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Posted: 7/5/06 at 9:17pm
If you're in/around Kansas City on July 15 or 22, be sure to check out the new musicals being presented by the Kansas City Crossroads Musical Theatre Festival.
Two of the seven new musicals being presented have book and lyrics by Kleban Award Winner, Charles Leipart.
• Frog Kiss, An Unlikely Romance, book and lyrics by Charles Leipart, music by Eric Schorr, in collaboration with Daniel B. Brambilla. Noon and 5 PM July 15 at Just Off Broadway Theater in Penn Valley Park.
"An adult twist on the classic fairy tale of the Princess and the Frog. The princess must marry, but no suitor suits her. However, she finds the 'yang' to her 'yin' in a talking frog. Although they try the age-old method of turning him into a prince with a kiss, it doesn't work and the zany kingdom unites as they try to free the prince of his affliction."
Cast: Chris Waugh, Lucille Windsor, Bob Kohler, Abbi Miller, Katie Knipp and Chris McCoy, Chris Holbrook, Tara Varney, Cory Dowman, Marcie Ramirez and Lauren Braton.
• Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, book and lyrics by Charles Leipart, music by Richard B. Evans.
Directed by Ernest Williams, music directed by Tony Bernal. 2 & 8 PM July 15 at Kansas City Ballet, 16th and Broadway.
"It's New York City, 1900, and out-of-work economics professor Thorstein Veblen takes his 'Theory of the Leisure Class' to the Fifth Avenue Vaudeville Theatre stage. He announces that to facilitate the promotion and sale of his recently published economic treatise, he has engaged several unemployed actors to present a musical demonstration of his socio-economic theory. He introduces the heroine of his story, Ellen Potts, a soon-to-be-heiress, with an overdeveloped social conscience. Veblen's demonstration takes Ellen through courtship, marriage, and the pursuit of her dream of social justice for the poor of New York — and ultimately into conflict with Veblen's vision of a Conspicuously Consuming and Status Driven American Society."
Cast: Jim Korinke, Heidi Stubblefield, James Wright, Elaine Fox, Lyndsey Agron, Chris Cobbett, Mark Snethen, Dean Vivian and Cindy Baker.
Songs from FROG KISS and LEISURE CLASS can be heard on BWW Radio.
FROG KISS: Rebecca Luker, Michael Winther, Mark Lotito, Tamara Tunie, Nora Mae Lyng, amoung others (see THE FROG PRINCE cd)
LEISURE CLASS: Matt Bogart ("Greed Is Good" on "Lyrics by Leipart" cd)
Playbill Online : Casting Announced for Seven New Musicals in Kansas City Crossroads Festival, July 15 & 22
Two of the seven new musicals being presented have book and lyrics by Kleban Award Winner, Charles Leipart.
• Frog Kiss, An Unlikely Romance, book and lyrics by Charles Leipart, music by Eric Schorr, in collaboration with Daniel B. Brambilla. Noon and 5 PM July 15 at Just Off Broadway Theater in Penn Valley Park.
"An adult twist on the classic fairy tale of the Princess and the Frog. The princess must marry, but no suitor suits her. However, she finds the 'yang' to her 'yin' in a talking frog. Although they try the age-old method of turning him into a prince with a kiss, it doesn't work and the zany kingdom unites as they try to free the prince of his affliction."
Cast: Chris Waugh, Lucille Windsor, Bob Kohler, Abbi Miller, Katie Knipp and Chris McCoy, Chris Holbrook, Tara Varney, Cory Dowman, Marcie Ramirez and Lauren Braton.
• Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, book and lyrics by Charles Leipart, music by Richard B. Evans.
Directed by Ernest Williams, music directed by Tony Bernal. 2 & 8 PM July 15 at Kansas City Ballet, 16th and Broadway.
"It's New York City, 1900, and out-of-work economics professor Thorstein Veblen takes his 'Theory of the Leisure Class' to the Fifth Avenue Vaudeville Theatre stage. He announces that to facilitate the promotion and sale of his recently published economic treatise, he has engaged several unemployed actors to present a musical demonstration of his socio-economic theory. He introduces the heroine of his story, Ellen Potts, a soon-to-be-heiress, with an overdeveloped social conscience. Veblen's demonstration takes Ellen through courtship, marriage, and the pursuit of her dream of social justice for the poor of New York — and ultimately into conflict with Veblen's vision of a Conspicuously Consuming and Status Driven American Society."
Cast: Jim Korinke, Heidi Stubblefield, James Wright, Elaine Fox, Lyndsey Agron, Chris Cobbett, Mark Snethen, Dean Vivian and Cindy Baker.
Songs from FROG KISS and LEISURE CLASS can be heard on BWW Radio.
FROG KISS: Rebecca Luker, Michael Winther, Mark Lotito, Tamara Tunie, Nora Mae Lyng, amoung others (see THE FROG PRINCE cd)
LEISURE CLASS: Matt Bogart ("Greed Is Good" on "Lyrics by Leipart" cd)
Playbill Online : Casting Announced for Seven New Musicals in Kansas City Crossroads Festival, July 15 & 22
Updated On: 7/5/06 at 09:17 PM
