| "Cyberbabies: A Musical Dot.Comedy" at TNC - May 31-June 17 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:56 am EDT 05/25/18 | |
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| Theater for the New City, Crystal Field Executive Director, Presents Cyberbabies: A Musical Dot.Comedy Book, Music and Lyrics by Craig Silver Directed by Lissa Moira Choreographed by J. Alan Hanna May 31-June 17, 2018 - 12 Performances Thursday-Saturday @ 8pm & Sunday @ 3pm Community Space / Theater for the New City 155 First Avenue (bet. 9th and 10th Streets), New York City 10003 Tickets are $18, $15 for Students and Seniors Visit smarttix.comor call 212-868-4444 Direct ticketing link: https://www.smarttix.com/Modules/Sales/SalesMainTabsPage.aspx?ControlState=1&SalesEventId=7626&DC= For more information, visit: http://theaterforthenewcity.net/?vh_show=cyberbabies-a-musical-dot-comedy Runtime: Two Hours with one 10-minute intermission Theater for the New City, Crystal Field, Executive Director, presents Cyberbabies: A Musical Dot.Comedy, a world premiere musical with book, music and lyrics by Craig Silver. Lissa Moira directs a cast of 14, including William Broderick, Jef Canter, Selear Duke, Katie Fann, Becca Gottlieb, Jordan Griffey, Zander Kirby, David “Zen” Mansley, Michael Maricondi, Olivia Medley, James Parks, Johnathan Fox Powers, Dani Westhead, and Amanda Yachechak. Performances will be staged at the Community Space at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue (bet. 9th and 10th Streets), New York, NY 10003 from May 31-June 17, 2018. Manhattan at the turn of the Millennium—it’s the red-hot center of the exploding new phenomenon of the Internet. Brash young Web pioneers vie to stake their claim. With the sudden new wealth and lavish launch parties, it’s the Great Gatsby on steroids. You might think of it as a La La Land for New York. It’s got great characters, vivacious original songs and blazing choreography. Most of the cast is made up of, appropriately, Millennials, so the whole project has a youthful, Spring Awakening zing. Its highly hummable numbers include “Manhattanite In The Manhattan Night,” “Virtual Virgins” and “Eaten By the Internet.” Cyberbabies is presented by Theater for the New City. Musical Director/Pianist: Nevada Lozano; Choreographer: J. Alan Hanna; Set Designer: Mark Marcante; Co-Set Designer, Props & Costume Coordinator: Lytza Colon; Lighting Designer: Alex Bartenieff;Stage Manager:Selear Duke; Marketing: Joan Pelzer; Publicity: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Tickets are $18, $15 for students and seniors. They can be purchased by visiting SmartTix.com. For more information, visit: TheaterForTheNewCity.net Twelve performances will be staged from May 31-June 17 on the following schedule: Thursday-Saturday at 8pm & Sunday at 3pm. Runtime is two hours with one 10-minute intermission. Craig Silver (book, music & lyrics) - Theater credits include his play The Oven, presented at the 13th Street Repertory, and his one-man show, God In A Box, at NYC’s Dream Up Festival. A singer-songwriter besides playright, Silver’s topical songs have appeared on NPR, CNN, WBAI, WFUV and other stations across the country. Billboard magazine said Silver performs “in the best Phil Ochs tradition.” Other playwriting credits include Harmony of the Sticks at the Fusion Arts Festival, Babyman--a radio drama for Collaborative Projects--and a teledrama, Motion Sickness. His one-act play, The Oven, was presented at the 13th Street Repertory Theater. He performed his monologue-with-music, God In A Box, at the PAN Festival in Paris and at the Theater For The New City’s Dream Up Festival. Lissa Moira (director) AEA, SAG, AFTRA is also a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, poet and artist. She more recently directed Grand Theft Musical by Robert Sickinger & Lissa Moira and Mira Spektor’s Lady of the Castle and Seymour’s Barab’s From Oy to Vey and In Questionable Taste. Other recent directing credits include The Elephant Pen, Speakeasy: John and Jane’s Adventures in the Wonderland, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,and a 35-person cast in Nicholas Nickleby: A New Musical at Theatre for the New City, another adaptation by the late Robert Sickinger. Out of 5,000 world-wide submissions, Ms. Moira’s play TIME IT IS was chosen as a top ten finalist in the prestigious Chesterfield/Paramount screenwriting competition. Ms. Moira’s 2007 play Before God Was Invented was an American nominee for the Susan Brownell-Smith International Playwrights Award. Ms. Moira co-wrote “Dead Canaries,” a feature film starring Charles Durning, Dan Lauria, Dee Wallace Stone and Joel Higgins. With co-writer Richard West, Lissa’s well known for Sexual Psychobabble and The Best S*x of the XX Century Sale. Both ran over a year and each enjoyed critical and popular success. The Moira/West team’s DaDa noir musical, Who Murdered Love? featured Broadway’s Luba Mason and Tracy McDowell as well as William Broderick. It originated at Theater for the New City and ran at the Players Theatre as part of the 2012 FringeNYC (Ms. Moira directed as well). Other directing/co-writing credits include Sirens Heart: Norma Jeane and Marilyn in Purgatory (which enjoyed a 14-month Off-Broadway run at The Actor’s Temple), and Tom Jones a new musical (Bloomberg Radio declared the directing “beautiful, fine and fresh”). Of her directing work on Cocaine Dreams, a play about Freud at The Kraine Theatre, the New York Post raved “inspired.” Theater for the New City is a Pulitzer Prize winning cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York’s most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC’s Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Vin Diesel, Oscar Nuñez, Laurence Holder, Romulus Linney and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and COBU, the Japanese women's drumming and dance group. TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company’s 1997 production of BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 42 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award. Meet the Cast William Broderick (Kyle Smiley) - This is Bill's fifth show with director Lissa Moira, following Grand Theft Musical, Rappaccini's Daughter, Nicholas Nickleby and Who Murdered Love. Other credits can be found at william-broderick.squarespace.com Jef Canter (Joe Deaker/Detective) played Jacopo Bombasto in Giovanni the Fearless and Don Mangemore in Grand Theft Musical. Off-Broadway: Stand Tall: A Rock Musical, National Tour: Peter Pan: The Show Regional: Watson (Dr. Watson), It’s A Wonderful Life (Clarence), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nick Bottom), Sanders Family Christmas (Burl Sanders), The Wizard of Oz (Wizard/Prof. Marvel), Damn Yankees (Van Buren), Around the World in 80 Days (21 different roles!). www.jefcanter.com Selear Duke (Patron 3/Ensemble) – she is excited to debut in her first musical. She started singing in festival choirs in Jamaica as a young girl and got her training at MTC. Kaitie Fann (Patron 2/Ensemble) is a graduate of AMDA NY and is a permanent cast member of the Let’s Broadway Cabaret with Marquee Productions. Becca Gottlieb (Gwen) is returning to Theatre for a New City for her third show. She was last seen in Grand Theft Musical as Sugar Cohen, and Fanny Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby. Other credits include Reno in Anything Goes, Inga in Young Frankenstein, Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone, The Wedding Singer National Tour and Damn Yankees National Tour. www.beccagottlieb.com. Jordan Griffey (Barry) hails from the San Francisco Bay Area and has been doing theater ever since his cousins first forced him to perform shows in their living room. An NYU Musical Theatre Graduate, Jordan loves splitting his time between the stage and the fast-paced e-commerce tech world. Some of his past favorite roles include Radames in Aida, Bobby Strong in Urinetown, and Jesus in Godspell. Zander Kirby (Jeremy)- NY Theatre credits include: The Lion King, the Witch and the Wardrobe (St. Luke’s Theatre), Eternal Killer (Manhattan Rep), and Fuente Ovejung (NY Fringe), Regional theatre credits include:nOh, Gastronomy! and Hero Dad (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night (International Shakespeare Center), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oregon Adventure Theatre), and Licking Batteries (Playwrights West). Zander has a Master’s of Classical Acting from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and is a member of SAG-AFTRA. www.zanderkirby.com David "Zen" Mansley (Miles Gainer, The Love Robot, Doctor Robot, and Spirit in the Computer) is a dynamic and versatile actor, director and designer. His production of Macbeth, in which he starred at the Celtic Arts Center in Los Angeles, received a rave review from the LA Times, was extended twice and ran for two and a half months to packed houses. His production of A Christmas Carol - for which he directs, designs and plays both Scrooge and the ghost of Jacob Marley has played at Theater for the New City during seven different Christmas seasons. Zen has played a great variety of characters in a myriad of NYC productions, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, King Claudius in Hamlet, Doctor Frankenstein, Captain Hook, Quasimodo, Sweeney Todd, Ulysses S. Grant, Bernie Sanders, King Phillip of Spain, The Elizabethan wizard Dr. John Dee, the insane Pope Stephan VI, a zealot southern Preacher, a messianic king of the cavemen, a mad hypnotist, a drunken Ghost Tour Guide for The Ammoralists Theater Company and an English time traveler in Crystal Field's annual STREET THEATER. He also creates TNC's Halloween HOUSE OF HORRORS for the East Village Halloween Masquerade Ball. He’s known internationally for his character voice work on such cartoon series as TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, CHAOTIC, ONE PIECE and SPEED RACER: THE NEXT GENERATION Michael Maricondi (Gino/Patron) - BFA NYU/Tisch, Master's Equivalent: Acting International (Paris, France) is a bi-lingual (English/French) actor, composer, and educator. Favorite stage: Cupid & Psyche, The Good Person of New Haven, Being Audrey, Waiting for the G, À La Recherche de La Petite Souris (France and Morocco). Film: "Dracula Reborn," "The Landlady 3-D," "Pleased to Meet You!" He was recently seen at Symphony Space as the title role in My Life With Pablo Neruda, and performs with Sharon Klein Productions' Who Loves You?, a tribute to Frankie Valli. Michael is the founder and creative director of Trust Your Gut Productions. www.michaelmaricondi.com. Olivia Medley (Ensemble) is originally from Atlanta, GA. Olivia received her BFA from Emerson College in 2017. Most recently Olivia performed in cabarets at The Duplex, Stonewall Inn, and also has her own web series- The oMg Show. Olivia has also written, produced, and performed in her own one woman show called The Things I'm Kinda Bad At last year. James Parks (Toby) was most recently seen in Pumpkin Spiced Musical and a one-man opera, Night of the Secretary-General (also directed by Lissa Moira). In NYC, James is sought after for collaborating on new musicals and demo recordings. James has performed in numerous regional theaters, a national tour and voiced numerous characters in English Crayon, a Korean educational program that teaches English through story, song, and dance. MM: NYU Steinhardt; BM: Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins. www.thejamesparks.com Jonathan Fox Powers (Jay)- Credits here include Mr. Darcy in a musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, as well as Blifil in Tom Jones, Smike in Nicholas Nickleby, and most recently Jacks Bagelman in Grand Theft Musical. Earlier this year, he portrayed Giorgio in Passion with Utopia Opera and sang in The Enchantress with the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE. Other companies include Amore Opera, the Light Opera of New York, Oswego Opera, the Ridgewood Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and the Blue Hill Troupe. Dani Westhead (Mattie) - Regional: (Ariel) Disney’s The Little Mermaid, (Ali u/s Sophie) MAMMA MIA! Northern Stage. (Johanna) Sweeney Todd, at the FINGER LAKES MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL / Merry Go Round PLAYHOUSE. (Elle Woods) Legally Blonde, (Black Boy Soloist / Hare Krishna Descant) HAIR at New London Barn Playhouse, (Amber) Hairspray, (Cinderella) Cinderella at Surflight Theatre, (Columbia) Rocky Horror Picture Show, at Woodbine Dinner Theatre, (Miss Sandra) All Shook Up, (Sharpay) High School Musical 2 at Encore! At the Point. Favorite additional credits include; (Dot) Sunday in the Park with George, (Laurey) Oklahoma! and (Miriam) Summer of 42. Dani performed aboard The Grand American Queen, where she débuted her Solo show, A Little Bit of Love. She got her princess training working for Disney playing Ariel, Aurora, Snow White & The Blue Fairy onboard with Disney Cruise Lines. Dani has a BFA in musical theatre from the Hartt School of Music. Amanda Yachechak (Giselle) is a stage and film actress, a lyric coloratura soprano, and a classical ballerina and Irish dancer. She is a graduate of Franklin University Switzerland and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Off-Broadway/NY: Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth) and Nicholas Nickleby at TNC, Phantom of the Opera (Meg), Freckleface Strawberry, Angelina Ballerina, Three Sisters (Irina), Taming of the Shrew (Kate). Regional: Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), West Side Story (Maria), My Fair Lady, The King and I (Tuptim), August: Osage County (Johnna), Nunsense (Sister Leo), Bittersweet *starring Siân Phillips. Opera: The Lady of the Castle (Lena), Hansel and Gretel (Gretel), Rappaccini’s Daughter, Les Contes D’Hoffman (Olympia), The Magic Flute (Pamina/Queen of the Night cover). Film/TV: "Rebecca," "Getting Caught," "Glass Ballerinas," "Monumental Mysteries," "Cancer and Cake," "Last Days of Simon." www.amandayachechak.com. |
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