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| TRANSPORT GROUP Announces 2019-2020 Season | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:56 am EDT 06/21/19 | |
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| TRANSPORT GROUP ANNOUNCES 2019-2020 SEASON BROADBEND, ARKANSAS LIBRETTO BY ELLEN FITZHUGH & HARRISON DAVID RIVERS MUSIC AND ADDITIONAL LYRICS BY TED SHEN DIRECTED BY JACK CUMMINGS III Presented in association with The Public Theater THE DUKE ON 42ND STREET ● 229 WEST 42ND STREET and THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN STARRING BETH MALONE as MOLLY BROWN MUSIC AND LYRICS BY MEREDITH WILLSON BOOK AND NEW LYRICS BY DICK SCANLAN BASED ON THE ORIGINAL BOOK BY RICHARD MORRIS MEREDITH WILLSON’S MUSIC ADAPTED BY MICHAEL RAFTER DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY KATHLEEN MARSHALL ABRONS ARTS CENTER ● 466 GRAND STREET SEASON MEMBERSHIPS NOW AVAILABLE Transport Group has announced its 2019-2020 mainstage season of two productions: Broadbend, Arkansas, a world premiere musical presented in association with The Public Theater, with libretto by Ellen Fitzhugh and Harrison David Rivers, and music and additional lyrics by Ted Shen, directed by Obie Award winner Jack Cummings III and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, a re-worked revival of the classic Meredith Willson score with a new book (based on Richard Morris’s original book) and new lyrics by Tony Award nominee Dick Scanlan, Meredith Willson’s music adapted by Michael Rafter, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall. Tony Award nominee Beth Malone is set to star as the title character. Broadbend, Arkansas will run October 25 – November 23, 2019 at The Duke on 42nd Street at 229 West 42nd Street, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown will run February 7 – March 22, 2020 at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street. Transport Group season memberships are now on sale on their website: www.transportgroup.org. Casting announcements and single ticket sales will be available at a later date. Broadbend, Arkansas: In Transport Group’s world premiere musical Broadbend, Arkansas, an African-American family grapples with decades of inequality, violence, and suppression in the South. Benny, an orderly at a nursing home, delicately balances his role as a caregiver to an ornery white resident who shares a contentious past with his white boss while at the same time caring for his own family as the fight for equality grips the nation in the midst of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Thirty years later, his daughter, Ruby, struggles to understand an incident of police brutality against her 15-year-old son. This unique musical, spanning nearly half a century and three generations, asks us to contemplate the cycle of violence in this country and how we will find hope and create change against the backdrop of hate that plagues America. Libretto by Ellen Fitzhugh & Harrison David Rivers, Music and additional lyrics by Ted Shen. Directed by two-time Obie Award winner Jack Cummings III. Presented in association with The Public Theater. The Unsinkable Molly Brown: This is not your parents’ Molly Brown! Transport Group presents a new production of the classic musical comedy, a can’t live with him/can’t live without him love story about a woman who rejected the notion that it’s a man’s world, even when that man was her husband. Vibrant, progressive, and ready to fight for the underdog, this unlikely hero was a champion of women’s rights, labor rights, immigration reform, even animal rights. The Unsinkable Molly Brown follows the story of Margaret “Molly” Brown in her rags-to-riches journey from the silver mines of Colorado to the heights of high society, culminating in a fateful voyage on the Titanic. Transport Group’s re-imagined and revised production marks this show’s off-Broadway debut, and first production in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1960. Meredith Willson’s (The Music Man) classic score is enhanced with never-before-heard songs from his catalog, along with a completely revised book (based on the original book by Richard Morris) and new lyrics by Tony Award nominee Dick Scanlan (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Renascence). Meredith Willson’s music is adapted by Michael Rafter (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Violet). The production will be directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award winner, Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes, The Pajama Game) and star Tony Award nominee, Beth Malone (Fun Home) as Molly Brown. Transport Group is the recipient of a special Drama Desk Award recognizing its “breadth of vision and presentation of challenging productions,” a Special Award from the prestigious New York Critics’ Circle, and a Special Award from the Obie Awards as well as numerous other awards and award nominations from the Outer Critics’ Circle, Lucille Lortel Awards, Obie Awards, Off-Broadway Alliance, Drama League, and others. Founded in 2001, Transport Group stages new works and re-imagined revivals—both plays and musicals—that explore the challenges of relationship and identity in modern America. Currently headed by founder Jack Cummings III (Artistic Director) and Lori Fineman (Executive Director), Transport Group most recently produced the critically acclaimed production The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Carmel Dean and Dick Scanlan’s world premiere musical Renascence (Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical), Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke (starring Tony Award nominee Marin Ireland) with Classic Stage Company, Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude starring David Greenspan (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance as well as an Obie Award for Greenspan and Cummings), and Picnic & Come Back, Little Sheba: William Inge in Rep, which received two Drama Desk nominations and three OBIE Awards (Jack Cummings III for Direction, Heather MacRae for Performance, Dane Laffrey for Scenic Design). Additional recent productions include the first off-Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, starring Jackie Hoffman and John “Lypsinka” Epperson; Three Days To See, a world premiere theatrical exploration of Helen Keller through her own writings; Broadway’s Lysistrata Jones, the critically acclaimed revival of John Cariani’s modern classic Almost, Maine; Michael John LaChiusa’s Queen of the Mist (winner of the Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical), and a re-imagined revival of the John Van Druten’s classic I Remember Mama which was included in The New York Times’ Top Ten Productions of 2014 and The New Yorker’s Top Cultural Moments of 2014. In addition to mainstage productions, Transport Group also produces one-night-only, star-studded concert events, often featuring the productions’ original orchestrations performed by as many as 60 actors and musicians. Concert titles have included Baby (2012), The Music Man (2014), Peter Pan (2016), A Man of No Importance (2016), Man of La Mancha (2017), Promises, Promises (2018), and Sweet Charity (2019). Broadbend, Arkansas will run October 25 – November 23, 2019 at The Duke on 42nd Street at 229 West 42nd Street, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown will run February 7 – March 22, 2020 at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street. Transport Group season memberships are now on sale on their website: www.transportgroup.org or by phone 866-811-4111. About The New 42nd Street: The New 42nd Street, which recently announced Russell Granet as the non-profit’s next President & CEO, catalyzes the power of performing arts to spark new perspectives, incubate new works and create new opportunities for us all. Through our signature projects—The New Victory Theater, New 42nd Street Studios and The Duke on 42nd Street—New 42nd Street makes extraordinary performing arts a vital part of everyone’s life—from the earliest years onward. The organization also stewards seven historic theater properties on 42nd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, ensuring the legacy and vitality of America’s most iconic theater district. Together with our supporters, we are opening access to performing arts that move us—as individuals, communities and a society. About Abrons Arts Center: Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art. Abrons Arts Center values freedom of expression and creativity, ever striving to provide creative communities with a space that celebrates diversity of thought and experience. Abrons aims to be an anti-oppressive home to people from all backgrounds and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, citizen status, ancestry, age, religion, disability, sex or gender identity. As definitions of expression and inclusion evolve, Abrons is committed to continually revising this statement in collaboration with our communities. |
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