Theater Ten Ten continues its love affair with G. B. Shaw! This season we present one of his best known pieces “Arms and The Man” which was first produced on April 21, 1894, and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume. The play is a delightful comedy, and an exuberant take on love and war that is filled with Shaw’s usual razor sharp wit. It was one of Shaw's first commercial successes, and when he was called onto stage after the curtain he received enthusiastic applause. However, amidst the cheers, one audience member booed. Shaw replied, in characteristic fashion "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?" So many indeed! The play is as popular and relevant today as when it was first produced. And in an interesting side note…Shaw sold the rights to adapt the play into a Viennese operetta, certain that it would never be produced. However, it became an international hit as The Chocolate Soldier (1908). Leah Bonvissuto, who directed our “sold out” winter 2009 production of Shaw’s “The Philanderer” returns to the helm. Written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice,
and based on the “coat of many colors” story of Joseph
from the Bible, this light-hearted show has charmed audiences
both on Broadway and around the world with its excitement,
energy, and eclectic musical variety.
Theatre Ten Ten • 1010 Park Avenue & 85th Street, Manhattan
(Located at the southwest corner in The Park Avenue Christian Church)
Directed by Steven Smeltzer
Musical Direction by Scott Ethier
Produced by Robert Berger
Lighting Designer Jay Scott
Production Stage Manager Jodi Witherell
Cast:
Keith Embler, Joe Gambino, Dan Grinko, Kevin Kiniry, Hope Landry, Ellie Lane, Spencer Langerman, Kody Louis, Cara Maltz, Christy Manso, Bill McEnany, Robert McMillan, Reanna Muskovitz, Hillary Nammack, Chazmond Peacock, Jonah Rosen, David Salyers, Kristen Savarese, Melissa Sills, Alyssa Sommers, Mike Vannoni
or The Witch's Curse | Open: 04/24/09 Close: 05/24/09
You loved Theater Ten Ten’s award winning productions of The Singapore Mikado, Iolanthe…unplugged, and The Nova Scotia Pirates of Penzance. Our unique productions of G&S musicals have resulted in multiple nominations and an OOBR & Innovative Theater Award! Join our wonderfully inventive director David Fuller for yet another creative spin on a classic. This time it’s Ruddigore, or The Witches Curse! The 103rd Annual Performance of Ruddigore, or the Witch’s Curse, Presented by Murgatroyd’s Hospital for Mental Rehabilitation, Ruddy Gore, Maine. Join us as the staff and residents of Murgatroyd’s Hospital present their annual rendition of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic, replete with their cache of therapeutic puppets to augment the cast of eleven. Running April 24 - May 24, 2009. www.Theater1010.com
STAFF
Adapted and Directed by David Fuller
Musical Direction by Jason Wynn
Brittney Jensen – Choreographer / Assistant Director
Giles Hogya – Set & Lighting Design
Soo Bang – Assistant to Set & Lighting Designer
Mira Veikley – Costume Design
Kate Friedberg – Costume Assistant
Erienne Wredt – Production Stage Manager
Sarah M. Wilson – Assistant Stage Manager
CAST
Natalie Charlé Ellis*
Greg Horton*
Judith Jarosz*
Amy Mahoney*
Michael McGregor Mahoney*
Kristopher Monroe
Sierra Rein*
David Tillistrand*
Jason Wynn
Adam Yankowy
Cristiane Young
*member of Actors’ Equity Association
The Philanderer is a comedy where the charismatic Leonard Charteris is a philosophizing philanderer who believes that only conventional people marry while advanced people form "charming friendships." But when he meets a self-described "new women" who belongs only to herself and is the property of no man, he may have met his match, if not his mate! It is one of the three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898, because its purpose is to raise awareness of social problems. We welcome exciting up and coming director, Leah Bonvissuto (Lincoln Centers Directors Lab, NYC Fringe Fest) to the helm.The creative staff and crew feature, Sherrice Kelly (Lighting Design), Mira Veikley (Costume Design), David Fuller (Set Design), Kate Friedberg (Asst. Costume Designer), Anna Hemphill (Production Stage Manager), Shauna Horn (Asst, Director), Brittney McAden (Asst. Stage Manager).
The cast includes, Anne Gill*, Tatiana Gomberg* (2008 Innovative Theater Award Nominee-Outstanding Featured Actress), Duncan Hazard*, Shauna Horn, Greg Horton* (2006 Innovative Theater Award Winner- Outstanding Lead Actor), Barrie Kreinik*, Mickey Ryan, and Julian Stetkevych* (Northanger Abbey)
*Member of Actors Equity Association
Theater Ten Ten's Producing Artistic Director Judith Jarosz will direct this Steam Punk concept. Recently Jarosz has garnered acclaim for her production of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and her non-traditional take on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was awarded a 2004 OOBR Award for Outstanding Production for producing and directing Iolanthe...unplugged.
The creative staff also features, Giles Hogya & David Fuller (Set Design), Sherrice Kelly (Lighting Design), Viviane Galloway (Costume Design), Aaron Diehl (Sound & Video Design), Emily Gasser (Production Stage Manager), Emily Brittney Jensen (Assistant Director), and Anna Hemphill (Assistant Stage Manager).
The cast includes, Matt Bernhard* as Sebastian, Richard Brundage* as Antonio, Sybille Bruun* as Gonzala, Ka-Ling Cheung* as Miranda, Greg Foro* as Ferdinand, David Fuller* as Prospero, Anne Gill as Trinculo, Catherine Handy* as Alonsa, Scott Michael Morales* as Caliban, Kendall Rileigh* as Ariel, and David Weinheimer as Stephano. * Member of Actors Equity Association
One of New York City's most innovative theater companies and the longest continuously operating Equity Company, Off Broadway, the multi-award winning Theater Ten Ten is known for its high standards and entertaining conceptualizations. Part of Theater Ten Ten's mission is nontraditional casting, to allow for more diversity and opportunities for women in the arts. Some roles usually cast as male will be female in this production.
A master of the studied insult, Oscar Wilde's jabs at hypocrisy, pretense and boring conventionality are as timely and funny today as when he wrote them. A classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest is widely considered to be one of the finest plays ever written.
Theater Ten Ten's Producing Artistic Director Judith Jarosz will direct. Last season Jarosz garnered acclaim for her non traditional production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and won an OOBR Award for Outstanding Production 2004 for producing and directing Iolanthe...unplugged.
The creative staff also features, Hajera Dehqanzada (Lighting Design), Lydia Gladstone and Kristin Raphael (Costume Design), David Fuller (Set Design), Aaron Diehl (Asst. Director), Molly Goforth (Dialect Coach), and Lauren Arneson (Production Stage Manager).
The cast includes, David Fuller* as Lane/Merriman, Talaura Harms*as Miss Prism, Greg Horton* (The Singapore Mikado, Happy End) as Dr. Chasuble David Jacks* as Algernon Moncrieff, Sheila Joon* as Cecily Cardew, Vanessa Morosco* as Gwendolen Fairfax, Christopher Michael Todd* as John Worthing, and Cristiane Young (The Singapore Mikado, Happy End) as Lady Bracknell.
*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity.
One of New York City's most innovative theater companies and the longest continuously operating Equity Company, Off Broadway, the multi-award winning Theater Ten Ten is known for its high standards and entertaining conceptualizations. Its mission emphasizes non-traditional casting and it has gained a reputation for performing classics and contemporary pieces that are well cast and fast-paced.
In one of the Bard's most beloved comedies, human will attempts to thwart the power of love, logic is lost and the fairies (in this case, very swinging musical fairies!) take over. Imagination is let loose, lovers are seized by a ridiculous madness, and the fairies themselves fall victim to their own spectacular spells. Warm up with some midsummer madness in the middle of winter. Director Judith Jarosz, who brought us ethereal hilarities in Iolanthe...unplugged (2004 OOBR Award - Outstanding Production) returns for more fairy antics! Appropriate for ages 8 and up.
The creative team includes: Director/Choreographer, Judith Jarosz; Fight Director, Ricki G. Ravitts (Northanger Abbey); Music Director/Composer, Jason Wynn (Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, Theater Ten Ten; Mother Courage, Jean Cocteau Rep); Lighting Designer, Jay Scott; Set Designer, Matthew Smith; Costume Designer, Rien Schlecht; Asst. Dir./PSM/Sound Designer, Shauna Horn, and SM, Jeannine Myers.
The cast features: Arthur Atkinson* (Fiddler, Nat. tour), Nat Cassidy*, Andrew Clatemen (The Apple Cart, The Singapore Mikado), Devin Delliquanti (Northanger Abbey), Lisa Ferraro*, David Fuller*(Northanger Abbey), Tatiana Gomberg*(Northanger Abbey), Annalisa Loeffler* (The Apple Cart, A Month in the Country), Lynn Marie Macy (Mother Courage, The ThreePenny Opera, Cocteau Rep.), Kristopher Monroe (A Little of What You Fancy), Lisa Riegel* (Iolanthe...unplugged), Gael Schaefer*, and David Tillistrand* (2006 NY Innovative Theater Award nominee, Best Actor, The Singapore Mikado).
*Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association
One of New York City's most innovative theater companies and the longest continuously operating Equity Company, Off Broadway, the multi-award winning Theater Ten Ten is known for its high standards and entertaining conceptualizations. Its mission emphasizes non-traditional casting and it has gained a reputation for performing classics and contemporary pieces that are well cast and fast-paced.
This adaptation of Jane Austen's novel follows the adventures of Catherine Morland, a passionate - though impressionable small town girl, who is perhaps too devoted to gothic thrillers. Young Catherine thirsts for adventure and soon finds it in the fashionable resort of Bath, England. Hosted by Mr. & Mrs. Allen, her wealthy neighbors from home, she experiences her first social whirl amidst the Thorpe and Tilney families while obsessively reading her favorite new novel, Radcliffe's The Mysteries Of Udolpho. Scenes from the novel, experienced in Catherine's vivid imagination, are inter-woven with the comparatively civil but no less eventful, adventures of Catherine's real life. The result is a swashbuckling Wizard of Oz-like journey through Catherine's two worlds, culminating in her unexpected visitation to the Tilney's mysterious estate, Northanger Abbey. In this original concept production by Charles Berigan and David Fuller, you are invited to be a guest at a holiday party on December 10, 1941, given by the British consul, Sir Evelyn Estebrooke, where the entertainment is "The Mikado" performed by friends from the Singapore community. Occurring just days after the raid on Pearl Harbor, the Brits aim to thumb their collective noses at the Empire of the Rising Sun, totally unaware that the Emperor's troops are marching down the Malayan Peninsula toward this Gibraltar of the East.
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