‘Disaster! A 1970’s Disaster Movie Musical’ Begins Previews

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Karen Nowosad
Photo of the show's cast at a recent rehearsal.

Photo of the show’s cast at a recent rehearsal.

A show with a unique title, Disaster! A 1970’s Disaster Movie Musical, began previews last night at St. Luke’s Theatre, 308 W. 46th Street, New York City.  Written by Seth Rudestsky and John Plotnick, the show is a take off on the action that was famous in big movies of the 1970’s where a disaster hits and survival is the plot line.

According to the press release, the year is 1979 when:

All the hottest New York City A-Listers are putting on their platform shoes and polyester disco shirts and heading to the grand opening of Manhattan’s first floating casino and discotheque. Little do they know that the pier built to house the huge boat was drilled into the center of a dangerous and unstable fault-line.

The show uses songs from the 1970’s such as Hot Stuff, I Am Woman, Knock On Wood, Daybreak, and Signed, Sealed Delivered.  The cast includes Mary Testa, Tom Riis Farrell, Michele Ragusa, Jennifer Simard, Seth Rudetsky and others.

For more information, visit the show’s website, www.disastermusical.com.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes – 2013 Edition – Oct. 28

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Karen Nowosad

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The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present its fourth annual Something Wicked This Way Comes  on Monday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m.   The event is only given on one night and it is a great way to kick off Halloween week.  

Appropriately titled from a line in Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth, Something Wicked This Way Comes is described from press notes as:

a 90-minute delightfully bone-chilling evening, featuring esteemed actors from The Shakespeare Theatre company as well as guest artists.  “We are thrilled to present the fourth annual Something Wicked This Way Comes. Audiences can expect . . . a brand new line-up of classic ghost stories and tales of horror,” said Artistic Director Bonnie J. Monte. 

Directed by Brian B. Crowe, Something Wicked This Way Comes is a ghoulish collage of dramatic readings from the classic canon of the macabre including Shakespeare, Poe, Stoker, and Lovecraft. “The stories come alive in front of an audience. We combine talented storytelling and haunting music to create a wonderfully spooky atmosphere,” says Crowe.

Composer, musician, and one of the world’s foremost theremin players, John Hoge, will provide the music for this unique evening. 

Tickets for Something Wicked This Way Comes are $33 and are now on sale.  To purchase tickets, or for more information, call 973-408-5600 or visit www.ShakespeareNJ.org.  This show will be held at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Avenue, at Lancaster Road in Madison on the Drew University campus.  Convenient parking is available.

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Live for Five Lottery for ‘The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters’

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Karen Nowosad

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Here’s a chance to get to see a preview of the next production at Playwrights Horizons Theatre for the very reasonable price of $5. The show that will be in previews is called The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters and the tickets are for October 18, 2013 which is the first day of this show’s run at the W. 42nd Street theatre.

All you have to do is send an entry in online.  To do that, go to this page of www.playwrights.org and complete the entry information.  You may request either one or two tickets, each of which may be purchased for $5.

Winners of the lottery will be notified no later than Tuesday, October 15th at 3:00 p.m. with instructions on how to book the ticket(s).

Entries will be accepted until Noon on Tuesday, October 12.

This presentation of The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters is a world premiere.  Here is how the show is described by Playwrights Horizons:

Aubrey, a very determined romantic, believes she’s met her soul-mate in Calvin, a boozing womanizer. But in this tilted, thoughtful comedy, true love is an even more tangled predicament. Peopled by an assortment of eccentrics, mystics and front porch philosophers, this new play from Marlane Meyer is a sweet polemic, an unexpected love story, and a deliciously cockeyed view of the sustaining—and destructive—power of belief.

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