pop), reminiscent of composers like Kander/Ebb, Maltby/Shire, Jeff Blumencrantz, Rupert Holmes, Heisler/Goldrich, and Joseph Thalken. The music is lush and beautiful and the lyrics at turns witty and moving.

A reading of Time After Time will take place at 8pm on Tuesday, November 13th in the Josephine Louis Theatre, 20 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Admission is free. For directions, please see this link:

http://www.tic.northwestern.edu/tic/directions.php

JEFFREY SAVER (Music)  composed the musicals  Dodsworth  (starring Hal Linden & Dee Hoty)  and  Time After Time with collaborator Stephen Cole. He has written and arranged special material for  Chita Rivera, Christine Baranski,   Rosie O’Donnell,  Dorothy Loudon,   Joel Grey,  Bebe Neuwirth  and others. As a music director and pianist his credits include thirteen Broadway shows, including  Chicago,  Kiss Of The Spider Woman,  Into The Woods,  Sunday in the Park with George,  The Secret Garden,  The Rink, and  A Chorus Line.  Off Broadway:  The Fantasticks,  Lucky Stiff.   Tours: Dancin’  (U.S. and Japan),  A Chorus Line  (Paris).  Regional:  Sweeney Todd  with George Hearn and Judy Kaye at Paper Mill Playhouse,  Merrily We Roll Along  and  A Wonderful Life  at Arena Stage  and  Arthur  at the Goodspeed Opera House.  Recently served as musical supervisor of a benefit concert for The Actor’s Fund of  A Wonderful Life,  with an all-star cast featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Judy Kuhn, and David Hyde-Pierce.  Cast albums include  Time After Time/Dodsworth – New Songs from New Musicals  (featuring Judy Blazer, Christian Borle, Liz Callaway and Walter Charles, available on Original Cast Records OC 6128),  Chicago  (both Broadway & Soundtrack),  Kiss of the Spider Woman  (with Vanessa Williams) and  Lucky Stiff.  He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he subsequently taught in the musical theatre department.  Currently teaching at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, where he is a teaching artist-in-residence. His most special material, produced in collaboration with his wife Memby, are his daughters Mariela Eileen and Rosalia Marie.

Stephen Cole (Book and Lyrics) is an award winning, internationally produced, published, and recorded writer. His produced musicals include After the Fair, The Night of the Hunter, Dodsworth, Saturday Night at Grossingers, Casper-The Musical, Piano Bar, The Road to Qatar!, Time after Time,Rock Odyssey, Merlin's Apprentice, Aspire (the first American musical to be commissioned and performed in the Middle East), and others have been produced from New York City to London to Australia to Qatar.  Several are available on CD and have been published as well.  His awards include the prestigious Edward Kleban Award,five Dallas Theatre League Awards, an Outer Critic's Circle nomination for Best Off Broadway Musical, an Honorable Mention for Best Lyrics from the NY Musical Theatre Festival and the Gilman-Gonzalez Falla Commendation for his work in Musical Theatre.  His books include a biography of Noel Coward and That Book About That Girl, an official companion to the famous Marlo Thomas TV series and the recently published and critically acclaimed Marni Nixon’s memoir I Could Have Sung All Night. Stephen has written material for such stars as Christine Baranski, Marlo Thomas, JoAnne Worley, Christine Ebersole, Chita Rivera, Hal Linden, Gavin MacLeod, Dorothy Loudon, Liz Smith, Mike Wallace and many others.  As a producer/director he has put together an all star tribute to Kander and Ebb for the Morgan Library starring Liza Minnelli, Barbara Cook and David Hyde Pierce, and a series of CD’s culled from his private collection entitled Mermania. Current projects include The Black and White Ball for the theatre and Pissed Off!, the memoirs of comedian Jack Carter for the book world.