1976
Gavité (McLean/Stanard) (p)
A Hand of Bridge (Barber/Menotti)
The Detective's Dilemma Humez// Humez) (p)
Chaser (Hecker) (p)
1977
Into This Shadow (Orr) (p
The Coffee Cantata (Bach Picander)
Turtles (N. & A. Humez) (p)
A Woman Alive: Conversation Against Death (Rogers/Merriam) (p)
1978
The Judge, the Doctor and the Hermit (Dudensing) (p)
Mushrooms (Hecker) (p)
The Village Soothsayer (Rousseau) (p)
(p) Denotes premiere
Collaborations list composer, followed by librettist or choreographer
1976 Gavité (McLean/Stanard) (p) A Hand of Bridge (Barber/Menotti) The Detective's Dilemma Humez// Humez) (p) Chaser (Hecker) (p)
1977 Into This Shadow (Orr) (p The Coffee Cantata (Bach Picander) Turtles (N. & A. Humez) (p) A Woman Alive: Conversation Against Death (Rogers/Merriam) (p)
1978 The Judge, the Doctor and the Hermit (Dudensing) (p) Mushrooms (Hecker) (p) The Village Soothsayer (Rousseau) (p)
1979 DANCE FABLES: Welcoming Theodorou) (p) How the Elephant Got Its Trunk (Rogers/Siegel) (p) The Dancing Princesses (Humez/Keller) (p)
1980 The Apparition (Leonard) (p) The Dark (Orr) (p) Patterns (McLean/Lowell) (p) Peri Massone (Timko) (p)
1981 Pericles (Hecker/Shakespeare) (p)
1982 The Cradle Will Rock (Blitzstein)
1983 Romance at Short Notice (N. & A. Humez) (p)
1984 Lysistrata (Clarke/Aristophanes-Stevenson) (p)
1985 The Play of Herod (?)
1986 Johnny Johnson (Weill/Green)
1987 FLEETING VISIONS: Waiting Forever (Denhard) (p) The Story of Belmiele and Belsole (Domina/Calvino) (p) Red Riding Hood (Dedell/Wach) (p)
1988 Of Thee I Sing (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin, Kaufman, Ryskind)
1989 VERMONT COMPOSERS FESTIVAL - Music Theater Evening Mushrooms (Hecker) Bitter Herbs (Starner/Scholl) (p) Big Sister (Gunn)
1990 Socrate (Satie/Plato-Cousin-Thomson. Calder)
1993 Baron Medusa's Trap (Satie) Music for a Farce (Bowles) Facade (Walton/Sitwell)
1994 Guest Production The Village Store Verbatim (Siegel/Vasilevski)
1998 Barataria (Hecker/Tyler) (p)
2000 The Coming of Christ (Play by Masefield; music by Holst)
2002 Showing Off revue-style evening of neglected songs of the American Musical Theater, costumed and staged, and including first performances of songs from Zeke Hecker's unproduced musical, Tryst
2004 Savitri (Holst)
2006 Going On! another revue-style evening including some songs by Zeke Hecker
2007 Mayra (Stravinsky/Pushkin) a one-act opera produced as part of a Stravinsky birthday concert Please! revue-style evening on a travel-related theme, including the premiere of songs from Zeke Hecker's musical The Lift, staged in 2008 and 2009 by Vermont Theatre Company
2009 "HELLO?" AN EVENING OF TELEPHONE OPERAS: Goodbye, Darling (Don McLean) (p) The Telephone (or Amour a trois) (Menotti) La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) (Poulenc/Cocteau)
Although this list includes all of our Stage Project proper, Friends of Music has presented many other theatrical tidbits and concerts with elements of theater involved. Included are:
- Shepherd's Play, an important medieval mystery play, fully staged, with period music. different is part of our Christmas Ceremony;
- Semi-staged cantatas by Don McLean, at his 50th birthday concert: 1978 Monteverdi
- The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, re-creation of the full incidental music from the layers production of Alice, semi-staged; and
- Christmas Ceremony programs taking the form of an old radio show, an old TV show, a Victorian and on other themes.