Don't Tell Me Everything
- Book, Music, and Lyrics by Josh Rubins
- Book and Music by Peter Larson
- Music by John Lewis
- Directed by Caymichael Patten
Josh Rubins is an American writer, composer, and lyricist. He has written songs that have been performed by Dionne Warwick, Bette Midler, Michael Crawford, Liz Callaway, and others. In addition to his work at Playwrights Horizons, Rubins has written music and lyrics for several productions including Conversations with Don B., Sufragette!, Night Riders, Puddinhead Wilson, and the workshop production of Blondie, and Brownstone, which earned Rubins the Richard Rodgers Production Award. Rubins has also won Broadcast Music Inc.'s University Show Competition twice.
Peter Larson is a musical director and composer. His Broadway credits include My One and Only , Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, and Sarava. His Off-Broadway credits include Brownstone (Playwrights Horizons), Roadside, and Jolson and Co.
John Lewis is an American composer. In addition to composition, Lewis has also been a music director, most notably for the Actor's Playhouse's production of The Proposition. In recent years, Lewis has worked as a lighting designer, most recently on the Broadway production of 900 Oneonta.
Caymichael Patten has been teaching and directing in New York for more than 25 years. She was a founding member of The Women’s Project and the Casting Director for The American Place Theatre. She studied with Wynn Handman and established The Caymichael Patten Studio in 1988. Ms. Patten has directed extensively in New York City at Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Repertory Company, Second Stage, The WPA, Playwright's Horizons, American Place Theatre, and The Women's Project. She has also adapted numerous plays for the stage. Some of the original New York productions she has directed include Rapmaster Ronnie by Elizabeth Swados and Garry Trudeau, Hold Me! and A Think Piece by Jules Feiffer, A Foot in the Door by Bruce Jay Friedman, Lady With A Braidby Dory Previn, Jacob's Ladder, Conversations with Don B.and George F. Walker’s Beautiful City. Ms. Patten has also directed many revivals in the city and productions outside New York. Among her favorites are: Sam Shepard’s La Turista, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and Corinne Jacker’s Bits and Pieces. Most recently, she has been adapting and directing Side Dishes, which has been performed in half a dozen regional theatres and in New York at the Nuyorican Poets Café. (As of 1978)
Featuring:
Raymond Baker
Kimberly Farr
Jane Galloway
Harris Shore
Scenic Design: Barry Robison
Lighting Design: Annie Wrightson
Production Stage Manager: Greg McCaslin
Choreographer: Dalienne Majors