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| The York Theatre Company To Present The NEO Reading Series Presentation of The New Musical "Borders" on February 24 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 07:33 pm EST 02/12/20 | |
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| THE YORK THEATRE COMPANY'S NEO READING SERIES PRESENTS THE NEW MUSICAL BORDERS BOOK, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY JANINE McGUIRE AND ARRI LAWTON SIMON BASED ON THE FILM THE BUBBLE BY EYTAN FOX AND GAL UCHOVSKY MUSIC DIRECTION BY ANDY RONINSON DIRECTED BY ROSE GINSBERG ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020 AT 2:30PM AT THE YORK THEATRE COMPANY AT SAINT PETER'S New York, NY (February 12, 2020) - The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director; Evans Haile, Executive Director), dedicated to the development of new musicals and rediscovery of musical gems from the past, as part of its acclaimed NEO Reading Series, an ever-growing, one-of-a-kind program dedicated to helping and propelling new, emerging, and outstanding musical theatre writers, will present a staged reading of the new musical Borders, with book, music, and lyrics by 2019 NEO writers Janine McGuire and Arri Lawton Simon, based on the film The Bubble by Eytan Fox and Gal Uchovsky, for ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY on Monday, February 24, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. at the York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (619 Lexington Avenue, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). Admission to the presentation is by invitation only. Directed by Rose Ginsberg and with music direction by Andy Roninson, the cast will feature Sherz Aletaha (Disaster!, Off-Broadway) as Carmel and others, Gus Cuddy (The Corpse Washer at the Humana Festival) as Sharon, Jacob Heimer (Milk and Honey at the York) as Ofer and others, Abdu Hytrek (Animals Out of Paper at Theatre Wit) as Ashraf, Danny Harris Kornfeld (Renascence at Transport Group) as Noam, Sahar Milani (Seven Doors at BAM) as Rana, Samia Mounts (The Source at BAM) as Lulu, Hassan Nazari-Robati (Oklahoma! at TUTS) as Abu, Ivri, and others, Louis Sallan (Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan at Playwrights Horizons) as Kazim, Talia Thiesfield (Cleopatra at Theatre for the New City) as Maryam and others, Bryce Colby Vaewsorn (Legally Blonde at the Argyle Theatre) as Yali, and Samy Nour Younes (The Triumphant at Target Margin) as Yonatan and others. The Stage Manager is JessAnn Smith. Casting Director is Kate Lumpkin. Borders tells the story of a disillusioned Israeli soldier and a closeted Palestinian man who fall in love after meeting at a border checkpoint. Adapted from the 2006 film The Bubble by Eytan Fox and Gal Uchovsky, this daring new musical examines the borders we construct within society and within ourselves. The show takes place during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, a time of intensified Israeli-Palestinian violence. Romantic and provocative, Borders pulses with energy, urgency, and hope for a more peaceful world. Borders has been developed/incubated at the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, The Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, Goodspeed Musicals, The Johnny Mercer Writers Colony, New York Theatre Barn, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, and The York Theatre. JANINE McGUIRE and ARRI LAWTON SIMON are a NYC-based musical theatre writing team, members of the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, and 2017-18 recipients of the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. They were recently writers-in-residence at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals, and last year presented concerts of their work at The Green Room 42 (NYC) and The Phoenix Theatre (Phoenix, AZ). In 2015 their immersive musical Express premiered at the New York Transit Museum (performed inside historic subway cars) and later received a workshop production at New York Film Academy where it was expanded into a full-length piece. McGuire and Simon wrote the songs for the TYA musical Kibby the Space Dog, commissioned by the Wichita Children's Theatre and Dance Center, which premiered in March 2018. Collectively they have written and produced concerts, stage musicals, plays, film scores, orchestral pieces, choral works, and custom songs in addition to teaching musical theatre and performing arts outreach in the community. www.mcguireandsimon.com NEO (an acronym for "New, Emerging, Outstanding") celebrates songwriters primed to pen the next generation of musicals. Since the first NEO concert in 2003-recorded by England's JAY Records-musical theatre fans and York supporters eagerly anticipate each incarnation. Since 2012, each season's NEO program has focused on a smaller group of writers, presenting multiple songs by each in a kickoff concert, followed by a series of fully-funded readings of works in progress. In addition to McGuire and Simon, the 2019-2020 cohort of NEO writers includes Amanda D'Archangelis, Sami Horneff, Julian Hornik, and Madeline Meyers . Readings of Meyers' Masterpiece (with librettist Patricia Noonan and director Emily Maltby) and D'Archangelis and Horneff's Coming Attraction (with librettist Gray Horan) will take place later in the spring. UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENT: The one-night-only concert performance of NEO14: A Concert Celebration of Emerging Musical Theatre Writers, will take place on June 15, 2020 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (619 Lexington Avenue, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). Festivities will begin at 7:00 p.m. followed by a champagne/dessert reception. For additional information, please visit www.yorktheatre.org * * * The York Theatre Company offers the *York! Membership Program , an exclusive membership package for as low as $75.00-with elite benefits that include up to 35% off tickets to York Theatre Productions, exclusive Member pre-sale opportunities, 50% off on all lobby concessions, 20% off on all lobby merchandise, discounts at local restaurants and parking garages, in addition to special Member-only receptions. The York also offers a _York Plus!_ Membership Program* with additional perks, including complimentary tickets to Mainstage productions and invites to several VIP-only presentations throughout the season. York Memberships can be purchased online at www.yorktheatre.org/membership, or by visiting The York Theatre Company Box Office (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue), or by calling the Box Office at (212) 935-5820 during regular business hours (Monday through Friday, 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.). York Theatre Company Gift Cards are available for any production during the 2019-2020 season by visiting the box office or calling (212) 935-5820, or online at www.yorktheatre.org * * * FINAL WEEK: Currently on the Mainstage at The York is the return engagement of the hit Off-Broadway production of the hilarious musical spoof of all things theatre Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini and choreographed by Gerry McIntrye (Spamilton). The cast features Chris Collins-Pisano, Immanuel Houston, Aline Mayagoitia, Jenny Lee Stern, and Joshua Turchin, with Fred Barton on piano. Due to popular demand, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation has been extended an additional week and will continues through February 16, 2020 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue) where performances began January 15, 2020. Alessandrini continues to lampoon The Great White Way's biggest shows and stars in this new edition, which he directed. Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation features spoofs of Hadestown, Moulin Rouge, the recent Oklahoma! revival, The Ferryman, Tootsie, Beetlejuice, Frozen, the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof, and Dear Evan Hansen; the new generation of Broadway stars including Billy Porter, Santino Fontana, Karen Olivo, and Alex Brightman; exciting turns by Bette Midler, André De Shields, Bernadette Peters, and Lin-Manuel Miranda; and several surprises. The return engagement is presented in association with John Freedson, Harriet Yellin, Peter Brash, David Zippel, and Gerard Alessandrini, with Tzili Charney. Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation plays the following performance schedule: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., Thursday at 2:30 p.m., Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 2:30 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Please Note: There are no Thursday evening performances. Tickets for Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation are priced at $67.50 - $72.50. Tickets may be purchased by calling (212) 935-5820, online at www.yorktheatre.org , or in person at the box office at the York Theatre at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue), Monday through Friday (12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.). Senior Rush tickets are available in-person beginning one hour prior to performances for $20 cash only. Student tickets can be purchased anytime in advance at the box office during regular box office business hours. Limit one ticket per valid student ID and tickets are subject to availability. Student Rush tickets are $20.00 cash or credit. The York Theatre also offers $25 tickets for guests aged 35 years and under. Groups of 10 or more, contact Great White Way at 212-757-9117, or GreatWhiteWay.com . (*York Members receive Priority Seating and Discounted Tickets.) Forbidden Broadway has been a theatrical institution since 1982, when Gerard Alessandrini created the first edition, lampooning the Broadway shows and stars of the day, who often stopped by to laugh at themselves alongside the public. In the 38 years since, Forbidden Broadway has garnered international acclaim and awards that include 7 Drama Desk Awards, an Obie, a Drama League Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, and a Special Tony Award. The York Theatre Company is the only theatre in New York City-and one of very few in the world-dedicated to developing and fully producing new musicals and preserving neglected, notable shows from the past. For over four decades, York's intimate, imaginative style of producing both original and classic musicals has resulted in critical acclaim and recognition from artists and audiences alike. Under the guidance of Producing Artistic Director James Morgan since 1997, The York has focused on new musicals in its Mainstage Series-most of them world, American, or New York premieres-by some of the field's most esteemed creators and has also helped launch the careers of many talented new writers. Well over 40 cast recordings from The York Theatre Company productions are now available on CD, including its acclaimed revival of Closer Than Ever (2013 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival); commercial transfers of such York premieres as The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), Souvenir (Tony Award Nomination for actress Judy Kaye), and Jolson & Company, and revivals of Pacific Overtures and Sweeney Todd (four Tony Nominations including Best Revival) have all showcased the importance of The York and its programs. Recent New York premieres have included Marry Harry, A Taste of Things to Come, and Rothschild & Sons. The critically acclaimed musical Yank! received its Off-Broadway debut at The York in 2010, and subsequently to rave reviews in London-- as did York's Rothschild & Sons. The hit musical Cagney received its York premiere in 2015, transferring to the Westside Theatre for over 15 months. In 2017, Desperate Measures received a total of 15 award nominations (and three wins) that included "Best Musical" from the Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Off-Broadway Alliance and subsequently transferred across town to New World Stages. Unexpected Joy premiered Off-Broadway at The York, and later had a run at London's Southwark Playhouse. The acclaimed new musical Midnight at The Never Get (Fall 2018) received a collective total of 7 nominations from the Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. The 2019 Winter Musicals in Mufti series celebrated the centennial of lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner, with the 1979 musical Carmelina, followed by the musical The Day Before Spring (1945), closing with the New York premiere of Lolita, My Love (1971). Launching the York's 50th Anniversary year last spring was the acclaimed revival of the hit musical Enter Laughing. The recent 2019 Fall Musicals in Mufti series celebrated the legendary Cole Porter with Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), followed by The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter (1965), and concluded with Panama Hattie (1940). Most recently, The York presented the world premiere of the new musical revue Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Musical World of Maury Yeston. The York is the recipient of a special Drama Desk Award for "Developing and Producing New Musicals" and, more recently, a special Outer Critics Circle Award for "50 Years of Producing New and Classic Musicals." |
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