Will you, won't you, will you, won't you,
Won't you join the dance?
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.
The cast and crew of A DOLL'S LIFE with Tony Award winner Phyllis Newman
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.
The cast and crew of GOODTIME CHARLEY with Tony Award-nominated songwriting team Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady
While serving the community, the Soup strives to bring light to all types of theater, new and old. Each season, the Collective produces a wide array of theatrical programming for our audiences including:
-one play (European or American) written between 1850 and 1960
-one play (comedy or drama) written after 1960
-one production for all ages; a new look at a children's classic story
-one Greek or Shakespearean classic in the park-
-a revival of a lost or forgotten musical-
....in addition to our bi-monthly table-readings, and three musical workshops each year. The one-week workshops of a musical that has either never been produced or has been forgotten and deserves a second look culminates in a one-night-only staged reading for the public.
The cast and crew of A DOLL'S HOUSE with Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale
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