" 'Love, Janis' Extends to Oct 31 in TX", October 7, 1997 "Review: ‘Love, Janis the Songs, the Letters, the Soul of Janis Joplin’ Variety, May 16, 1994 A soundtrack album, using the original music and with letters read by Catherine Curtin, has also been released. Music direction for the Off-Broadway production was provided by Sam Andrew, founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company. Performances include many of Joplin's most famous songs, " Piece of My Heart", "Get It While You Can", " Me and Bobby McGee", "Ball and Chain" and " Mercedes Benz". Her journey is told in her own words the entire spoken text is quoted from Joplin's letters and interviews. The musical begins in 1966, after Joplin has hitchhiked to San Francisco to join Big Brother and the Holding Company, and ends with her death in 1970. Myler constructed the musical around the letters that Laura Joplin had given him. The musical was inspired by the best-selling book of the same name by sister Laura Joplin. The musical ran at the Alley Theatre, Houston Texas starting in January 2008, directed by Myler and starring Katrina Chester. A production ran at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre (Kansas City) in 2007, directed by Myler which featured Kacee Clanton and Mary Bridget Davies alternating as the singing Janis. The San Francisco production included lighting by Bill Ham, the man behind the psychedelic light shows at the Avalon Ballroom and other venues in San Francisco in the 1960s. A production played at the Marines Memorial Theater, San Francisco in July 2006, directed by Myler and with musical direction by former Big Brother And The Holding Company band member Sam Andrew. The musical premiered on the West Coast at the San Diego Repertory Theatre in September 2001 ( directed by Randal Myler). There were many regional productions that ran after the Off-Broadway production. Production design was by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer and costumes were by Robert Blackman ("Star Trek"). Directed by Randal Myler, Catherine Curtin starred as Janis, with alternating performances by Cathy Richardson and Andra Mitrovich (later singers included Beth Hart, Laura Branigan, Orfeh, and Sass Jordan). Love, Janis opened Off-Broadway at the Village Theatre, New York City, opening on Apand closed on Januafter over 700 performances. The musical also played at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York in 2000, as well as the Cleveland Playhouse (in 1999) and the Royal George Theatre in Chicago (in 1999, Catherine Curtin receiving a Best Actress Joseph Jefferson nomination). Directed by Randal Myler, Andra Mitrovich played Janis as the soulful singer and Catherine Curtin portrayed the private woman. Love, Janis was produced at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Austin, Texas, running in August 1997 through October 1997. Onstage Janis was played by Laura Theodore and Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things, Orange Is The New Black) played the private Janis. Love, Janis was initially produced by the Denver Center Theater Company in May 1994, written and directed by Randal Myler. The show had a long and healthy run, garnering over 700 performances. It debuted Off-Broadway in 2001 at the Village Theater (formerly the famed Village Gate) with musical direction by former Big Brother And The Holding Company band member Sam Andrew. Love, Janis is the musical stage show about the life and music of rock and roll singer Janis Joplin, conceived, adapted and directed by Randal Myler (Hank Williams Lost Highway, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues). 2006 San Francisco Marines Memorial Theatre
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