Mark Savage (American playwright)
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Mark Savage is an American playwright, songwriter, and theatre director. He specializes in Gay
Musical Theatre
and is associated with the Celebration Theatre
in Los Angeles. His coming-out musical "The Ballad Of Little Mikey" premiered in 1994 and has had productions in a dozen US cities. He wrote a song for "Naked Boys Singing", an Off-Broadway Musical Review that has run for 6 years. He curated a reading series called "Queering the Classics," which in 2001 spawned "Pinafore!", a gay adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore
. "Pinafore!" won Best Musical at the LA Weekly Theatre Awards
and Best Production at the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival
and the Original cast recording
was released by Belva Records.
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
Musical Theatre
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
and is associated with the Celebration Theatre
Celebration Theatre
The Celebration Theatre is a 501 non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles, founded in 1982. The company is located in West Hollywood, on the west end of Theatre Row, and specializes in works representing the Gay and Lesbian experience.-History:...
in Los Angeles. His coming-out musical "The Ballad Of Little Mikey" premiered in 1994 and has had productions in a dozen US cities. He wrote a song for "Naked Boys Singing", an Off-Broadway Musical Review that has run for 6 years. He curated a reading series called "Queering the Classics," which in 2001 spawned "Pinafore!", a gay adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore
HMS Pinafore
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical...
. "Pinafore!" won Best Musical at the LA Weekly Theatre Awards
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
and Best Production at the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival
New York International Fringe Festival
The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a Fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It takes place over the course of two weeks every August, spread across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the...
and the Original cast recording
Cast recording
A cast recording is a recording of a musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience. An original cast recording, as the name implies, features the voices of the show's original cast...
was released by Belva Records.