ONE NIGHT ONLY!
March 25th, 2012 - 7pm
A BENEFIT FOR THE PHYLLIS NEWMAN WOMEN'S HEALTH INITIATIVE
For one night only, BSTC continues their devotion to Broadway's lost treasures by bringing GOODTIME CHARLEY back to the stage. With a score by Larry Grossman (Doll's Life), lyrics by Hal Hackady (Minnie's Boys) and a book by Sidney Michaels (Tchin-Tchin), GOODTIME CHARLEY... chronicles Charles VII journey to the throne. A little lost, a little hedonistic, Charley encounters Joan of Arc and she helps to make the boy a man.
GOODTIME CHARLEY opened on Broadway on March 3, 1975 at the Palace Theatre. It closed abruptly 104 performances later.
Grossman's score is rich and luscious, with one beautiful song after another. Featuring Charlie Duncan in the title role (originally played by Joel Grey) and Emily Floyd as Joan of Arc (originally played by Ann Reinking), the cast will perform a one-night-only staged reading of this forgotten treasure.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW! http://www.showclix.com/event/221441
Performance at 7:00pm - Tickets range $20-25 - JORIA PRODUCTIONS THEATRE [260 W 36 Street, 3rd Floor]
For one night only, BSTC continues their devotion to Broadway's lost treasures by bringing GOODTIME CHARLEY back to the stage. With a score by Larry Grossman (Doll's Life), lyrics by Hal Hackady (Minnie's Boys) and a book by Sidney Michaels (Tchin-Tchin), GOODTIME CHARLEY... chronicles Charles VII journey to the throne. A little lost, a little hedonistic, Charley encounters Joan of Arc and she helps to make the boy a man.
GOODTIME CHARLEY opened on Broadway on March 3, 1975 at the Palace Theatre. It closed abruptly 104 performances later.
Grossman's score is rich and luscious, with one beautiful song after another. Featuring Charlie Duncan in the title role (originally played by Joel Grey) and Emily Floyd as Joan of Arc (originally played by Ann Reinking), the cast will perform a one-night-only staged reading of this forgotten treasure.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW! http://www.showclix.com/event/221441
Performance at 7:00pm - Tickets range $20-25 - JORIA PRODUCTIONS THEATRE [260 W 36 Street, 3rd Floor]
For more information, watch our teaser trailer at YouTube!
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you,
Won't you join the dance?
(L to R) Steven Carl McCasland as the Mock Turtle, Emily Floyd as Alice
and Anne Richmond as the Gryphon singing "Beautiful Soup" from ALICE AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES (June, 2011)
The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective was founded in the summer of 2010 by its Artistic Director, Steven Carl McCasland. A continuation of a student group he founded while at Pace University (Group Therapy Productions, 2005-2009), The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective produces time-less work that speaks to the heart of our community. Exploring classics and re-visiting musicals that never reached their pinnacle, The Soup chooses a charitable organization whose mission matches the themes of the show at end. The profits made at the box office, along with donations collected by actors after each performance, are donated to that charity. With four to five shows a year, The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective continues to be an active force in community growth.
Often using the themes of the piece at hand, (for example, Crossing Brooklyn, a musical about a teacher, benefited Artists Striving to End Poverty, who visit third-world countries to teach the arts), the process becomes educational as well. In addition, we've made some strong and wonderful bonds with theatre luminaries, like Phyllis Newman, whose Women's Health Initiative our productions of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and the forgotten flop musical A Doll's Life (Grossman, Comden & Green) benefited in the winter of 2012.
While serving the community, the Soup strives to bring light to all types of theater, new and old. Each season, the Collective produces at least one Shakespearean production, one American classic (comedy or drama), one forgotten musical (flops and lost classics that have not been seen on the stage in years), and one world premiere family theatre production.
In the summer of 2011, The Soup's family theatre production of Alice in Wonderland (adapted by Artistic Director Steven Carl McCasland) enjoyed an extended run off-Broadway at The SoHo Playhouse.
Previous productions include: BLACK [Billy Learns About Captain Kirk] & BLUE (August, 2010), William Shakespeare's Hamlet (November, 2010), Crossing Brooklyn: the musical, The WSXR Players' Present Their June 7, 1944 Broadcast of William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT, or What You Will (March, 2011), Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles (Summer, 2011), Macbeth (October, 2011), A Doll's House in repertory with A Doll's Life: the musical (January, 2012).
Theater can be for the masses if we let it. With The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective, you can return to your roots and explore the boundaries of theater while continuing to serve your community.
Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and/or joining our mailing list below! We'd love to hear from you! Will you, won't you join the dance?
While serving the community, the Soup strives to bring light to all types of theater, new and old. Each season, the Collective produces at least one Shakespearean production, one American classic (comedy or drama), one forgotten musical (flops and lost classics that have not been seen on the stage in years), and one world premiere family theatre production.
In the summer of 2011, The Soup's family theatre production of Alice in Wonderland (adapted by Artistic Director Steven Carl McCasland) enjoyed an extended run off-Broadway at The SoHo Playhouse.
Previous productions include: BLACK [Billy Learns About Captain Kirk] & BLUE (August, 2010), William Shakespeare's Hamlet (November, 2010), Crossing Brooklyn: the musical, The WSXR Players' Present Their June 7, 1944 Broadcast of William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT, or What You Will (March, 2011), Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles (Summer, 2011), Macbeth (October, 2011), A Doll's House in repertory with A Doll's Life: the musical (January, 2012).
Theater can be for the masses if we let it. With The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective, you can return to your roots and explore the boundaries of theater while continuing to serve your community.
Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and/or joining our mailing list below! We'd love to hear from you! Will you, won't you join the dance?
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