Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford will perform selected songs from the musicals they have written over the years from their first New York show in 1967 to the present in the cabaret at 59E59 Sunday, December 10th at 7:30 pm and Tuesdays, December 12th and 19th at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $25.00. They may be purchased through Ticket Central by phone (212-279-4200) or on line at TicketCentral.com. There is also a one-drink minimum.
PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, has joined forces with prolific cabaret producer Jamie deRoy on a new CD celebrating songwriters from the worlds of Broadway, pop, country and cabaret. But this new album has a twist: the songwriters are also the performers. Entitled If I Sing, after the Maltby/Shire song from Closer Than Ever, the album features 16 songwriters taking on their own material, some of it familiar, some totally unknown, in new performances and new arrangements. The theatre composers are some of Broadway’s finest, including Stephen Schwartz, Maury Yeston, Richard Maltby and David Shire, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marz, Andrew Lippa, Lucy Simon, and Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford, while the pop songwriters include Julie Gold and Larry Gatlin. The album is in the stores and on the web at psclassics.com. Jamie is also producing a Holiday Show on Wednesday, December 6th at 8 pm at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street. Reservations at 212-206-0440.
Cherry Lane Theatre’s annual Mentor Project Announcement Night will be on Monday, December 4th at 7 pm. Each finalist and mentor will read selections from their play. These include: The Secret Agenda of Trees by Colin McKenna; Lynn Nottage, Mentor; Topsy Turvy Mouse by Peter Gil-Sheridan; Michael Weller, Mentor; and 100 Saints You Should Know by Kate Fodor; Jules Feiffer, Mentor. Admission is free. Reservations at 212-989-2020, ext. 21 or slawrence@cherrylanetheatre.org.
Shirley Lauro’s latest play, All Through the Night, is a 2006 Joseph Jefferson Award nominee for “Best New Play of the Year” in Chicago where it received rave reviews, and then played in San Francisco. The play will be presented here in two consecutive evenings of theatre. Will Pomerantz will direct Ensemble Studio Theater’s Project 35; 549 W. 52nd Street, December 10 at 3 pm; admission $10 contribution, and at The Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street, December 11, 7 pm., complimentary admission, RSVP to 212-253-9983.
Women at the Barricades: Playwright’s Political Visions, the panel discussion sponsored by The League in October in association with Marymount Manhattan College, will be published in January by The Dramatists Guild’s magazine, The Dramatist. The article has been edited by League members, Alexis Greene, moderator, and Shirley Lauro, panel participant.
The following ticket offer comes from The Women’s Project, Producing Director, Julie Crosby. Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen by Kathryn Walat, directed by Loretta Greco. The World Premiere is January 12 – February 11. When uber-popular Vickie Martin joins the all-male math team, chaos theory becomes the rule at Longwood High School. Can this goddess of Pi possibly make the mathletes victorious? Totally. Just $30 for League members! For your specially-priced tickets, click BroadwayOffers.com, or call 212-947-8844 and mention code VM4LPTW. Valid for all performances except January 21. The League is also organizing a theatre party for the show—date will be announced soon.
AMAS Musical Theatre, Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director, cordially invites you to a Staged Reading of Wanda’s World, book by Eric H. Weinberger, music and lyrics by Beth Falcone, directed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett. The reading will be Wednesday, December 13 at 6 pm and Thursday, December 14 at 1 and 5 pm at Ripley Greer Studios, 520 Eighth Avenue. Please rsvp to Amas at 212-563-2565 or amasevents@aol.com.
On December 4th at 6:30 pm Caridad Svich will hold a public conversation with scholar Marvin Carlson on “Languages at Play in The Theatre”at the Segal Center at CUNY, which will feature excerpts directed by Daniel Banks from her play The Tropic of X. On December 11th at 7 pm there will be simultaneous readings of her music-theatre adaptation of Garcia Lorca’s Yerma with music by Elizabeh Swados, directed by Kay Matschullat at CSC in New York City, and her commissioned adaptation/translation of Spanish Golden Age comedy A Little Betrayal Among Friends directed by Jean Randich at Airmid Theatre at the Babylon Public Library in Babylon, NY.
Lee Hunkins writes that her second career, modeling, has finally paid off. She is in a Merck Pharmaceutical ad in the November 6th issue of Time Magazine and the November issue of Reader’s Digest, and will also, she believes, be in the December issues of Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Day, and Prevention. She also recently became a member of New York Women in Film and Television.
Paige Price was recently elected First Vice President of Actor’s Equity Association. She has served on Equity Council as a Principal Eastern Councillor since 2001 and as Vice-Chair of the Eastern Regional Board from 2005-2006.