The Gardens of Anuncia
About the Show
THE GARDENS OF ANUNCIA is inspired by the early life story of an icon of the American stage: Broadway legend Graciela Daniele. Born in Argentina, she began her career as a dancer, studied under Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, and worked with Bob Fosse, Agnes de Mille, and Michael Bennett. Ms. Daniele has directed on Broadway, at Lincoln Center Theater, The Public and regional theaters, earning ten Tony Award nominations and six Drama Desk nominations. Broadway includes Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Annie Get Your Gun, Once on This Island, The Pirates of Penzance, Dangerous Game, Ragtime, The Goodbye Girl, Zorba, The Rink (with Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera), The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Visit. In 2021, Ms. Daniele was the recipient of a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
In this new musical by Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party), Anuncia (Priscilla Lopez; A Chorus Line, In the Heights) tends the garden of her country house as she reflects on her life, looking back on her girlhood in Juan Perón’s Argentina and paying homage to the family of women whose love and sacrifices allowed her to become an artist: her grandmother (Mary Testa; Oklahoma!, Oliver!, Queen of the Mist), mother (Eden Espinosa; Wicked, Brooklyn the Musical), and aunt (Andréa Burns; In the Heights, On Your Feet). This funny, poignant, and beautiful musical features a beguilingly romantic and tango-infused score filled with the exuberant sounds of women reveling in the joys of being alive.
About the Show
THE GARDENS OF ANUNCIA is inspired by the early life story of an icon of the American stage: Broadway legend Graciela Daniele. Born in Argentina, she began her career as a dancer, studied under Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, and worked with Bob Fosse, Agnes de Mille, and Michael Bennett. Ms. Daniele has directed on Broadway, at Lincoln Center Theater, The Public and regional theaters, earning ten Tony Award nominations and six Drama Desk nominations. Broadway includes Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Annie Get Your Gun, Once on This Island, The Pirates of Penzance, Dangerous Game, Ragtime, The Goodbye Girl, Zorba, The Rink (with Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera), The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Visit. In 2021, Ms. Daniele was the recipient of a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
In this new musical by Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party), Anuncia (Priscilla Lopez; A Chorus Line, In the Heights) tends the garden of her country house as she reflects on her life, looking back on her girlhood in Juan Perón’s Argentina and paying homage to the family of women whose love and sacrifices allowed her to become an artist: her grandmother (Mary Testa; Oklahoma!, Oliver!, Queen of the Mist), mother (Eden Espinosa; Wicked, Brooklyn the Musical), and aunt (Andréa Burns; In the Heights, On Your Feet). This funny, poignant, and beautiful musical features a beguilingly romantic and tango-infused score filled with the exuberant sounds of women reveling in the joys of being alive.
About the Theatre
Mitzi Newhouse Theater
150 W 65th St
New York, NY, 10023
The Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater opened to the public on November 10, 1967. Located in the lower level of the Vivian Beaumont Theater building, this space was originally called the Forum during the residency of the now-defunct Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center.
In 1973, the theater was renamed for Mrs. Newhouse, a prominent New York philanthropist, when Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival took over the management of the Vivian Beaumont Theater building. The Festival left Lincoln Center in 1978, and in the seven years that followed, the Newhouse was mostly rented to outside producers or was not used at all. A new resident company was formed in 1979, but it only presented two short runs at the Newhouse in 1981.
In 1985, the theater’s current management — Lincoln Center Theater — was established. Former New York Mayor John V. Lindsay assembled a new board of directors and signed Gregory Mosher as Director and Bernard Gersten as Executive Producer. In 1991, Linda LeRoy Janklow and Andre Bishop succeeded Messrs Lindsay and Mosher as Chairman and Artistic Director. Lincoln Center Theater has not only outlasted all the prior managements combined, but it has become America’s largest not-for-profit theater, producing a year-round program of plays and musicals at the Beaumont, the Newhouse and at various other theaters around New York City.