WhatsUp at the WorkShop (Week of 6/14/10)

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

This Week:
Blue In The Face Theatre (of Italy)'s
Ti Ricordi, Amore Mio (Do You Remember, My Love)?
Friday Late Nite: Verbatim Verboten
Saturday Late Nite: Vaudeville Nouveau
No Sunday@Six reading

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SPECIAL EVENT:

Italy has given this country many wonderful things. Without Italy our dining experiences wouldn't be the same, our artistic experiences wouldn't be as rich and there would be absolutely no reason to go to Bensonhurst. So it's about time we gave back. This Saturday and Sunday ONLY, we offer Blue In The Face Theatre Company's production of Ti Ricordi, Amore Mio (Do You Remember, My Love)?. Blue In The Face ran into a bit of trouble with their original venue, and the WorkShop was happy to help out. Enrico Maria Falconi's Ti Ricordi, Amore Mio? will be performed entirely IN ITALIAN. But even if you don't speak the language, a pre-show synopsis will be provided in English. And aren't themes of love, longing and artistic fellowship universal anyway? Here are the deets:

Ti Ricordi, Amore Mio (Do You Remember, My Love)?

Written and Directed By
Enrico Maria Falconi

Presented In Association With
Blue in the Face Theatre Company

Two shows only:
Saturday, June 19 at 6pm
Sunday, June 20 at 7pm

A Special Event Presented In The Jewel Box Theater
Free Admission
Donations large and small gladly accepted
to benefit The Workshop Theater Company

For Reservations, please call: 310- 394-4645

A group of explorers finds what they believe to be an abandoned building. Wandering among the rooms, they eventually find a stage and, on the stage, they meet an old man who starts telling them a story. It is a story about love, about life. But it is a dismantled, reviewed love...like a promise to be maintained like a dream not yet begun. A story looking for a beginning but not finding (and it probably doesn't want to) an end. "But," playwright Enrico Maria Falconi says "if you start listening or living a story, you must be sure you want to know how the story ends..."

The play will be performed in the original Italian, with a pre-show synopsis provided in English.

Blue in the Face Theatre Company was founded in 2003 in Civitavecchia (Rome) by Enrico Maria Falconi. Blue in the Face looks at theatre as a form of ethic-Art which centers on the idea of recitation as a personal strong tool for growth. The Company motto "We live in dreams, like others, only that we live our own" is the testimony of an art-conception as a "sweet revolution" of the way to do culture.

Find out more about them here: http://www.BlueInTheFace.net

"Ti ricordi, Amore mio?" celebrated its American premiere on June 12 at the Santa Monica Playhouse in California.

Cast:

Benedetto Baldini, Silvia Crocchianti, Barbara De Paolis, Enrico Maria Falconi, Emiliano Giammaria. Maria Dolores Mogovero, Attilio Monti, Daniele Petroselli, Daniele Reali, Valentina Simola, Lavinia Trotti, Fabio Trunfio, and Gino Vannicola. Lights and music by Angela Donetti and Giordano Bonifazi

What a wonderful and unexpected opportunity to see a terrific theater company! See Ti Ricordi, Amore Mio this weekend only! Forza Italia!

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WORKSHOP LATE NITE:

Our monthly dose of eavesdropping and mayhem just keeps getting better and better. Verbatim Verboten is a show that will have you laughing and begging for more! Recently, Martin Denton of nytheatre.com spoke very highly of Verbatim Verboten. He said, "I heartily recommend that you catch one of the upcoming performances." He also praised our "awesome cast!" It's a great idea for a different kind of Friday night. Here are some more details about Verbatim Verboten:

Verbatim Verboten
The Words You Were Never Meant To Hear...Uncensored!

Created By Michael Martin
Directed By Jonathan Pereira

Presented In Association With
Quade Productions, Ltd.

FRIDAY, JUNE 18
Bar opens at 8:30pm
Show starts at 9pm

A Special Event Presented In The Jewel Box Theater
Ticket Prices: $10 (includes one drink!)

Buy Tickets Online Here: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/695945

Except where otherwise noted, Verbatim Verboten occurs once a month, on every Friday the 'teenth (except when it's the 12th).

An ever-changing revue of staged, word-for-word transcripts of noted people (and some ordinary folk) saying things they never meant for the public to hear: surveillance tapes, secretly recorded conversations, forgotten open mics, on-camera diatribes, released e-mails, private correspondence, etc.

Over three hundred such pieces, with more being added all the time...meaning no performance is like the one before.

Drinks will be available throughout the evening.

Cast: Dan Patrick Brady, Cecily Benjamin, KellyAnne Burns, Anne Fizzard, Richard Kent Green, Mike Smith Rivera and Tracy Shar. (Cast members may change, week-to-week.)

More Information Here: http://workshoptheater.org/verbatimverboten

So see the critically-acclaimed Verbatim Verboten THIS Friday!

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And how should you spend your Saturday night? How about at Vaudeville Nouveau? What's Vaudeville Nouveau? Just the most fun you've ever had with your pants on. Check it out! Here's the 411:

Vaudeville Nouveau
An Extravaganza of Burlesque Proportions

Once a month, on every Saturday the 'teenth, to benefit the WorkShop!

SATURDAY, JUNE 19
Doors open at 10pm

A Special Event Presented In The Main Stage Theater

Ticket Prices: $15

Buy Tickets Online Here: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723415

Vaudeville Nouveau is a monthly variety show to benefit the WorkShop Theater Company, featuring a rotating cast of musicians, jugglers, freaks, illusionists, ecdysiasts, escapists, sideshow artists, comedians, ventriloquists & A WHOLE LOT MORE!

More Information Here: http://workshoptheater.org/vaudevillenouveau

Spend Saturday night with the rowdy band of merrymakers of Vaudeville Nouveau! You'll have a blast!

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SUNDAY@SIX:

There will be no Sunday At Six reading this week due to Father's Day. Don't get Dad a tie again this year.

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See you at the WorkShop...where Italian theater companies always have a home when they Rome.

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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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