| Date/ Opened |
Show Name |
Details |
| January 8 |
THE INTERNATIONAL WRESTLING MATCH |
Playwright: Jeff Weiss
Director: Ricardo Martinez
Composer: David Walker |
| January 22 |
NEVER TELL ISOBEL |
Playwright: John Gruen
Director: Gaby Rodgers
Composer: John Gruen |
| February 5 |
FOUR NO PLAYS |
Playwright: Tom Eyen
Director: Tom Eyen
Composer: Bruce Kirle |
| February 21 |
THE EYE BALL TOMB
& THE BEST LOOKING MAN I EVER SAW |
Playwright: Raymond Schanze
Director: Ed Danus |
| March 5 |
THE CRIMINALS |
Playwright: Jose Triana (Cuba)
Director: Aldo Grinberg & Steve Bono |
| March 19 |
COMINGS AND GOINGS
& KISS ROCK
|
Company: The University of Minnesota
Company
Playwright :Megan Terry & Maxine Klein
Director: Maxine Klein
Composer: Theodore P. Unseth, Art Brunevik & Dan Borrows |
| March 24 |
BLUE RAVEN BEAUTY
|
Company: The Bread and Puppet Theatre
Director: Peter Schuman |
| March 27 |
CONCEPT II
|
Company: The Daytop Co.
Director: Lawrence Sacharow |
| March / April |
La MaMa E.T.C. Moves |
La MaMa moved to 74A East 4th Street.
This new building had four stories. Two of them were devoted
to theatres, the third floor was for rehearsals and the fourth
floor was Ellen's apartment. The theatres were identical in size,
approximately 23' x 70' x 14' high. There were dressing rooms
in the rear and the theatres seated 100 people each. |
| April 2 |
CAUTION: A LOVE STORY |
Playwright: Tom Eyen
Director: Tom Eyen
Composer: Bruce Kirle |
| April 3 |
GLORIA & ESPERANZA |
Playwright: Julie Bovasso
Director: Julie Bovasso |
| April 11 |
HOMO
& QUEEN OF GREECE |
Playwright: Rochelle Owens
Director: Edward Setrakian |
| April 12 |
THE RED BURNING LIGHT OF THE AMERICAN
WAY OF LIFE
& A VIETNAMESE WEDDING |
Playwright: Maria Irene Fornes
Directors: Frederic De Boer, James Barbosa, Ken Glickfeld, Maria
Irene Fornes & Remy Charlip
Composer: Richard Peaslee & John Baum |
| April 20 |
RAVEN ROCK |
Playwright: Leonard
Melfi
Director: Wesley Jensby
Composer: Allan Kashkin |
| April 22 |
I AM NOT THE EIFFEL TOWER |
Playwright: Okathrina Oproiu
Director: Rule Royce Johnson |
| April 25 |
A MASS
& RAGS |
Company: Firehouse Theatre
Director: Sydney Schubert Walter |
| May 2 |
THE LAST CHANCE SALOON |
Playwright: Andy Robinson
Director: Joel Zwick
Composer: Judy Stuart |
| May 6 |
THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN |
Playwright: Ross Alexander
Director: Joel Friedman
Composer: David Walker |
| May 11 |
WOYZECK |
Company: Queens College
Playwright: Georg Buchner
Director: Joel Zwick
Composer: Mimi Geier & James Tenney |
| May 15 |
DANISH MODERN |
Playwright: Tom LaBar
Director: Tom Haddad |
| May 15 |
THE ALONZO CASTRO DANCE CO. |
|
| May 21 |
GLORIA & ESPERANZA |
Playwright: Julie Bovasso
Director: Julie Bovasso |
| May 24 |
A BRIDEGROOM FOR MARCELLA
& KLARA |
Nation: Czechoslovakia
Playwright: Ivan Klima
Adapted by: Ruth Willard
Director: Vasek Simek |
| May 29 |
RATS |
Playwright: Israel Horowitz
Director: Michael Brad |
| June 4 |
HOME MONSTER |
Playwright: Stan Thomas
Director: Charles Werner Moore |
| June 4 |
THE LAST CHANCE SALOON
& WOYZEK |
Company: Queens College & La MaMa
Players
Playwright: Andy Robinson & Georg Buchner
Director: Joel Zwick
Composer: Judy Stuart |
| June 6 |
Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down |
Playwright: Tom Eyen
Director: Tom Eyen |
| June 9 |
NINE TO FIVE TO ZERO |
Playwright: Larry Wunderlich
Director: R.Stewart Powell |
| June 13 |
SAMBO |
Playwright: Ron Stewart
Director: Ron Stewart
Composer: Ron Stewart & Neal Tate |
| June 16 |
SOLAR INVENTIONS
& MORNING STAR |
Playwright: Robert Schwartz
Director: Robert Schwartz |
| June 19 |
COCKSTRONG |
Company: Playhouse of the Ridiculous
Playwright: Tom Murrin
Director: John Vaccaro
Composer: The Silver Apples, Ralph Czitron & John Vaccaro |
| June 20 |
HURRICANE OF THE EYE |
Playwright: Emanuel Peluso
Director: Michael Smith
Composer: Donald Lybbert |
| June 20 |
Moments from:
HANNAH,
SOPHIE
& NO PLAYS
|
Playwright: Tom Eyen
Director: Tom Eyen |
| June |
THE LAST CHANCE SALOON
& WOYZECK |
THE LAST CHANCE SALOON & WOYZECK
toured at Amsterdam's Mickery Theatre and in London |
| August 16 |
Benefit for The Old Reliable Theatre |
July & August, La MaMa closed for
vacation. On August 16 LaMaMa held a benefit for The Old Reliable
Theatre. There were plays by Robert Patrick, Michelle Collison,
Michael McGrinder, Tom Terefenko, Jeanine O'Reilly, William Hoffman,
Elmer Klein and Josef Bush. |
| August 27 |
THE AMERICANS |
Playwright: Edward de Grazia
Director: Martin Brenzell |
| September 10 |
CHANGES |
Company: Kenetic Karma
Playwright: Powell Shepard
Director: Powell Shepard |
| September 17 |
RATS MASS |
Playwright: Adrianne Kennedy
Director: Seth Allen
Composer: LaMar Alford |
| September 24 |
IN PRAISE OF FOLLY |
Playwright: Donald Julien
Director: Marshall Mason
Composer: Mitchell Benhoff |
| October |
3 Polish Lab Presentations |
La MaMa co-sponsored the 3 Polish Lab
Presentations in association with Ninon Tallon Karweis and the
Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| October 1 |
THE PENDULUM |
Playwright: Gerald Miller
Director: Gerald Miller
Composer: Richard Chiappone & Sam Sperrazza |
| October 8 |
THE PAIR &
THE SILENT MAN |
Playwrights: Sholom Aleichem & Robert
Sommerfield
Director: Rina Elisha
Composer: Haim Elisha |
| October 8 |
WANTON SOUP |
Playwright: Ching Yeh
Director: Ching Yeh
Composers: Lamar Alford, Michele Collison, O-Lan Johnson, Lee
Kissman
& Ching Yeh
with: Michelle Collison, Lee Kissman, & Lamar Alford |
| October 22 |
RAT'S MASS |
Playwright: Adrianne Kennedy
Director: Seth Allen
Composer: LaMar Alford |
| October 29 |
THE PRIMITIVES |
Company: The Theatre Co.
Director: Larry Sacharow |
| October 31 |
EYE IN NEW YORK |
Playwright: Tom Eyen
Directors: John Vaccaro, Howard Greenberger, Wm Griffin Duffy, &
Tom Eyen |
| October 31 |
NOT ENTIRELY NON-DESCRIPT BUT PERSEPHONE
IN THE SUN |
Playwright: Bruce Kessler |
| November 5 |
MOONDREAMERS |
Playwright: Julie Bovasso
Director: Julie Bovasso |
| November |
THE MOONDREAMERS,
HEIMSKRINGLA! OR THE STONED ANGELS,
FUTZ! |
THE MOONDREAMERS by Julie Bovasso went
to Broadway. HEIMSKRINGLA! OR THE STONED ANGELS by Paul Foster,
directed by Tom O'Horgan with The La MaMa Troupe was shown on
television. The Film of FUTZ! premiered at the Kips Bay Cinema. |
| November 20 |
BIG CHARLOTTE |
Playwright: John Wallowitch
Director: Robert Haddad
Composer: John Wallowitch |
| December 4 |
SPRING VOICES |
Playwright: Andy Robinson
Director: Joel Zwick
Composer: Lamar Alford |
| December 11 |
SPRINTORGASMICS |
Playwright: Wilhelm Pevny
Director: Goetz Frisch |
| December 18 |
NOVA |
Playwright: Robert Schwartz
Director: Robert Schwartz |
| December 25 |
CHRISTMAS SHOW |
Playwright: Tom O'Horgan
Director: Tom O'Horgan
with: 700 people |
| December 26 |
THE UNSEEN HAND |
Playwright: Sam Shepard
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Composer: Beeson Carroll
Later moved to The Astor Place Theatre |