Book by Dale Sampson + Trey Coates-Mitchell
Music by Caitlin Marie Bell
+ Marc Campbell
Lyrics by Caitlin Marie Bell + Marc Campbell & Dale Sampson
Stage Manager Kayla Santos
Lighting Designer Chris Steckel
Line Producer Liz Flemming
Music Direction by Caitlin Marie Bell
Directed/Choreographed by Trey Coates-Mitchell
Cast:
Sallie Mallory Hawks (Theatreworks' Seussical)
Mom Laura Jordan (Cry-Baby)
Sam Dale Sampson (RTP's The View Upstairs)
The Band: Keyboard Jason Pomerantz - Guitar Marc Campbell - Bass Will Hehir - Drums Austin Perez - Saxophone Michael Murphy
@ the cell (338 W 23rd St.) NYC
It’s 1998 and Sam is a nonverbal teenager with special needs, trapped in his own body and yearning for a voice. Shifting between cruel reality and pop star fantasy, this groundbreaking new musical invites audiences inside the imagination of one young man's universal struggle to communicate. While we see those who are nonverbal only in silence, Sam teaches us that in his mind there may be a world that is anything but silent.
Directed by Diane Phelan(The King and I,Here Lies Love)
Music Direction by Lena Gabrielle
Renée Albulario(Here Lies Love)
Alex Chester(Grinch)
Sean Patrick Doyle(Kinky Boots)
Megan Masako Haley Holmes(Pacific Overtures)
Arielle Jacobs(In the Heights)
Kelly McCormick(Carousel)
Maria Christina Oliveras(Amelie)
Diane Phelan
Sam Poon(The King and I)
Celia Mei Rubin(The Great Comet)
Jessica Sanchez(On Your Feet)
Jesse Swimm(School of Rock)
Sam Tanabe(Allegiance)
Jessica Wu(Miss Saigon)
Ej Zimmerman(Les Miserables)
As America’s “Dear Leader” continues to ignore the cries of the helpless while he lazes about the golf course, stroking his penis and planning the next abomination, members of the theatre community are refusing to sit idly by. Broadway Diversity Project and We So Hapa have brought together a stunning roster of talented performers who are generously donating their time and talent to support the more than 3 million American citizens in Puerto Rico still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
@ the cell (338 W 23rd St.) NYC
Book Direction + Lyrics by MARC ACITO (Allegiance , Chasing Rainbows)
Lyrics + Music by AMY ENGELHARDT
Artistic Director Kira Simring
Featuring:
Evan Ruggiero
Based on Henry Fieldings bawdy 18th century novel, Bastard Jones is a rollicking adventure of deception, misunderstanding and bed-hopping. With book, lyrics, and direction by Marc Acito (Allegiance , Chasing Rainbows) and music by Amy Engelhardt, Bastard Jones centers on Tom Jones, a charming bastard-born himbo with a heart of gold and a knack for trouble. Toms expression of his natural self gets him banished from the only home he knows, leading him to conscription in the army, a half-naked romp at a country inn and a stint as the boy-toy to an aristocrat whose machinations make Dangerous Liaisons look like childs play. Because Bastard Jones is about young people being banished simply for being themselves, 100% of the productions profits will benefit Cyndi Laupers True Colors Fund.
@ the cell (338 W 23rd St. NYC)
Suggested in part by the book I Married Wyatt Earp by Glenn G. Boyer
Directed by Joe Barros (Cagney, Gigi)
Music Direction by Drew Wutke (Fiasco’s Into the Woods)
Orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin (The Light in the Piazza)
Stage Manager: Jennifer Delac (Shoes and Baggage)
Line Producers: Katharine Pettit + Joe Barros
Cast:
Leslie Becker (Amazing Grace)
Alison Lea Bender (Academia Nuts)
Jennifer Blood (Matilda)
Hannah Rose DeFlumeri (Bullets Over Broadway)
Carol Linnea Johnson (Mamma Mia)
Heather Mac Rae (Falsettos, Transport Group’s Come Back, Little Sheba and Picnic)
Karen Mason (Mamma Mia, Hairspray, Wonderland)
Stephanie Palumbo (I Married Wyatt Earp)
Brooklyn Shuck (Matilda)
Katie Thompson (Giant)
Zurin Villanueva (Shuffle Along)
Passionate and fearless, young Josie Marcus escaped her upper-class Jewish family in 1879 San Francisco for a wild adventure in Tombstone, Arizona--home of legendary frontier lawman Wyatt Earp. While there, Josie recklessly caused a cascade of tragedies, including incidents leading up to the infamous Shootout at the O.K. Corral. Decades later in Hollywood, Josie’s convinced that she has buried her own past and burnished her late husband Wyatt Earp’s reputation, until her sister-in-law Allie Earp bursts into her carefully guarded life, hell-bent on setting the record straight. Weaving together Hollywood’s golden era and the legendary American West, The Belle of Tombstone spotlights the untold story of the gutsy women behind one of history’s most mythic moments. Join us for a concert of this compelling all-female musical at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
May 10, 2017
Directed by Shariffa Ali
Set and Costume Design by You-Shin Chen
Lighting Design by Chris Steckel
Stage Manager Kayla Santos
Assistant Stage Manager Babette Wickham-Riddick
Featuring:
Kambi Gathesha
Elaine Ivy Harris
This new play by South African playwright Joanna Evans chronicles the unlikely relationship between two children as they navigate their friendship and the tumultuous political landscape that seperates them.
April-May 2017
Directed by Whitney Gail Aronson
Play adapted by Natalie Menna
Costume Design by Kathy Robertson
Set Design by Jen Price Fick
Lighting Design by Jason Fok
Sound Design by Andy Evan Cohen
Prop Design by Shannon
WhiteStage Manager T. Michael Culhane
Cast:
Ivette Dumeng
Jackie Maruschak
James McKinney
Jimi Stanton
In Marty's Shadow, the story begins in a slightly dilapidated Parisian apartment; sheets of newspaper are plastered all over the walls. The living room windows look out to a public square where a parade has recently taken place. The air is drenched with post-WWII dread, and a sense of something, or someone missing. The program includes a quote from Stig Dagerman’s initial staging of the play in 1948: "The people die; their shadows linger—they terrify, haunt or kill us. When we look up, we see them projected onto the walls. They only way out is to turn off the light." The shadow, in this case, haunts the lives of all the characters. The loss of a son, or a brother, creates indescribable pathos between mother and son, which causes the ultimate tragedy. It’s unfortunately an all-too-familiar phenomenon, when a memory or looming shadow causes much harm in the living.
March 2017
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