About to start an amazing summer. First up:
Yale School of Drama and Yale School of Music announce the selections to be workshopped at Yale Institute for Music Theatre, June 7-21, 2009
The YALE INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC THEATRE (Mark Brokaw, Artistic Director; Beth Morrison, Producer) announces the three original music theatre works to receive two-week workshops in New Haven, June 7-21.
The three selected works are:
Cancer? the musical Music, Book, and Lyrics by Sam Wessels About to graduate from college, intrepid Sam had a lot in front of him. He had an acting career to start, musicals to produce, and the mysteries of adulthood waiting to uncover. Then for a graduation gift, he got leukemia. Cancer? the musical is an ingenious, funny, heartfelt, and unsentimental depiction of Sam's roller-coaster ride through the first dizzying nine months of his diagnosis and treatment—and how the cure ended up transforming his life long after the cancer itself was gone.
Sam Wessels is a 2008 graduate of the University of Utah Actor Training Program, where he received his BFA. He has written four musicals and is working on his fifth. His first musical,Notes on a Sunday, was produced by the University of Utah in 2008. Rectum! was given a staged reading this winter at the Salt Lake Acting Company. At the University of Utah, he appeared as Bobby Strong in Urinetown, Baby Face in Happy End; and acted in and composed music for The Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Winter's Tale.
Then up to the O'neill Musical Theatre Conference for:
Then down to Signature Theatre in Arlington Virginia for:
Signature launches a new series called 21/24 as part of the American Musical Voices Program – the Next Generation, funded by the Shen Family Foundation. After 21 days of preparation and polishing, on July 23 and 24, two new musicals will be presented in concert in the MAX Theatre, performed by some of Signatures' outstanding artists. The concert performances include The Hollow, book by Hunter foster (Kiss of the Spider Woman), music and lyrics by Matt Conner (Nevermore) and directed by Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer; and The Boy Detective Fails, book by Joe Meno, music and lyrics by Adam Gwon, and directed by Joe Calarco. July 23 at 6:00 July 23 at 8:15 July 24 at 6:00 July 24 at 8:15
21/24: The Hollow
21/24: The Boy Detective Fails
Starring Danny Binstock, Chris Bloch, Sherri L. Edelen, Eleasha Gamble, James Gardiner, Sam Ludwig, Channez McQuay, Amy McWilliams, Margo Seibert, Thomas Simpson, Chris Sizemore, Stephen Gregory Smith, Russell Sunday, Stephanie Waters, and Bayla Whitten
21/24: The Boy Detective Fails
21/24: The Hollow
Starring Danny Binstock, Chris Bloch, Sherri L. Edelen, Eleasha Gamble, James Gardiner, Sam Ludwig, Channez McQuay, Amy McWilliams, Margo Seibert, Thomas Simpson, Chris Sizemore, Stephen Gregory Smith, Russell Sunday, Stephanie Waters, and Bayla Whitten
