| Date/ Opened |
Show Name |
Details |
| January 4 |
CHANGES
La MaMa Troupe |
Company: La MaMa Troupe
Playwright: Megan Terry
Director: Tom O'Horgan
Composer: Tom O'Horgan |
| January 10 |
Fischer |
Playwright: Yoram Porat
Director: Carl Eigsti
Composer: Tom O'Horgan |
| January 25 |
FUTZ,
TOM PAINE (parts I & II),
TIMES SQUARE
& MELODRAMA PLAY
|
Company: La MaMa Troupe
Playwright: Rochelle Owens, Paul Foster, Leonard Melfi & Sam
Shepard
Director: Tom O'Horgan
Composer: Tom O'Horgan
The La MaMa Troupe returned from their last tour and presented
these plays |
| February 1 |
THE MOONDREAMERS |
Playwright: Julie Bovasso
Director: Julie Bovasso |
| February 20 |
HUNG
& ROOMATES |
Playwright: Tom Murrin
Director: Edward Setrakian & Robert Haddad |
| February 29 |
CHICAGO
|
Company: La MaMa Troupe
Playwright: Sam Shepard
Director: Tom O'Horgan |
| March 6 |
THE CYLINDER,
COMPLEXIONS
& INSIDE OUT
|
Company: La MaMa Plexus
Playwright: Victor Copi & Jan Quackenbush
Director: Stanley Rosenberg |
| March 21 |
RECESS
|
Company: American Exploratory Theatre
Playwright: Dolores Walker & Andrew Piotrowski
Director: Rule Royce Johnson |
| March |
RECESS,
TOM PAINE |
The play RECESS was made into a film.
Also, TOM PAINE with the La MaMa Troupe opened at Stage 73 |
| March 27 |
A SENSE OF WILDFLOWERS |
Playwright: Bruce Comer
Director: David O'Neill
Composer: Bruce Comer & Dan Fox |
| April 11 |
HAVING FUN IN THE BATHROOM |
Playwright: Leonard
Melfi
Director: Edward Setrakian
Composer: Christopher Allport |
| April 17 |
KEEP TIGHTLY CLOSED IN A COOL
DRY PLACE |
Playwright: Megan Terry
Director: Glen Jordan
Composer: Sam Pottle |
| April |
HAIR |
by Jerry Ragni and Jim Rado, directed
by Tom O'Horgan opened on Broadway. Although not a La MaMa Production,
we felt intimately connected. |
| April 29 |
SEVENTEEN BOXES
& LET THERE BE LIGHT |
Playwright: Raphael Bunuel
Director: Larry Luckinbill |
| June |
FUTZ
|
by Rochelle Owens directed by Tom
O'Horgan with the La MaMa Troupe opened at the Theatre de Lys.
La MaMa at 122 Second Avenue, second floor, closed. During
august of 1967, La MaMa was awarded its first grant from
the Rockefeller Foundation for $65,000. $44,000 was for the
La MaMa Troupe, $6,000 were for productions expenses, and
$15,000 was to go to purchase a permanent building for La
MaMa. Therefore, we did not renew the lease on 122 Second
Avenue, and the space was rented to The Naked Grape, a clothing
store.
The new home of La MaMa was at 74A East 4th Street. It had
been built for a German singing club, Die Ascenbroedel-Verein
(the Cinderella Club), with busts of Mozart, Beethoven and
Hayden over the 2nd floor windows; then it was the hygrade
hotdog factory; then it was vacant and ruined for several years.
So, while waiting for renovations to be completed, we opened
temporarily on the second floor of 9 St. Mark's Place. |
| August |
MASSACHUSETTS TRUST,
THE LABYRINTH |
Ellen Stewart organized an International
Theatre Theatre Festival at Brandeis University un Waltham, Mass.
Among the productions were: MASSACHUSETTS TRUST by Megan Terry,
directed by Tom O'Horgan and the La MaMa Troupe; Max Stafford-Clark
and his company from Edinburgh with a play by Stanley Eveling;
Jerome Savary and his compny from Paris with THE LABYRINTH by
Fernando Arrabal. |
| October |
Tom O'Horgan and the La MaMa Troupe
went to Jenny Lind, California to make a film of FUTZ! |
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