Special Events
Here's just a few more shows we HAD to make sure you got the chance to see!
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Michael "Tuba" McKinsey, and Nick Verina
Music by Various Composers
Take an unruly quintet of testosterone-laden performers and a brilliant talent on the piano, add in the reinterpretation of a few old musical theater “chestnuts,” and POW! You get a hilarious hour and a half of entertainment! Bridged with heartfelt moments, Balls unabashedly celebrates its own inappropriateness. It’s a parody show from a totally new vantage! Sooo…Buckle your seatbelts and join us as we examine the role of the straight male in musical theatre!
Schedule: Oct 12th, 10:30 pm, Oct 13th, 8:00 pm, Oct 13th, 11:00 pm, Oct 15th, 11:30 pm
at 47th Street Theatre
Music by Onalea Gilbertson, Jonathan Lewis and Morag Northey
BLANCHE is set in a dusty sitting room in the far corner of a 93-year-old woman’s mind. The songs are poetic family movies inspired by the indomitable spirit of a woman who survived the Great Depression, the Second World War and tragic lost love. Told through the eyes of her Granddaughter with piano, violin, cello and soundscape; this exquisitely poignant new musical is a meditation on memory - If we don’t tell their stories all will be forgotten…
Schedule: Oct 6th, 8:00 pm, Oct 7th, 1:00 pm, Oct 7th, 4:30 pm
at 47th Street Theatre
Christopher T. Magician is having a bad day. A very funny bad day. What begins as a typical birthday party magic show ends with dead puppets and children scarred for life. After performing in living rooms throughout New York City, real-life children’s entertainer Christopher T. Magician presents this decidedly not-for-kids musical, revealing what happens when Magic Stops Being Polite, and Starts Being Real. (Oh and there’s magic tricks. Super Awesome Magic Tricks!)
Schedule: Oct 7th, 8:00 pm, Oct 8th, 10:30 pm, Oct 13th, 8:00 pm
at TBG Theater
Come meet Michael Musto and the stars of NYMF 2011 including Andrea McArdle (Annie), Felicia Finley (Wedding Singer), and more at the hit Gay Networking Party, Wednesday, September 21st from 6pm-9pm at Dave and Buster's (234 West 42nd Street, 3rd floor). There's no cover and the games are half price all night will drink specials until 7:30pm.
Schedule: Sep 21st, 6:00 pm
at Dave and Buster's
Musical theatre meets improv comedy at this one-of-a-kind mixer! The celebrated Magnet Theater brings its musical improv teams to play with the NYMF family in this hilarious and inventive weekly event. Vegas lounge legend and host Trudy Carmichael invites you to try your lady (and manly) luck at making up music alongside some of the country's finest Musical Improvisers. Absolutely anyone can sign up to perform. Or just sit back and provide the laugh track!
Schedule: Sep 30th, 11:00 pm, Oct 7th, 11:00 pm, Oct 14th, 11:00 pm
at TBG Theater
Directed by Martin Damien Wilkins
Step Show combines the thunderous beats of African American step dance and spoken word to tell one character’s story to find a unique voice through rhythm. Will journeying beyond the community eliminate the silence? Or will it result in sacrifice? Caught in a battle between the rhythms of two worlds, our hero is forced to uncover the legacy of the beats to finally gain a sense of belonging.
Schedule: Oct 8th, 4:30 pm, Oct 8th, 8:00 pm
at 47th Street Theatre
Adaptation by Sarah Rosenberg
Music and Lyrics by Eric Luke and William Shakespeare
Fresh from their film debut in “Shakespeare High,” the students of Los Angeles’s PUC schools are here to help you conquer your “Shakesfear” with their rollicking musical adaptation of The Tempest! Full of magic, romance, and revenge, this interactive adventure mixes Frankie and Annette-style beach party songs with the Bard’s original text. This surfboard and sun interpretation is a perfect intro to Shakespeare for kids and offers an educational blast for the entire family!
Schedule: Oct 7th, 5:00 pm, Oct 8th, 1:00 pm, Oct 9th, 3:00 pm
at The Theater at St. Clements
