WhatsUp at the WorkShop (week of 5/10/10)

Welcome to this week's edition of WhatsUp at the WorkShop!

In this issue:

Saturday Night: Vaudeville Nouveau at a special time - 9:30
Special Offer: See The Active Theater Company's Magnetic North for 15 bucks!
Starting in June: RECESSION SPECIAL: Plays Inspired by the Economic Downturn
This week No Verbatim Verboten, nor Sunday@Six

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VAUDEVILLE NOUVEAU:

Do you like your entertainment a little bit naughty and a tad raunchy? Then Vaudeville Nouveau just might be your cup of T & A. THIS Saturday don't miss an all new edition of Vaudeville Nouveau! It will make you laugh, marvel and shake your head in wonder. Here's the 411 from our friends at Vaudeville Nouveau:

Hello Vaudeville Fans!

It's May! The month of flowers, mothers and a metric ton of birthdays (including mine)...what's not to love! We here at Vaudeville Nouveau have decided that the only way we can celebrate is by inviting an incredible cast of fantastic acts to come share the stage with us.

As always we've decided to spread our love of old timey entertainment to you, by building our greatest show yet! This month's show is jam packed with fantastic acts – we have magic, we have music, we even have a mentalist, but most importantly – we have burlesque!

As with every show, we will be offering up our very special "Date Night" and "Brown Bag" raffle - with some pretty epic prizes – as well as the "Booze & Pie" after-party where you can meet and mingle with the cast. See ya at the show!

Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Price: 15 bucks

The Lounge opens at 9:30pm for pre-show drinking and carousing.
The show starts at promptly at 10:00pm

The Line-Up (in no particular order):

The Delicious... Mary Cyn
The Huggable... Kissy Wishes
The Mantastic... Hard Cory
The Man-Who-Sees-All... Patrick Terry

...and of course, your hosts...

The Music Man... Richard Kent Green
The Charming Trickster... Nelson Lugo

A great show, drinks and PIE?!?! Are you kidding me? You're telling me there's a better way to spend a Saturday night? Come down and see Vaudeville Nouveau!

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SPECIAL OFFER:

We've got a really cool offer to, um, offer you from our friends over at The Active Theater Company. They have this awesome new show called Magnetic North. It's gotten raves from TheaterMania.com and the play itself won the 2006 Clauder Competition for Best New Play. I also happen to know the work of one of the actresses in the show and I can tell you she is phenomenally talented. Here's some more info:

Christian Campbell, the star of Reefer Madness: The Musical, tick, tick...BOOM! and Trick, will headline the cast of the New York premiere of Magnetic North, a play by William Donnelly about the perilous space between flirtation and betrayal. Joining Campbell in the cast will be Scott Richard Foster (Broadway's Brooklyn the Musical, Sessions), Heather Lee Harper (Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange) and Sarah Shahinian (Lincoln Center's Picnic at Hanging Rock). The production will be directed by Jeremy Dobrish (Signs of Life, Spain, Judas and Me).

In Magnetic North, James (Campbell) reconnects with Mara (Harper), an old girlfriend, during a period of crisis in his marriage to Leigh (Shahinian). Their casual meeting brings half-forgotten memories and questionable desires suddenly to the surface. After James tells a co-worker (Foster) of the meeting, the casual get-together slowly begins to erode everything James and Mara believed to be true. A charged tale of intimacy, temptation and the shadowy border between flirtation and betrayal, Magnetic North is the winner of the 2006 Clauder Competition for Best New Play.

Now if you go to https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/28435 and enter promotional code Active15, you'll get tickets for only $15! (More information can also be found at http://www.theactivetheater.com).

It's a special offer for readers of WhatsUp! What a terrific offer! Go see the critically-acclaimed Magnetic North while you can! And for only 15 smackeroos!

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ON THE MAIN STAGE:

The stock market has rebounded. More jobs were created last quarter than at any time in the last four years. Could these bleak economic times finally be on their way out? And if so, did any good come of it? Well, the WorkShop writers hatched some terrific short plays. And you can see them in Recession Special, opening June 2! Recession Special is an evening of six short plays by six great playwrights that all use the economic downturn as their inspiration! Here are the deets:

RECESSION SPECIAL
Plays Inspired by the Economic Downturn

Wednesday thru Saturday, June 2-5
Monday, June 7
Wednesday thru Saturday, June 9-12
All Curtains 8pm

A Play In Process (PIP) Presented In The Main Stage Theater

Featuring the plays:

AFTER BREAKFAST
by Rich Orloff
inspired by the play "Before Breakfast" by Eugene O'Neill
directed by Ric Sechrest

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
by Marylee Martin
directed by Katie Braden

KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
by Jonathan Pereira
directed by Elena Araoz†

LOVE IN THE TIME OF RECESSION
by Laurie Graff
directed by Maxwell Williams†

MICHAEL, A RECESSION MONOLOGUE
by Glenn Alterman
directed by Tom Herman†

MY DINNER WITH ROCCO
by Bob Manus
directed by Liz Forst

Cast:
C.K. Allen*, Michael Boland*, Burt Edwards*, Charles E. Gerber*, Laurie Graff*, Richard Kent Green*, Bob Manus, Shelley McPherson*, Patricia O'Connell*, Bill Tatum*, Fred Velde*

Coordinating Producers: Jeff Paul and Paul Singleton

†member SDC

They say you gotta laugh to keep from crying. Hopefully, Recession Special will help you do just that. Get your tickets now!

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VERBATIM VERBOTEN:

There will be no Verbatim Verboten this Friday night. This month the show will be on a Monday. Monday, May 24th, to be exact. And it'll be earlier that day. At 7:30. But, hey, this show is all about shedding light in dark places, right? Come see how it sounds while the sun is still just sinking over New Jersey!

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SUNDAY@SIX:

There will be NO Sunday At Six reading this week. Call your parents instead. They worry about you.

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See you at the WorkShop...where we are to vaudeville what Rolex is to watches.

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Won't you please consider supporting our Creative Home?

Click this link to make a donation: http://www.workshoptheater.org/appeal

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Show times are subject to change. Please call (212) 695-4173 to confirm.

The WorkShop Theater Company is accessible to individuals with disabilities (e.g., elevators, wheelchair access and floor & elevator inscriptions in Braille).

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The WorkShop Theater Company
312 W. 36th St., 4th fl. (between 8th & 9th Aves.)
New York, NY 10018
(212)695-4173
http://www.workshoptheater.org

Scott C. Sickles, artistic director
David M. Pincus, managing director
Anne Fizzard, Richard Kent Green and Christina Romanello, producing directors
Cecily Benjamin, Artistic Associate

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