For a Rice Krispie Treat thatis sweet, crunchy and tasty, with a recipe that is clever, irreverent and fun,look no further than the latest offering at Spirit of Broadway Theater inNorwich. From now until SundaySeptember 30, you are invited to sit in at all the backroom drama and comedyand free-for-all nonsense as well as the blood, sweat and tears that go intowriting a musical for Broadway in the new millennium.
Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowman,with a little help from female friends, are challenged to write a musical forthe New York Music Festival, with only three short weeks to meet thedeadline. The result is the ambitious,frenetic, fast-paced and forward thinking (title of show). The name refers to the space at thehead of the application where title of show belongs.
Not only do these twocollaborators/composers win the contest, they take their show to off-Broadwayand then, to that most sacred of all places, Broadway…and we, the audience, getto go along for the bumpy ride.
Hunter, creatively andmanically drawn by Corrado Alicata and his bosom buddy Jeff, a dedicated anddetermined Paul Lietz, enlist the aid of two show business friends Heidi, abubbly Shauna Goodgold, and Susan, a happily neurotic Jessica Ferrady, to meettheir goal. With a trusty silentpartner Larry, a talented Dan Brandl, on piano, the quartet decides to write amusical about…writing a musical. They drop names and plays like gumdrops on the forest floor, allude toeverything from monkeys to Mame to Marcel Marceau, and to Shrek, Shakespeare,Sondheim, sequins and Sedaris, pay homage to Wonder Woman and Broadway and evensing a crazy and delightful song about Vampires, and dead ones at that. Brett Bernardini expertly directs thismad, musical romp that went on to receive a Tony Award nomination in 2009 forBest Book of a Musical.
For tickets ($30, collegestudents with ID $25, students $20), call Spirit of Broadway Theater, 24Chestnut Street, Norwich at 860-886-2378 or go online to www.spiritofbroadway.org. Performances are Wednesday and Thursdayat 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Discover for yourself the magicformula as well as all the hard work, creativity and genius that go into thepenning of a successful show. OMG! Get your jazz hands ready!
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