THE PRODUCERS meets the KGB
THE PRODUCERS meets the KGB
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#0THE PRODUCERS meets the KGB
Posted: 8/10/05 at 9:50am
I got my new brochure for the Prospect Theater Company's new season, and one of the April 2006 offerings in particular caught my eye - IRON CURTAIN - With book by Susan DiLallo, Music by Stephen Weiner and Lyrics by Peter Mills (always sharp and good) it sounds kinda familiar yet still very intreguing.
As per the brochure: "An uproarious musical comedy set during Broadway's Golden Age of the 1950s! Follow the adventures of an unsuccessful composer/lyricist team as they are kidnapped by the KGB and taken to the USSR to ghost-write Communist propaganda musicals. Will they choose fame or freedom?"
I think I gotta see this.
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
Updated On: 8/10/05 at 09:50 AM
#1re: THE PRODUCERS meets the KGB
Posted: 8/10/05 at 10:41am
MasterLCZ, this sounds promising...! I can hear the opening number already: "Am I Red?"...
Neither a borrower nor a lender be...unless that's mine in the first place.
mommy3
Swing Joined: 9/8/05
#2re: THE PRODUCERS meets the KGB
Posted: 9/8/05 at 6:23am
If you are interested in that show, then you many want to go to see "Music of Stephen Weiner, Songs of Love and Aggravation," as part of the NYMF Concert series on Sept. 21 at 59E. 59th Street, Theatre B. It's worth it just to see this group of singers. Where else can you see so many and hear so much for $15????
Pulled from Prospect's website: "Featuring the vocal talents of:
Sebastian Arcelus (Rent) Michael Arden (Big River, Bare)
Todd Buonopane (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
Andrea Burns (Songs for a New Word, Parade)
Liz Larsen (Hairspray, Starmites)
Norm Lewis (Wild Party, Sideshow)
Evan Pappas (Parade, My Favorite Year)
Richard Vida (Les Miserables)
and others.
Join Steve and a host of his favorite Broadway stars in an eighty-minute retrospective of his music from 1990 until today. You'll hear never-before-heard music from his most recent work, "Iron Curtain," debuting at New York's Prospect Theatre next spring, along with songs from his award-winning musical, "Once Upon A Time in New Jersey," coming to Chicago's Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre June 5, 2006, and numbers from "The Hudsucker Proxy," and "newyorkers," his off-Broadway Musical Collage, with songs from shows that have never made it."
For ticket sales and more information, you can go log onto:
http://www.nymf.org/index.php?odule=ShowManager&func=display&sid=83
It's always fun to get in on the cutting edge.
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