WILD ABOUT HARRY

New York Musical Theatre Festival 2008

Written by Susan DiLallo
Directed by Elizabeth Lucas
Choreographed by Joshua Bergasse, Daryl Gray,

Linda Goodrich, Jeff Shade and Shea Sullivan

An all-danced riff on Leona Helmsley....the Queen of Mean

This unique, danced-through musical, created especially for NYMF '08 and choreographed by five of today's most talented young choreographers, begins where the tabloids left off. A completely fresh look at Leona Helmsley, one of NYC's most colorful characters, and the one man who loved her, the many others who did not, and her dog...who inherited 12 million bucks.

Friday, Sep 19th at 8:00 pm

Saturday, Sep 20th at 2:00 pm

Saturday, Sep 20th at 8:00 pm

Sunday, Sep 21st at 4:00 pm

Sunday, Sep 28th at 7:30 pm

Manhattan Movement & Arts Center

Dance Stage Musical

SUMMER SHORTS (Series B) - PLAISIR d'AMOUR

Running August 6-August 28

59E59, NYC

A Terrence McNally/Skip Kennon theatrical premiere featuring Jonathan C. Kaplan (Tony Nominee FALSETTOS), Stephanie D’Abruzzo (Tony Nominee AVENUE Q), Rita Harvey (FIDDLER revival) and Neal Mayer (LES MIZ). PLAISIR D'AMOUR is part of Summer Shorts, a series of short plays. We're in evening B.

SYNOPSIS: Ruth and Sam meet thirty years ago at a Carnegie Hall lieder recital and begin an ever accelerating ride through love, joy, pain and eventual compromise.

"...the prize goes, no contest, to "Plaisir D'Amour," mostly because of the amazing synchronization of all its disparate elements."

- Sam Thielman, Variety

"Plaisir D'Amour," starring Tony nominees Stephanie D'Abruzzo ("Avenue Q") and Jonathan C. Kaplan ("Falset-

tos"), is the undisputed highlight"

- Frank Scheck, New York Post

"Elizabeth Lucas' fluid direction allows the action to unfold gracefully."

- David Barbour, Lighting & Sound America

"as directed by Elizabeth Lucas, the musical proves to be pertinent to our own lives, and soars with the sublime acting of its two principals."

- Deirdre Donovan, Curtain Up

"Of course, the real reason to see either series is for...Terrance McNally and Skip Kennon's mini-musical, Plaisir D'Amour (Series B)...It's the most polished of the eight plays, with outstanding performances from Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Jonathan C. Kaplan as they chronicle a relationship from the desperate single life to the troubled married life and eventually, with their own children now married, to the comfortable afterglow of a once passionate life. Far too many one-acts, even decent ones, come across as ultimately empty etudes, but this musically simplistic piece does for a transient comedy what Prelude & Liebestod did for drama."

- Aaron Riccio, Theater Talk

Stage Musical

RAGTIME

Running July 24-August 23

Cape Rep in Brewster, MA

At the turn of the 20th the lives of an upper class white anglo-saxon family, a Jewish immigrant and his young daughter, and black musician, his love, and their newborn son are brushed by the icons of the day: Houdini, Emma Goldman, J P Morgan, Henry Ford, Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White. They are all intertwined in an unforgettable story about the great themes of the American experience: equality, freedom, race, and economic opportunity.

"the Cape Rep Theatre production, under the masterful direction of Elizabeth Lucas, beautifully captures the spirit and essence of the show...Lucas works magic with this ensemble production.

Lucas moves her cast with great skill as time, place and focus fluidly change from New Rochelle to the Lower East Side, from train station to dock, from Harlem to Union Square, from Atlantic City to J.P.
Morgan's library. The ensemble work is excellent."

- Debbie Forman, Cape Cod Times

"Lucas then takes a cast of 25 characters played by 19 actors with over 30 musical numbers, and creates an intense yet intimate show. Bring a tissue."

- Amy Tagliaferri, Cape Cod Chronicle

Stage Musical

CARNEGIE HALL

Holidays Around the World

Young People's Chorus of New York City

In a spirited celebration of the season, the award-winning Young People’s Chorus of New York City raise their voices in holiday songs from many cultures and traditions around the world.

Staged Concert

THE LEGEND OF STAGECOACH MARY

The Legend of Stagecoach Mary, a new musical by Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore, is the raucous, bluegrass-infused tale of an honest-to-goodness, real American hero. But unlike your grandfather’s history text, this show depicts an America usually hidden somewhere behind stories of dead white guys, a world where Mary, a pistol-packing, cigar-chomping ex-slave finds adventure, freedom and a pack of square-dancing, frontier nuns in the truly wild, Wild West.

Reading of a New Stage Musical

FAMILYMUSIK

Elizabeth directed a FamilyMusik concert for the Bank of America Celebrity Series with composer Rob Kapilow on March 25 in Boston, MA.

Staged Concert