| Transport Group Theatre Company Announce 2018 Gala | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:54 pm EST 01/19/18 | |
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| TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2018 GALA A TOAST TO THE ARTIST HONORING DICK SCANLAN TO FEATURE PERFORMERS SHERIE RENE SCOTT, BRANDON VICTOR DIXON, BETH MALONE, HARRIET HARRIS, ALI STROKER, JEANINE TESORI, KATHLEEN MARSHALL, MICHAEL MAYER MONDAY, MARCH 12, AT THE CURRENT PIER 59 @ CHELSEA PIERS Transport Group has announced that its 2018 gala benefit—A Toast to the Artist Honoring Dick Scanlan —will feature performances by Brandon Victor Dixon, Harriet Harris, Beth Malone, Kathleen Marshall, Michael Mayer, Sherie Rene Scott, Ali Stroker, Jeanine Tesori, Aaron Weinstein, Betsy Wolfe, and the cast of Whorl Inside a Loop (Derrick Baskin, Chris Meyers, Ryan Quinn, Daniel J Watts, Donald Webber Jr.). The evening, which honors the Tony-nominated librettist and director Dick Scanlan with the Transporting American Theatre Award, takes place Monday, March 12 at The Current, Pier 59 @ Chelsea Piers, at 6:30pm. The Transporting American Theatre Award recognizes contributions to American theatre. Past recipients include Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Michael John LaChiusa, Gretchen Shugart, Barbara Whitman, Beth Williams, Sue Frost, Christian Borle, Paul Huntley, Douglas Carter Beane, Lewis Flinn, A.R. Gurney, Liz Smith, Barbara Frietag, Terrence McNally, and Joe Mantello. Dick Scanlan wrote the book and lyrics for the Tony Award Winning Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, with music by Jeanine Tesori. With Sherie Rene Scott, he co-wrote the Tony-nominated musical Everyday Rapture, produced on Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company and Off-Broadway at Second Stage. Also at Second Stage, Scanlan and Scott wrote Whorl Inside a Loop, inspired by their experiences teaching in a men’s prison. Mr. Scanlan co-directed with Michael Mayer, and Whorl was named one of the ten best plays of the year by New York Magazine. Mr. Scanlan served as script consultant to the legendary Berry Gordy for Motown: The Musical, currently in London and on tour. His reinvented version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown has received productions at the Denver Center Theatre Company and the MUNY, directed by Kathleen Marshall. In 2015, he directed Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors at Encores! Off-Center. Mr. Scanlan began his career as an actor, creating the role of Miss Great Plains in the Off-Broadway hit, Pageant. Over the past three decades, he’s been an agent for theatrical sound designers, and in that capacity has been involved in hundreds of Broadway shows. Mr. Scanlan’s novel, “Does Freddy Dance,” was published in 1995 by Alyson Publications. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and other publications, and served as editor-in-chief of POZ, a national magazine for people living with HIV/AIDS. In 2011, he co-founded artsINSIDEOUT, an ASTEP program that sends teams of American theatre artists to Johannesburg to partner with South African artists to work with children and mothers infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. With Transport Group, Dick is currently writing with composer Carmel Dean and co-directing with Jack Cummings III a new musical, Renascence, inspired by the early life and work of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and the publication of an epic poem that made her a star at 20. Transport Group stages new works and re-imagines revivals by American writers. Since being fonuded in 2001 under the artistic direction of Jack Cummings III, Transport Group has produced 28 shows—13 new works and 15 revivals, including 16 plays and 12 musicals. Its critically acclaimed 2016-2017 season celebrated the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, William Inge, with two plays running in rotating repertory: Picnic and Come Back, Little Sheba. The productions received multiple award nominations, as well as three Obie Awards: set design (Dane Laffrey), performance (Heather MacRae - Lola in Sheba) and direction (Jack Cummings III). Additional recent work includes the first off-Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress starring Jackie Hoffman and John “Lypsinka” Epperson; the world-premiere of Three Days to See, a theatrical exploration of the writings of Helen Keller; the first New York revival of John Cariani’s Almost, Maine; a revival of John Van Druten’s classic play I Remember Mama (Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play), reconceived with an ensemble cast of ten women in their 70s and 80s; and the sold-out, all-star concerts of Baby, Once Upon a Mattress, The Music Man, Peter Pan, Queen of the Mist, and A Man of No Importance. Transport Group’s current season has included the critically acclaimed revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, performed by David Greenspan, which The New York Times hailed as “masterful…like witnessing a recitation, a prayer, a madness, a modern ballet…storytelling at its purest.” This season’s Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series, which included Man of La Mancha in December, next features Promises, Promises in June. Slated for April is a co-production with Classic Stage Company, Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke, directed by Jack Cummings III. Transport Group’ s gala benefit takes place Monday, March 12 at The Current, Pier 59 @ Chelsea Piers. Cocktails begin at 6:30pm; seated dinner, performances, and award presentation begin at 7:30pm; dessert reception follows at 10:00pm. Tickets, e-journal tribute ads, and information are now available by visiting transportgroup.org or phoning 212-564-0333. |
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