Off-Broadway’s toes are tapping as several new musicals this fall have a song in their heart and a spring in their step (arranged in chronological order).

BLIND LEMON BLUES
America’s best-selling blues singer of the 1920’s, Blind Lemon Jefferson, comes to life in a new musical that combines blues, gospel, R&B, soul, doo-wop and rap to evoke the enduring legacy of Blind Lemon and his contemporaries. The York Theatre Company, September 8 – October 4, 2009.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: A ONE-WOMAN MUSICAL
Written entirely in Def-Jam Poetry, spoken word, verse and music, Erin Jividen’s one-woman musical ten female fairy tale characters who wonder: does happily ever after really exist? The Actors Playhouse, September 10 – October 3, 2009.

IMELDA
An ambitious woman conquers the world stage (not to mention the Off Broadway stage) in a new musical portrait of the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos. Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, September 22 – October 18, 2009.

ORDINARY DAYS
The ordinary days of four young New Yorkers prove to be extraordinary as their lives are unexpectedly intertwined by circumstance. An intimate, fast-paced musical by Adam Gwon, starring Hunter Foster and Lisa Brescia. Roundabout Underground, the Black Box Theatre
 at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg 
Center for Theatre. Performances begin October 2.

Click HERE for Fall 2009's DRAMAS
Click HERE for Fall 2009's COMEDIES.
Click HERE for Fall 2009's REVIVALS.
Click HERE for Fall 2009's ONE-PERSON SHOWS.