About Landmark Musical Theatre
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius!
- HAiR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (original Broadway production, 1968 - our production, 2017)
Well, not exactly. But it was the dawning of a new Bay Area musical theatre company, Landmark Musical Theatre! Our company grew out of a desire to bring our production of Tomfoolery to a new home in the big city after a successful four-week run at Santa Clara Players in the spring of 2015. When the Eureka Theatre became available, what else were we supposed to do except "put on a show!"
With the support of our Santa Clara cast and many friends and family, we managed to raise enough money in literally a few days to acquire the rights to repeat the production in San Francisco and rent the theater. Before you knew it, it was opening night! Our first production ran at the Eureka from July 17 to August 2, 2015.
Dreams can come true again, when everything old is new again!
- The Boy From Oz (original Broadway production, 2003 - our production, 2016)
In the fall of 2015, artistic director Jon Rosen got involved with a newly emerging theater venue in San Francisco, the Great Star Theatre in Chinatown. Originally a Chinese opera house in the 1920s, it spent many years as a movie theater showing Hong Kong "action" genre films. After being closed for a number of years, it reopened in 2015 as a place for performances of a slightly off-beat nature.
Jon's involvement with the venue led to an offer to stage the first Broadway musical ever produced on that stage. And that led Landmark Musicals to its second production, the Bay area premiere of the hit Broadway musical The Boy From Oz, a story about Peter Allen, the famed songwriter, showman and one-time husband to Liza Minelli (and son-in-law to Judy Garland). The show ran at the Great Star from April 23 to May 15, 2016.
Since then, we have had five more seasons with many successful productions.
2017
"Stand well back we're coming through, nothing can stop us now!"
- Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd (original Broadway production 1966)
"Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair, shining, steaming, gleaming flaxen waxen!"
- HAiR (original Broadway production 1968)
2018
"Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh so mellow..."
- The Fantasticks (original off-Broadway production 1960)
"All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon when we're poisoning pigeons in the park!"
- Tomfoolery (original off-Broadway production 1984)
2019
"Don't cry for me, Argentina... the truth is I never left you!"
- Evita (original Broadway production 1979)
"As we stumble along on life's dreary highway, never knowing left from right or right from wrong!"
- The Drowsy Chaperone (original Broadway production 2006)
2020
(cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic)
"It's a hard, cold, tumble of a journey, bumble of a journey to Urinetown!"
- Urinetown the Musical (original Broadway production 2001)
2021
"Woe is me, woe is me, which is why I've gotta win this spelling bee!"
- 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (original Broadway production 2005)
2022
"Happiness is finding a pencil, pizza with sausage, telling the time!"
- You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (original off-Broadway production 1967)
"Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure a year in a life. How about love?"
- RENT (original Nroadway production 1996)
"When you're an Addams, you have to have a little moonlight, when you're an Addams, you really have to feel the chill!"
- The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy (original Broadway production 2011)
We are really looking forward to the rest of 2022. With Rent, The Addams Family and Annie Warbucks in the wings, this year will be our biggest year ever! We hope you join us.
We have received our approved 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt authorization from the I.R.S. so we are accepting all forms of grants and donations.
JONATHAN ROSEN, Co-Founder and Artistic Director
RICHARD GUTIERREZ, Co-Founder