Monday Night Reading Series '10
Dorothy Strelsin New Works Series
Feb. 22, March 1, March 22 & March 29 | 7:30pm
Join us this spring as we present new works from some of our favorite writers
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NEXT THING YOU KNOW - February 22,2010
New Musical
Real life comes real fast. One day you wake up, and instead of a hangover, you have a job. Instead of a fling, you have a live-in girlfriend. And instead of naïve dreams, you have reality. The joys and compromises that bring us into adulthood are brought to life in this new musical. Music by Joshua Salzman. Book and lyrics by Ryan Cunningham. Directed by John Simpkins.
SLASHES OF LIGHT - March 1, 2010
New Play
In an all-black parochial middle school on Chicago's south side in 1967, precocious young Sunny befriends the new white history teacher, but her best friend, a budding young radical, doesn't approve, and the older boy she has a crush on, is mysteriously quiet. In this coming-of-age story, the characters confront their deepest secrets in a thorny struggle to understand themselves, each other and the changing world around them. By Judy Tate. Directed by Melissa Maxwell
THE USHER'S BALL - March 22, 2010
New Play with Music
The Usher invites his guests to be swept into a ghostly tale of love and loss during World War One. The play explores the futility of war and the psychological repercussions on a young soldier and the woman who loves him more than life. By Fengar Gael. Original music by Dennis McCarthy
HELLO! MY BABY - March 29, 2010
New Musical
HELLO! MY BABY weaves an updated Tin Pan Alley score into a new-fashioned story of teen song-pluggers, gangsters, immigrants, and debutantes on the Lower East Side of New York, as they fall in love, peddle tunes, gender-swap, and two-step over society to make their dreams come true via the brand-new art form they re making up as they go along: American Popular Music. By Cheri Steinkellner. Musical Direction by Georgia Stitt. Directed by Cheri Steinkellner and Janet Brenner.
This program is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, and grants from the American Theatre Wing, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, the Dramatists Guild Fund, Friars Foundation, the Edith Meiser Foundation, The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, and the Lynne Sherwood Foundation.
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