America Kicks Up Its Heels
- Written by Charles Rubin
- Music & Lyrics by William Finn
- Directed by Mary Kyte
- Directed by Ben Levit
Charlie Rubin is an American television comedy writer, producer, and humorist.
He has written for National Lampoon, The Carol Burnett Show, In Living Color, The Jon Stewart Show, Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Charlie attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York and then Williams College, from which he graduated in 1972. While at Williams, Charlie, along with his friend, Mitchell Rapoport, founded The Williams Advocate. He also produced an original musical called "Sizzle" with William Finn at the Adams Memorial Theater. It was the first original musical to be mounted at Williams College since Stephen Sondheim attended over 20 years earlier. Charlie is currently working on a screen adaptation of Veeck — As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck. He is also a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, where he teaches writing for television.
WILLIAM FINN is well known for the trilogy of short musical shows: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. Falsettos, the combination of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, ran for 486 performances on Broadway and won Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book, the latter shared with James Lapine. Finn and Lapine's other collaborations include Little Miss Sunshine, the Tony Award-winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and A New Brain, which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. Mr. Finn wrote the lyrics for world premiere musical Dangerous Games - Two Tango Pieces (1989), a co-production of La Jolla Playhouse, American Music Theater Festival and Spoleto Festival U.S.A. He is also the composer ofRomance in Hard Times and Elegies, A Song Cycle.
Bio as of January, 2011.
Mary Kyte is an American choreographer and writer. Her Broadway credits include Smile, which she choreographed, and Tintypes, which she choreographed and concieved. Tintypes was nominated for three Tony awards. Her Off-Broadway credits include Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, By Strouse, and Tomfoolery. She is married and has one son. (as of 1986)
Ben Levit is an American director. His New York credits include Herringbone (PH), America Kicks Up Its Heels (PH), The Wakefield Trilogy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, The Genius, Alfred the Great, Our Father's Failing, Native Speech, and Alfred Dies. His regional credits include A Flea in Her Ear, Steamers and Emigres, Pantomime, Terra Nova, A Servant of Two Masters, Chieftans, and Flight to the Fatherland.
Featuring
Robin Boudreau
Robert Dorfman
I.M. Hobson
Rodney Hudson
Alexandra Korey
Dick Latessa
Patti Lupone
Lenora Nemetz
Creative Team
Santo Loquasto
Scenic & Costume DesignerFrances Aronson
Lighting DesignerJohnna Murray & Arturo E. Porazzi
Production Stage ManagersPhotos of (1) Company; (2) Patti LuPone and Robin Boudreau; (3) Dick Latessa and Patti LuPone by Peter Cunningham.