TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS
Posted by NYMF on 11:26 am Mar 4th, 2008(More news)
NYMF is proud to present a series of staged readings of 2007 Richard Rodgers Award winner MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS by David Hudson and Paul Libman, featuring Stacie Bono, Alison Cimmet, Joseph Mahowald and Tally Sessions. The seven free presentations will run at the TBG Theatre from March 21 through March 29.
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The New York Musical Theatre Festival began rehearsals today for MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS, which will be presented in free staged readings at TBG Theatre (312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor) from March 21 to 29, 2008. With book and lyrics by Dave Hudson and music by Paul Libman, MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS is the recipient of the 2007 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre. This is the second time that the writing team of Hudson and Libman has won this prize.
MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS is based on the short stories of Hamlin Garland, whose authentic and heart-breaking tales of American rural life inspired such great naturalistic novelists as John Steinbeck and Theodore Dreiser. Set in turn-of-the-century Wisconsin, Hudson and Libman's book and score stay true to Garland's portraits of Midwestern farm life, intimately focusing on the moving and timeless struggles of Americans working in the bittersweet heartland of our country.
The cast includes Stacie Bono (NYMF's GOING DOWN SWINGIN'), Alison Cimmet (NYMF's UNLOCK'D), Joseph Mahowald (Broadway's LES MISERABLES and JEKYLL AND HYDE) and Tally Sessions (National tour of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, THE JOYS OF SEX, and NYMF's THE CHILDREN, YANK!, TIM AND SCROOGE and THE HAPPY PRINCE). MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS will be directed by Igor Goldin (NYMF's YANK!, COMMON GROUNDS and UNLOCK'D), with musical direction and arrangements by T.O. Sterrett (assistant conductor for WICKED, music director for GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!) and casting by Michael Cassara Casting.
Click HERE to visit the Main-Travelled Roads page, and listen to songs from the show!
The reading presentations will be held on Friday, March 21 at 6pm; Saturday, March 22 at 5pm; Wednesday, March 26 at 6pm; Thursday, March 27 at 6pm; Friday, March 28 at 1pm and 6pm; and Saturday, March 29 at 5pm.
Complimentary tickets to MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS are available to industry members and NYMF friends and members. For information about reserving tickets, click HERE.
The Richard Rodgers Awards, created and endowed by the legendary composer for the development of musical theater, subsidize full productions, studio productions, and staged readings in New York City by nonprofit theaters of musical plays by composers and writers who are not already established in this field. Previous winners include GREY GARDENS, RENT, NINE, LUCKY STIFF, BAT BOY, and Hudson and Libman's own DUST AND DREAMS, as well as NYMF alumni shows YELLOW WOOD, UNLOCK'D, KINGDOM and THE TUTOR.
