Please come and meet Ashley, a sweet but stressed-out high-school senior, Debra and Donna, her snarky stepsisters, Sylvia, her bitchy stepmother, and Harry, a drag queen who's dragged into their drama with glorious results.
Book & Lyrics: Kristen Caven
Music: Michael O'Dell
Director: Eric Neiman
Assistant Director: Cesar Salazar
Starring: George Adamo, Alex Beck, Cassandra Bodzak, Giancarla Boyle, Kim Chapman, Kris Doubles, Kerri Ford, Robert Kalman, Juliana Marx, Blake McCorvey, Susan Neuffer, Sarah Packard, JenMarie Pierce, Dina Plotch, Jen Ponton, Roger Wingfield, and... Sherry Vine!
Band: "Midnight Mouse"
Date: August, 4
Time: 7pm and 8pm
Location: The Playwright Horizons
Located on 416 West 42nd Street (one block west of Ninth Avenue)
We are hoping to amuse and delight the NYC Theatre community -- and get some honest feedback!
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The world's foremost experts on literature that we have been able to cull from the area's finest bars, subway stations and unemployment lines have gathered together to adapt the greatest works of literature improvised live on stage for optimal audience confusion.
"Big strong laughs continued throughout this show, and that's probably reason enough to go see it. There are some very talented players in this group and I'd love to see more of them"
- Steven Slate, NYtheatre.com
Horse Trade Presents A Rising Sun Performance Company Production
Conceived & Directed by Jason Tyne
Featuring the Literary Shortcomings of Chris Enright, Brian Schell, Courtney Boddie, Josh Patten, Kerri Ford, Colin McNally, Sara Blake, Michael Chiavaroli, Brian Carin, Ben Rameaka, Julie Bain Zittrauer, Crystal Francishini, & Josh Hyman. Production Manager P. William Pinto.
Date: Sunday, July 27
Time: 7pm
Location: Under Saint Marks
No wheelchair access. Located at 94 Saint Marks Place and 1st Avenue. L to 1st Avenue or 6 to Astor Place.
Use the discount code "SPORK" for $4 off regularly priced tickets!
Catch Kerri in the role of 'Ruthy' in "The Fur Coat," a new short play about two sisters trying to survive a broken home in the heart of the South. Written by Candice Jarrett, directed by Matt Kreiner. Also starring Diana DeCarlo, Mimi Jefferson, and Anthony Mead. Produced by the Rising Sun Performance Company, part of the Rising Sun Short Play Festival.
8pm Shows: July 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19
2pm Shows: July 13, 20
Location: Under Saint Marks
No wheelchair access. Located at 94 Saint Marks Place and 1st Avenue. L to 1st Avenue or 6 to Astor Place.
"Yeah, We don't remember either…" A team of highly unskilled non-academics perform improvised abridged versions of the great works of literature as chosen by the audience based on nothing more than an unabridged plot summary.
If you missed Sporknotes in the Frigid Festival this March, you are in luck! After a successful run, Sporknotes is being resurrected! After a recent show at the Gene Frankel Theatre, the show will travel to Gotham City Improv.
"I had the pleasure of seeing 'Sporknotes...' If you are in the mood for thumbtack sharp improv wit, all under the guise of a literary round-table, then check it out.""'Sporknotes' is a set of intellectual mockery and literary blasphemy. Set in motion by audience suggestions of both classic and obscure literature, the troupe of improvisers and actors bring the stories to life with little to no knowledge of the story line, guided only by online student study guides."
- TheaterSource
Conceived & Directed by Jason Tyne. Featuring Kerri Ford, Brian Schell, Chris Enright, Courtney J. Boddie, Ben Ben Rameaka, Josh Hyman, Julie Bain, Joshua Sherman, & Crystal Franceschini.
Date: May 31
Time: 10pm
Location: Gotham City Improv
Located at 48 West 21st Street on the 8th Floor.
Click here for more information.
7pm Shows: May 14 (Opening), 15
8pm Show: May 17
3pm Shows: May 18 (Closing)
Ticket Prices:
$25 General Admission
$18 General Admission – Students (16 & under)
Purchase Tickets
V.I.P. Orchestra reserved seats $25
General Admission $20
Call (212) 220-1460
For more details, visit: www.Tribecapac.org
"Filming the Movie of a Musical of a Movie"
By Alan Feuer
Here is how the hall of mirrors that is the entertainment business works these days: At the St. James Theater on West 44th Street yesterday, one could watch a movie of a musical-within-a-musical-that-started-as-a-movie being made.
The new movie, as well as the musical (and the original movie both were based on), is "The Producers," which concerns the misadventures of two con men who purposefully put on a rotten show hoping it will flop. The filmed version of the musical of the movie is now in production. Look for a Christmastime theatrical release.
If none of this makes sense, don't worry.
"Nothing makes sense in Hollywood, man," said Anthony Wright, an assistant on the filming. "The more it don't make sense, the more it works."
Because the press likes nonsense as much as Hollywood does, however, this reporter was dispatched to observe the celluloid snake eating its own tail.
The first man he encountered was Roger Fay, a bow-tied extra.
"I'm one of the patrons in the movie that watches the play of the movie - yeah, the play of the movie, in the movie," he said, not quite helping.
Mr. Fay seemed to realize this and summed it up: "The concept is deep."
Unconvinced, the reporter moved on to another extra, Lewis G. Maharam, who tried as well to set him straight.
"Basically, I'm supposed to applaud the play-within-the-play in a movie about a play that was based on a movie," he said, which seemed to make more sense.
A publicist, Marsha Robertson, provided some actual information. The film, she said, was shooting only for a day at the St. James (where the musical based on the movie was, in fact, still running). The rest of the shooting will take place in Brooklyn, she said.
Then, at one point, Nathan Lane - star of both the new movie and the old musical - appeared outside the theater on his cellphone. Surely he could untangle this conundrum in a puzzle.
So Mr. Lane was asked if he ever grew confused about the musical-and-movie thing. He was then informed that an article was being written. Might there be a documentary about the article about the movie of the musical about the movie?
For a moment, Mr. Lane gave his questioner a puzzled look. Then, he simply took his phone and walked away.
"Rappers Anonymous: Ghetto Waltz Video"
By Ryan Dombal
After a two month shoot and another couple months of intense editing, director James DeLuca unleashes his most accomplished work to date. The self-financed, self-produced video for the Rappers Anonymous hit "Ghetto Waltz" includes visually stunning on-location footage from a brightly-painted boxing gym, a nicotine-soaked bowling alley and a piece-of-shit Long Island "club" called the Crazy Donkey (thanks for letting us shoot there by the way!). DeLuca then took the hours of rawness and trimmed it down to the minute-and-a-half music video you can now download and view at your leisure. The clip features Prime getting his Melville Lanes schwerve on with an assist from a true boss, Frank Johnson. Deadly Aimes jabs and claws his way into the clip next, saying bad words like "motherfucker" (twice!) in front of a young boy known only as Guido. Jamz wraps things up in a purple leisure suit worthy of Cam at his most jiggy. Giving the video a little sex appeal is professional "ho" (ahem, actress) Kerri Ford, who doesn't really need a "flea bath." Dennis Piliere pops by at the top to try to snap a couple paparazzi shots of the crew at a playground. Jamz is dwarfed by a couple martini glasses at one point.
Check out the video:
3pm Shows: Feb 19, 26; Mar 5
8pm Shows: Feb 17, 18, 24, 25; Mar 3, 4
Location: Hackensack Cultural Arts Center
Located at 39 Broadway, Hackensack, NJ
Adults $18.00
Seniors/Students/Group 10+ $15.00
For reservations, please call 201-692-0200
Date: December, 19
Time: 3pm
Location: 158 West 72nd Street
For reservations please call (212) 807-0651
Directed by: Cathrine Goldstein
Assistant Director: Gwen Brownson
Choreographer: Melissa Riker
Original Music Composed by: Gil Talmi
Cast: Tamara Bechara, Ria Mae Binaoro, Natalie Burgess, Chris Enright, Kerri Ford, Sara Haley, Cheryl Lewis, Ali Linthicum, Marisa Maffia, James Miles, Malia Miller, Jessica Milspaw, Rhoda Pauley, Carly Robins, Sarah Stewart, Dwayne Thomas, Claudia Zakrzewski
2pm Shows: Nov 6, 13, 20; Dec 6, 11 and 18
7pm Shows: Dec 19, 20, 21, 22
Tickets $12
For more details call (212) 501-4751 or visit www.theatresource.org
