| COMPLETE CASTING FOR ONE-NIGHT-ONLY CONCERT OF " BAKED THE MUSICAL" | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 04:31 pm EDT 09/29/23 | |
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| COMPLETE CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY CONCERT OF "BAKED! THE MUSICAL" PRESENTED BY PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY'S IGNITE SERIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIONAL ASIAN ARTISTS PROJECT'S DISCOVER: NEW MUSICALS SERIES BOOK, MUSIC AND LYRICS BY JORD LIU & DEEPAK KUMAR MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 @ 7:30PM IN THE LORETO THEATER AT THE SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT & CULTURE ARTWORK & HEADSHOTS AVAILABLE HERE New York, NY (September 28, 2023) – Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director; Melissa Huber, Managing Director) and National Asian Artists Project (Baayork Lee, Steven Eng and Nina Zoie Lam, Co-Founders) announced complete casting for their upcoming one night only concert of Baked! The Musical, presented Monday, October 2nd at 7:30pm in the Loreto Theater at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street). Savidu Geevaratne (Your Own Personal Exegesis), Hazel Anne Raymundo (Avenue Q, Pacific Overtures), and Drew Tanabe (Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road) join previously announced cast members Claire Kwon (Almost Famous) as ‘Jane Huang', Lianah Sta. Ana (Miss Saigon), Jason Ma (Pacific Overtures at Signature Theatre), and Prospect alumni artists, performer and writer Timothy Huang (American Morning) and MinJi Kim (Rule of Three), and Sushma Saha (1776). "Baked! tells an inter-generational story which will resonate with both parents and children. We're thrilled that this cast features young artists who have participated in NAAP's educational programs and are now taking the stage as emerging professionals," said Baayork Lee, 2017 Tony Award recipient and a co-founder of NAAP. Prospect's Producing Artistic Director Cara Reichel shared, "We're so pleased to renew a partnership with NAAP, to support the development of original new musicals which uplift creative voices from the AANHPI community." Also announced today are Stage Managers Mengyuan "Mia" Qin and Christina Russo, and Lighting Designer Kat C. Zhou. The band will consist of Alexander Tom (Musical Director, Piano), Magda Kress (Bass), Anastasiya Kostromina (Drums), and Matt Wong (Guitar). As previously announced, the concert will be directed by Miranda Cornell, with music direction by Alexander Tom. The concert is line produced by Julie L. Miller. Baked! The Musical is a new musical about family, failure, and weed. Book, music and lyrics are by Jord Liu and Deepak Kumar. Featuring an all Asian American cast and a contemporary pop-rock score, this hilarious and heartwarming show reflects on self-worth and the question of what we owe the people we love. The themes are born out of the writers' experiences growing up as the children of immigrants in the US. Overachiever Jane Huang doesn't get the scholarship that would send her to her dream college – but that doesn't stop her! With the help of her best friend, Jane joins forces with the class degenerate to build the greatest cannabis edible empire ever run by high-schoolers. Kept in the dark are Jane's parents, who struggle to maintain a profit at their Chinese bakery while coping with their only daughter leaving home. Baked! The Musical was recently developed at the Village Theatre's 2023 Festival of New Musicals (Seattle) and at the 2022 National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals (NYC), and is currently having a developmental production at Theo (Chicago). It has previously been developed at the Den Theatre in Chicago, at the 2020 Chicago Musical Theatre Festival (CMTF), Underscore Theatre Company's Underscore Develops (2021), and through a workshop at Faultline Theatre in San Francisco (2022). At CMTF, the show had a sold-out run and won awards for best lyrics, best lead performer, best supporting performer, and best ensemble. Baked! – The Musical, in Concert is a co-presentation as part of the National Asian Artists Project's Discover: New Musicals Series and Prospect Theater Company's IGNITE Series. Reflecting Prospect's dedication to fostering and producing work by emerging artists, IGNITE Series programming includes songwriter showcase evenings; cutting-edge creations from Prospect's annual Musical Theater Lab; and concert presentations of work-in-process musicals. National Asian Artists Project (NAAP) exists to celebrate the exceptional work of musical theatre artists of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) descent. NAAP's Discover: New Musicals Series features performances of new musicals as readings, concerts, and workshop presentations of full-length works. Single tickets are $31, $43, and $58 (prices include a $3/ticket facility fee) and may be obtained through online purchase at www.ProspectTheater.org or www.NAAProject.org. This concert is made possible in part by a project support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. For more information, please visit www.ProspectTheater.org. ADDITIONAL CAST BIOS SAVIDU GEEVARATNE (Z) (he/him) is a Sri Lankan American actor, singer, and musician based in NYC. Training: NYU Tisch New Studio on Broadway. Previous work: As You Like It, Head Over Heels (NYU), Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3), Monsoon Wedding (St. Anne's Warehouse). For three summers he sang on Cape Cod with "Hyannis Sound", a professional a cappella group. Check them out on Spotify! Savidu is sharp cook, but has never made an edible in his life. HAZEL ANNE RAYMUNDO (Yunzhou Huang) is thrilled to join the company of Baked! The Musical and grateful for the opportunity to elevate Asian stories. Broadway: Pacific Overtures (Shogun's Wife); Avenue Q (Christmas Eve); Tours: Miss Saigon (Kim); Jesus Christ Superstar (Mary Magdalene). Off-Broadway: Avenue Q (Christmas Eve); I Spy a Spy (Sunny). Regional: Clue, Joy! (Thelma). Workshops: Tiananmen ; The Gifted Prince; Broken Ground; Flower Drum Song. Film/TV: Odd Mom Out, Set It Up, Madam Secretary, Divorce, VEEP, Blacklist, Blue Bloods. Concerts: South Pacific (Bloody Mary); Asian Americans on Broadway. Favorite roles: Wife to Daniel and Mom to Zachary and Owen whose love makes everything possible. DREW TANABE (he/him) (Ensemble) is thrilled to follow in his brother's footsteps and performing with NAAP. Recent credits include Grease (Fulton Theatre), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road (York Theatre), and Twelfth Night (Music Theatre Wichita). A proud Northwestern grad. Sending much love to his family, friends, and, most importantly,Kenji. Gaman. ABOUT NATIONAL ASIAN ARTISTS PROJECT NAAP was founded in 2009 by Baayork Lee, Steven Eng and Nina Zoie Lam. Prominent theater artists in their own right, they joined together in an effort to address what they felt was a significant lack of opportunity for professional Asian American theater artists to practice their craft and contribute on a broader level to the diversity of the American theater. NAAP seeks to showcase the work of professional theater artists of Asian descent through performance, education and outreach. NAAP is a community of artists, educators, administrators, community leaders and professionals who recognize the need to bridge the work of artists of Asian descent to the many communities the work can serve, from under-served primary school students to seasoned arts patrons. For more information about NAAP, visit www.NAAProject.org. Among the many productions NAAP has proudly produced are: Oklahoma, Carousel, Hello Dolly, Oliver, Into the Woods, Cinderella, Pajama Game, Gold Mountain and Honor. In 2017, NAAP founder Baayork Lee was honored with the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, presented annually to a member of the theatre community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service or charitable organizations. NAAP was proudly cited and showcased as a contributing factor in the award. ABOUT PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY is dedicated to fostering and showcasing today's new voices shaping tomorrow's musicals. Over two decades, the company has premiered almost 40 musicals in New York City, in addition to new plays and numerous re-inventions of classic works. Reflecting its investment in the future of the field, Prospect leads a variety of developmental initiatives: including an annual Musical Theater Lab for emerging writers, and the IGNITE Series of new musical theater in concert. In 2020, Prospect launched the VISION Series of original music-theater works on film, created for online streaming. In recognition of its enterprising and risk-taking new musical theater, the company has received an OBIE Award grant, and its role as a community anchor for emerging artists that strengthens the quality, diversity, and dynamism of American theater was honored by the American Theatre Wing. Most recently, Prospect produced the NYC premiere of Lizard Boy (2023) with book, music and lyrics by Justin Huertas, and the musical song-cycle Notes From Now – Songs of Resilience & Renewal (2022) featuring a lineup of newly-commissioned original songs created by 21 of today's brightest musical theater writers. Other recent productions include the Drama Desk Award-nominated Einstein's Dreams (2019) by Joanne Sydney Lessner & Joshua Rosenblum, adapted from the novel by Alan Lightman, and the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated The Hello Girls (2018), by company founding artists Peter Mills & Cara Reichel. Additional notable productions include: Kerrigan & Lowdermilk's The Mad Ones (2017); Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster's Jasper in Deadland (2014); the Drama Desk nominated Tamar of the River (2013) by Joshua H. Cohen and Marisa Michelson; Carner & Gregor's Unlock'd (2013); Gordon Greenberg's revisal of Working (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble, 2012) including new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda; and Elizabeth Lucas' re-imagining of Guettel's Myths and Hymns (2012). # # # # ProspectTheater.org Facebook: @ProspectTheater Instagram: @ProspectTheaterCo X (Twitter): @ProspectTheater YouTube: @ProspectTheaterCo |
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