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The Making of Avenue Q
Gathered before the taping of The Making of Avenue Q are (standing) Pat Cook, Workshop Artistic Coordinator and Moderator of the show; Frank Evans, Associate Producer; BMI's Jean Banks; and (seated) Avenue Q creators Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx.
Productions

 

Musical Mondays

2011-2012 Season



Thursday, November 17th, 6:30 PM at the Snapple

SPOOLIE GIRL

written by musical theater and cabaret star Rosemary Loar and her husband Robert Atwood
Tickets: $18 (Season subscriptions of four show available for $45).
Snapple Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street (and Broadway). Reservations


by Bryan D. Leys and Clare Cooper
based on How to Marry a Divorced Man by Leslie Fram

SPOOLIE GIRL, an original pop/rock musical by Rosemary Loar and Robert W. Atwood, is a sophisticated rock fairy tale that tells the story of a displaced 16-year-old orphan who was raised on a church mission in Kenya and then finds herself thrown into the frantic world of New York City high fashion. Her new support group becomes a Fascist Fashionista, a Fairy Rock Mother (like a fairy god mother but way hipper), and a neighbor who walks an invisible dog. The magic happens when “Spoolie Girl” discovers that she can hear other people’s thoughts broadcast to her as songs. Audiences of adults and children 10 and over will find themselves taking the journey with “Spoolie Girl” as she navigates the waters of environmental degradation, reckless over-consumption and hair curlers.

The book is by Robert W. Atwood and Rosemary Loar, who also wrote the music and lyrics and plays the role of the Fairy Rock Mother. Atwood has been published on both continents, including in the German-language arts encyclopedia, Musik Im Geschichte und Gegenwart and in Ballet Review and Dance Chronicle in the United States. He served for two years as a contributing editor to Attitude: the Dancers’ Magazine. Loar, who has become one of New York’s most accomplish cabaret singer/performers, is an ASACP award winner and was in the Original Broadway cast of Once Upon A Mattress (with Sarah Jessica Parker,) Sunset Boulevard (with Glenn Close) and Chess (ABBA). On Broadway she has appeared in Cats (Grizabella) and Off –Broadway in The Audience (The Drama Desk Award winning Transport Group).

The director of SPOOLIE GIRL is Karen Carpenter, who won a Drama Desk award for the Off-Broadway play Love, Loss and What I Wore. The Musical Director is John DiPinto, who has been the Associate Conductor of Footloose on Broadway, Associate conductor of Langston In Harlem Off-Broadway and Music Director of I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking On the Road for the York Theatre MUFTI series.

The SPOOLIE GIRL cast includes Alyse Alan Louis (Spoolie Girl), who on Broadway has played the role of Sophie in Mamma Mia, Janet Dickinson (Darla), who has appeared on Broadway in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and 9 to 5: The Musical, and was the winner of the 2011 NYMF Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in Madame X, Lennie Watts (Delta Pink), who is an eight-time MAC Award Winner (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs, for which he is also Board President) and has appeared in the musicals such as The Drowsy Chaperone, Guys and Dolls and Chicago. Featured cast members include MAC and Bistro-Award Winner Raissa Katona Bennett (Christine Daae in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway), Glenn Turner (original Broadway cast of Five Guys Named Mo, Grand Hotel and High Society), Jacob Richard and Andrew Deichman.

Under the guidance of Producing Artistic Directors Bick Goss and Frank Evans, and Board President Stephen Hanks, Musical Mondays Theatre Lab is celebrating its 13th year presenting a first look at new musicals at the Snapple Theater Center where the record-breaking runs of The Fantasticks and Perfect Crime currently play. Writers whose early work debuted at Musical Mondays include Tony® Winners Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Ave Q), Tony and Pulitzer Prize Winners Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), Drama Desk nominee Eric Weinberger and Kleban Prize Winner Beth Falcone (Wanda’s World), and Outer Critics Award Winner Andy Monroe (The Kid). Last spring, Musical Mondays presented a reading of The Fartiste, now appearing Off-Broadway at Sofia’s Downstairs Theater.

Single admission is $18.00. (Season Subscription of four shows is $60.)


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6:30-8PM

HOW TO MARRY A DIVORCED MAN



    Last Season:

    THE GOOD GIRL

    Launched 2010-2011 Musical Mondays on Theatrical Thursdays Season
    Thursday, October 28th at 6:30 PM
THE GOOD GIRL tells the story of a conscientious, middle-aged, middle-school math teacher who finally jumpstarts her long-idled love life moments before her mother drops dead, leaving her to care for her father. And then her mother sings to her from a jazz club in the great beyond. Music & Lyrics are by Mary Liz McNamara (a MAC-award-winning songwriter and solo performer whose songs are sung by theater and cabaret artists across the country. Mary Liz is a recent winner of the Dottie Burman songwriting award). The book is by Mary Liz and Arden Kass (an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who divides her time between Philadelphia and New York). The director is Lucie Tiberghien (A Small, Melodramatic Story-LAByrinth) and the Musical Director is Annie Lebeaux (Split Ends).

Veteran Broadway, West End, Film and Television actor James A. Stephens who joins the cast has appeared with the Old Vic, in Sir Peter Hall's production of The Importance of Being Earnest in LA and BAM, on Broadway in Neil Simon's 45 Seconds From Broadway, in Alan Ayckbourn's House and Garden at Manhattan Theatre Club and on HBO's "In Treatment."

Joining him are Raissa Katona Bennett (Christine in Broadway's Phantom of the Opera), Carl Danielsen (Enter Laughing, The Big Voice: God or Merman), Ritt Henn (MAC Award, Backstage Bistro Award Winner) composer Mary Liz McNamara, Sierra Rein, (MAC Award winner for Marquee Five) and Tracy Sallows (HBO's "Boardwalk Empire"). Under the guidance of Artistic Directors Bick Goss and Frank Evans, Musical Mondays Theatre Lab is celebrating its 11th anniversary presenting a first look at new musicals. Previous shows include Next to Normal under the title of Feeling Electric, as well as the incoming musical Wanda's World. Previous seasons introduced Off-Broadway's See Rock City, Cupid and Psyche, Abie's Island Rose, regional productions of Calvin Berger as well as new work by Amanda Green, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. Musical Mondays Theatre Lab is also pleased to announce the naming of its first Board of Directors, including Stephen Hanks (President), Susan Heart (Vice President), Phyllis Weiss Haserot (Secretary), Linda Burson (Treasurer), and Anne L. Bernstein, Jeffrey Liberty Simno, Terry Pierce Feazel, and Brad Bond (Board Members).



And YO, VIKINGS!
Thursday, November 18, 6:30PM

Real-life adventure, with music by Sam Willmott and book and lyrics by Marcus Stevens.
Based on the book by best-selling author Judith Byron Schachner, and the real-life adventure that inspired the book, with music by Sam Willmott and book and lyrics by Marcus Stevens.

Single admission $15.00. (Season Subscription of four shows is $45.)
For reservations, call 212 989-6706 or Reserve Here

MUSICAL MONDAYS
at the Jerry Orbach Theater in the Snapple Theater Center
210 West 50th at Broadway, NYC

Individual Admission: $ 15.00

Reserve at 212 989-6706, Musical Mondays Reservations
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