| Center Stage Capital announces GREEN ACRES THE MUSICAL and more theatrical productions in development | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:41 am EDT 07/11/18 | |
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| Producers Pam Laudenslager and Colleen Lober Launch new entertainment company Center Stage Capital, Inc. To present portfolio of theatrical productions including Green Acres The Musical Producers Pam Laudenslager and Colleen Lober have announced the launch of Center Stage Capital, Inc., a new entertainment company that will present a portfolio of productions including the world premiere of Green Acres the Musical; Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood; Empyrea and In the Room. Center Stage Capital, Inc. will feature an innovative new disruptive business model for funding by allowing the investor to engage directly in a portfolio of four original theatrical productions. This will mitigate risk through diversification and could reduce the risk inherent in investing in theater via the traditional model of investing in individual productions. Center Stage Capital, Inc. Chairperson and CEO Pam Laudenslager is a two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award winning producer. She has served as a White House campaign advance representative, Director of Avon Products, SVP Estee Lauder and publisher of American Benefactor Magazine. President and Chief Operating Officer Colleen Lober has worked in theater for over thirty years for many theatrical producers and productions including fifteen years at Disney Theatrical Productions. CFO Guy Lawrence served as EVP of Tishman Realty Corporation and CFO of Morgan Stanley’s real estate subsidiaries. He is the Managing Director of Ross & Lawrence Public Relations, Inc., and an active theatrical investor. Vice President of Operations Bill Hussey is a seasoned finance professional with twenty years’ experience in the entertainment field including twelve years with Disney Theatrical Productions. Produced by Pam Laudenslager, Colleen Lober and Richard Chapman, Green Acres The Musical is a fast- paced, contemporary story that features the best in comedy, music and dance. This is the spirited musical comedy love story of Oliver and Lisa Douglas. He is a high-powered, Manhattan attorney and she is an aspiring fashion designer and, together, they are living “the good life” in New York City. Faced with the overwhelming pressure to run his family’s law firm and live up to his father’s reputation, Oliver longs for the simple life, but New York and all that it has to offer is Lisa’s perfect world. What happens when two people in love find themselves wanting opposite lives sends us on a journey that is both hilarious and filled with heart. This uproarious new take on the iconic television show is Broadway bound and of course will feature the legendary Green Acres theme song. Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood is an Off-Broadway bound, award-winning rock musical comedy about a self-help guru, her students and the lengths they’ll go to find happiness. A con artist reinvents herself as a charismatic and eccentric self-help guru named Mother Eve. As her unconventional methods start to transform her students for the better, things get more and more complicated for her...how long can she keep her shady past a secret? And is it a scam if it actually works? The show is a loving send up of the self-help movement and celebrates individuality and the power of positive thinking with edgy humor, killer rock music, and a big heart. You are invited to join Mother Eve as she leads six women on a life changing adventure of self-discovery to unlock their true potential for happiness, satisfaction, and love. Divinely and with Gusto! Enter the theater and become immersed in Empyrea. A sensory experience of the ages. This visually stunning show will transport audiences to a world of music, dance and breathtaking physical feats. In the 22nd century, Earth has been completely ravaged. With the destruction of natural resources, water is “gold”. Class division is rampant. An annual competition is hosted by the barren city of Empyrea every year to discern the most daring ruthless athlete. This year’s contestants include Anna, the esteemed daughter of Empyrea’s leader and the noble but unknown Logan, in it for the ultimate prize: water. Throughout the competition, government secrets are revealed, and lives are changed forever as Logan and Anna transform from foes to unstoppable allies when they discover the truth. Parkour, acrobatics, martial arts; set to heart pounding music. Empyrea is a thrilling story of human strength in the face of adversary. Empyrea will be staged in a tent with 360-degree projections and a multilevel set that runs through and over the audience with the central action taking place on a thrust stage. In the initial development phase is the musical In the Room, telling the story of the life and career of Pulitzer Prize Winner, David Hume Kennerly’s photojournalist’s eyewitness view of the historical landscape defined by key events through his lens and photos over five decades. David has covered many Presidents as well as Heads of State, movie stars, athletes and fashion icons. BIOGRAPHIES GREEN ACRES THE MUSICAL Thomas Caruso (Director). Credits include Southern Comfort (The Public Theater; Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle nominations: Best New Musical), Dynamo: Seeing Is Believing (West End, U.K. tour, Australian tour); Brave New World by Bill Russell and John McDaniel (NC Stage); Academia Nuts (NYMF awards for Best Direction & Best Musical); He directed the Broadway National Tours: Matilda, Ghost and Master Class; David Blaine: Real or Magic (Asia tour); Barefoot in the Park (Surflight Theatre), Syncopation (Penguin Rep); Southern Comfort (Barrington Stage – Jonathan Larson and Glaad Awards – Best New Musical). Broadway Associate Director credits: Groundhog Day, Matilda, Ghost, Mamma Mia!, Bombay Dreams, Follies and Master Class. Other Directing credits include: Around The World In 80 Days (Penguin Rep); Over The Tavern by Tom Dudzick (Penguin Rep). Zombie by Bill Connington and Joyce Carol Oates (Off-Broadway), Don’t Talk To The Actors by Tom Dudzick (Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo – Cornell Award, Best Play), Diagnosis (The Play Company), Mimi Le Duck starring Eartha Kitt (New World Stages); The Butcherhouse Chronicles by Michael Hidalgo (SPF); Bingo (Off-Broadway); Jack Heifner’s Earth To Bucky (Bay Street Theatre) and the premiere of Terrence McNally and Israel Horovitz’s Off Season (Gloucester Stage). China Dolls (Ensemble Studio Theatre); James Edwin Parker’s Two Boys (Rattlestick); Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Master Class (TheatreWorks); New World Rhapsody (NY Stage & Film), The Girl In The Frame (Adirondack Theatre Festival). He is a member of SDC – Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Thomas’ 20 minute debut short film, Zombie won Best Director at the California Film Awards and was an Official Selection at several film festivals, including the Cleveland International Film Festival, Boston International Film Festival, New York Downtown Short Film Festival, and Washington D.C. Independent Film Festival, where it won Best Short Film. www.ThomasCaruso.com Tor Hyams and Lisa Rothauser (Book, music, lyrics). Grammy nominated songwriter Tor Hyams and veteran Broadway performer Lisa Rothauser (The Producers) teamed up after Hyams debuted his first original musical Greenwood at NYMF 2011. They immediately began collaborating on Stealing Time, which premiered at NYMF 2012 and was featured in the Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival. Additional projects include Ensemble, a collection of previously unpublished letters by the legendary Tennessee Williams, ‘til midnight, in collaboration with actor/writer John Cariani (Almost Maine) and a musical comedy revue called the 1st Annual Trump Family Special. Hyams and Rothauser wrote Mommy Needs a Timeout for the Nickelodeon’s Nickmom and most recently wrote a musical for young audiences called How We Do with Backstreet Boy, Howie D, which is now being developed in conjunction with the New Victory Theater in New York. Their one-woman event, LIFE. Who Knew? has played to sold-out audiences across the country, including New York’s 54 Below, and Joe’s Pub, Los Angeles’ Rockwell, and the Gaslight Cabaret Festival in St. Louis. The duo participated in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and were twice selected as residents for the Johnny Mercer Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed Opera House. www.torandlisa.com Richard Chapman (Producer) is a veteran screenwriter and producer in film and television. He has created, produced and written over two hundred hours of network series, including such credits as “Simon & Simon” (CBS), “The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (NBC), Disney’s “Absentminded Professor” and the Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominated HBO original movie Live from Baghdad. His career in motion pictures features My Fellow Americans and an adaptation of Christopher Buckley’s novel Thank You for Smoking. Chapman has written over twenty motion picture screenplays for such stars as Mel Gibson, Meg Ryan, Alec Baldwin and Bette Midler. He has also produced a feature length documentary, Shooting the Messengers, the behind the scenes story of media coverage of the Vietnam War. It is a comprehensive and controversial study of how journalists from all media reported the entire war and is culled from over fifty hours of interviews with such icons as Walter Cronkite and the late David Halberstam. MOTHER EVE’S SECRET GARDEN OF SENSUAL SISTERHOOD Erica Jensen (Book) works at one of the city’s busiest casting offices, Calleri Casting, and has written several award-winning plays with her writing partners Uma Incrocci and Nicole Greevy. She has also taught playwriting/screenwriting at Rhode Island School of Design. Her directing credits include: the television pilot “Living in Captivity,” For Better or Worse at American Globe Theater’s 15 Minute Play Festival (winner- best director) and The Vagina Monologues at Galapagos Art Space. Uma Incrocci (Book and lyrics) co-wrote the award-winning pilot “Living in Captivity,” season one of Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood and Five by Three, a collection of short plays that includes 28 Years Later, winner of the MITF’s award for best short play in 2007 and recently a finalist in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Her musical Grandma's Ring had a developmental reading at the HBMG Foundation’s Winter Writers Retreat in Creede, Colorado. Uma’s acting credits include: 365 Days/365 Plays at the Public, Fairytales of the Absurd (Off-Broadway), Catherine in Proof at Barnstormers Theater, New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Television: “How to Get Away with Murder,” “Jane the Virgin,” “Louie,” “Bored to Death,” “Pan Am,” “Lipstick Jungle,” “Chappelle’s Show.” Kirk McGee (Book) is an award winning published writer and actor. In addition to Mother Eve, his most notable original works are his full-length play I’m with Stupid/ Stupid’s with Me (Best Stage Scenes of 1999), his one act play, For Better or Worse (American Globe Theater’s 15 Minute Play Festival Honorable Mention: Best Play), and screenplay, Activity Placemats (2008 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Quarterfinals). His acting theater credits include: (Off-Broadway) Summer ’69, Mindfreak, The Daughter of the Regiment; (Regional) Wild Duck at the SummerScape, Twelfth Night at Philly Shakespeare, Lebensraum and Drawer Boy at StageWorks Hudson. (NY Theater) Love’s Labour’s Lost at Cherry Lane Theatre, I’m With Stupid at Manhattan Playhouse. Film: Two Weeks’ Notice, Hot Lunch and Chasing Taste (nominated for Best Actor at Idyllwild International Film Festival and nominated for The Jack Nance Breakthrough Performance Award at VisonFest). Television: “Are We There Yet?” (recurring), “Guiding Light” and “Sesame Street.” He was also a company member of the American Mime Theater. Christian Pedersen (Music) created and performed his music in the premiere of Walking the Volcano for The Vineyard Playhouse, and for the short films SENT and Fit To Be Tied, both directed by Alex Feldman. He was nominated for Best Music and Lyrics for the 2011 Midtown Int’l Theatre Festival, where he created the role of Guitar Boy in the original full-length production of Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood. As an actor, Christian has performed Off-Broadway in Vieux Carre (Pearl), Eternal Equinox (59E59), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (3LD). Other New York productions include Another Vermeer starring Austin Pendleton and Cornbury starring David Greenspan and Everett Quinton. Regionally, Christian has worked at Geffen Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Rep St. Louis, Cleveland Play House, People's Light, Maltz-Jupiter, Arkansas Rep and NJ Rep. Television appearances include “The Good Wife,” “Fringe,” “Damages” and as Sven the Swedish Butler on “One Life to Live.” Secret Garden Productions LLC. During the various development stages of Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood, the following members of Secret Garden Productions, LLC were responsible for creating and originating the characters: Alena Acker, Ashley Wren Collins, Amy Dannenmueller, Uma Incrocci, Erica Jensen, Donna Lobello, Kirk McGee, Danielle Montezinos, Christian Pedersen, Dan Remmes, and Maitely Weismann, who initiated the collaboration and produced the web series of which the rock musical is a derivative. EMPYREA Tracey Corea (Book) has worked on productions throughout the US, Japan, China, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, South Korea, Holland and South America. As a performer, Tracey was an original Broadway cast member of The Who’s Tommy and an early Broadway replacement in Rent. She toured and recorded two albums with Pete Townshend and Friends on rhythm guitar and vocals, and toured with The Pet Shop Boys and Savage Garden. As the Associate Choreographer for Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (Disney), Tracey was involved in all aspects of show creation, choreography, staging and the creative maintenance of the Broadway production and nine international companies of the show. Additional Broadway production credits include: Associate Choreographer for The Who’s Tommy (including the West End and 6 International companies) and Johnny Mercer’s Dream. Tracey has created and choreographed shows for The Venetian Casino, Holland America Cruise Lines, The Tournament of Kings at the Excalibur Casino, many regional musical productions and large scale corporate events. Tracey’s teaching credits include: Smith Center teaching artist, University of Southern California, Orange County High School of the Arts and master classes in the US and abroad. Tracey wrote and is currently developing Life After Life, a rock musical, which won second place in ANMT’s Search for New American Musicals and was accepted into the Festival of New American Musicals in LA, and the NY Fringe Festival. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and two teenage sons and is thrilled to be co-writing Empyrea, a live theatrical event unlike any other. Colleen Lober (Book) has been involved in many assets of theater over the past thirty years. As a general manager, company manager, production manager and stage manager, she has been involved in musical and dance theater productions including A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Sophisticated Ladies, The Phantom of the Opera, Follies, Disney Theatrical Productions Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the second national tour of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby, The Unsinkable Molly Brown with Debbie Reynolds, Cinderella, Prelude to a Kiss, The Wizard of Oz, Greater Tuna, Dancing at Lughnasa, Oil City Symphony, Petrushka, Coppelia, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Lion King, Aida, On the Record, The Nutcracker and many more. Colleen is the President and COO of Center Stage Capital, Inc. with four original productions in development including Green Acres The Musical, Empyrea, Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood and In The Room. IN THE ROOM David Hume Kennerly (Storyteller) has been a photographer on the front lines of history for fifty years. At twenty five he was one of the youngest winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. His 1972 award for feature photography included images of the Ali v. Frazier World Heavyweight Championship at Madison Square Garden, the Vietnam and Cambodia wars and refugees escaping from East Pakistan into India. Two years later Kennerly was appointed President Gerald R. Ford's Chief White House photographer. His photos have appeared on more than 50 major magazine covers, and he has covered stories in dozens of countries. For ten years he served as a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine and for Politico in which his 2015 photo essay “I want to Be with the Circus,” was one of the most widely viewed stories in the publication’s history. He has worked as a contributing photographer for Time and Life magazines, John F. Kennedy, Jr’s George magazine. American Photo Magazine named him “One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography” and Washingtonian Magazine called Kennerly one of the 50 most important journalists in Washington, DC. Kennerly marked the 50th anniversary of his professional career in 2016 by covering the Presidential campaign for CNN. His documentary-style photography and strong focus on portraiture provides corporations and nonprofits with powerful tools for telling their stories. His images have been used in multiple applications from major advertising campaigns to internal documents to fine art décor – even appearing on billboards and the sides of buildings. His most published photographs may be those appearing on the millions of current Girl Scout cookie boxes. He is the author of seven books. The most recent, David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone, was released in the fall of 2014. Previous books include Shooter, Photo Op, Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld, Photo du Jour, and Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. In 2009 he produced, Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book and was one of its principal photographers. Kennerly’s fine art photographic prints have been exhibited and collected by museums, corporate entities and individuals around the world. Exhibitions include The Smithsonian Institution, The Annenberg Space for Photography, The Portland Art Museum, Houston Center for Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design in Lacoste France, The University of Southern California, The University of Texas, and a career retrospective at Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France. His work from Vietnam was featured in the War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, curated by Anne Wilkes Tucker for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Kennerly was featured in the original short documentary, The War Photographers produced as a companion to the exhibit by the Annenberg Space for Photography. His prints have been collected by the Library of Congress, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian and more, including corporations, hotels, restaurants and individuals. Disclaimer: This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any offer to buy interests in the Center Stage Capital, Inc. which may only be made through the Private Placement Memorandum (PPM). An investment in Center Stage Capital, Inc. involves significant risks, including the loss of the entire investment. Restrictions apply to transfers and withdrawals of shares in the offering. Before deciding to invest in the offering, prospective investors should read the PPM and pay particular attention to the risk factors contained in the PPM. Certain information contained in this communication constitutes forward---looking statements such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “target,” “project,” “estimate,” “intend,” “continue” or “believe,” or the negatives thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology. Due to various risks and uncertainties, actual events or results may differ materially from those reflected or contemplated in such forward---looking statements. Ticket sales is the primary source of revenue which can be unpredictable and dependent on factors such as marketing, competition and critical reviews. Ticket prices may be reduced below projected levels. We may not be able to stage our works in venues at a cost and on other terms that are acceptable negatively affecting cash flows. Our executives may receive compensation even if an investor has no return or we are losing money and we may not be able to terminate our senior executives. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Diversficiation does not gurantee profits or protect against loss. Securities offered through WealthForge Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC. Center Stage Capital, Inc. and WealthForge Securities LLC are separate entities. |
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