One of my spring shows...
...is going to be Into The Woods. I haven't heard about the other two options yet - last year all three were scheduled on the same weekend, a real bummer.
In a good year, I play all three of them - tight scheduling when you are working full time, but easy as pie now that I am retired.
One of the problems that I face with shows is that all of my current contacts are at Lutheran high schools, made through the sidemen in my band. Unfortunately, the religious nature of these schools cuts out a lot of Broadway stuff - no 3¢ Opera (whores and extramarital sex), no Assassins (assassination) no Cabaret (whores and an abortion), no Evita (a whore turned politician), no Company (dope smoking, on stage sex scene), no Mame (extra marital sex, unwed mother) and so forth. It really cuts down the available field.
Whereas some of the schools here in town (the Episcopalian one, for example) do the shows seen above, my Lutheran friends are way too straight laced. Hell, the show doctor at one school cut the hinting at philandering union rep out of most of the scenes in The Pajama Game - too risque for those Lutheran elders...)
When I was young and working ten hour days with Uncle Sam, I used to spend my winter evenings playing shows at the American Theater and with the St. Louis Repertory Theater in Saint Louis. That's where I amassed most of my experience. Imagine 3¢ Opera with hot chicks from the 1960s in the female roles...
The pay was better too.
Ah, youth...