HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009 Presents
Got You
a benefit reading of a new play
by Michael W. Small
Directed by Penny Ayn Maas
Starring: Heather Laws, Fred Rose,
Laura Daniel, Jeremy Ellison-Gladstone
45 Bleecker Street Theater
(between Lafayette and Bowery)
Thursday, Sept. 24, 9:30 PM
Friday, Sept. 25, 9:30 PM
90 minutes; no intermission
Get your $10 tickets online now at:
http://brownpapertickets.com
Every day, East Villager Adam and his wife Wendy play a private game in which they try to trick each other with outrageous lies. But when their daily routine is interrupted by what seems to be another terrorist attack, they become unwitting players in a crisis that could turn deadly.
The HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: Theater Series is a benefit to support HOWL! HELP, an emergency services assistance fund for eligible for qualifying East Village Artists. Administered by The Actors Fund. More info: http://howlfestival.com
FOUR REASONS WHY YOU CAN'T MISS THIS READING...
1. See Amazing Actors: The reading will be performed by Broadway and Off Broadway stars who could count the few hairs on the playwright's head and make it sound dramatic.
2. Support a Great Cause: Your $10 ticket goes to Howl Help, providing emergency assistance to East Village artists who otherwise can't afford health care and other necessities.
3. Late Night Fun: Be wild and stay up past 9 PM. (Okay, the performance will be over by 11 and you'll be home by midnight.)
4. Torture a Playwright: After a reading of a new play, you can corner the playwright and watch his face fall as you tell him just what you thought. What could be more fun?
"GOT YOU" CAST
*LAURA DANIEL (Jill): Winner of the NYMF Award of Excellence for The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun. Inland Theatre League Award for Educating Rita. NYU Craft Award for the short film Sincerely Yours. NY Theatre: KABOOM! by Michael Small (played Kandy, the bike messenger; Cherry Lane Theater), Johnny On A Spot (St. Clement's), Sin with F. Murray Abraham, Hell's Belles (as Judy Garland and Janis Joplin), Rita in Lucky Stiff. Regional highlights: Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Gooch in Mame. www.lauradaniel.net
*JEREMY ELLISON-GLADSTONE (Patrick): Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks (The Boy, Final Cast), Game Show, Out of the Blue. Other NYC Theater: Election Day, Nerds (Paul Allen), The Children, A Muse in Manhattan. Jeremy can be seen in the Short Film Hey Julie directed by John Carrafa and on Showtime in the short film Sales Coach with Demetri Martin. Jeremy has also worked as a comedian at the NY Comedy Club. www.jeremyellisongladstone.com
*HEATHER LAWS (Wendy): Broadway: Company (Amy) Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, Cabaret (Sally Bowles, Rosie) and The Boy from Oz (cover for Liza Minnelli, performed! and Judy Garland). 2008 NYMF: She Can't Believe She Said That (Kathie Lee Gifford), 2009 MITF: Connect/Disconnect (Karen/May). Recent regional credits include: Company (Amy), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; All About Us (Joan from Arc), McCarter Theatre; The Full Monty (Vicky), Gateway Playhouse; Pump Boys and Dinettes (Prudy), MALTZ Jupiter Theatre; Beguiled Again (Original Cast), Florida Stage.
Watch Heather's performance of "I'm Not Getting Married Today" in the 2006 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" on Youtube.
*FRED ROSE (Adam) has appeared on Broadway in Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner, as David in John Doyle's revival of Company, as Max in Roundabout's Cabaret (directed by Sam Mendes), and as Raoul (and assorted others) in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. Regional favorites include Emile DeBecque in So. Pacific at the New London Barn, Mr. Browne in James Joyce's The Dead (Capital Rep.) Albin in La Cage aux Folles (Hilton Head, SC), Sebastian in The Thing About Men (Walnut Street), The "Uninvited Guest" in Putting it Together, Booth in Assassins, Ravenal in Showboat, George in George M, Richard Henry Lee in 1776, and Larry/Satan's Stockbroker in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival Production of KABOOM! Fred studied cello and voice at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has also appeared under Broadway in the pit orchestras of The Phantom of the Opera and The Boy From Oz, starring Hugh Jackman. Member of Actors Equity since 1992. For Mom, Justen, and the Coops.
Watch Fred (with his cello) in the 2006 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" on Youtube.
*Member of Actors Equity
GOT YOU PRODUCTION TEAM
PENNY AYN MAAS (Director) was the Associate Director for last summer's Fringe Festival hit KABOOM!, which she also choreographed. Other directing credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie for the Columbia Gorge Rep., Swingtime Canteen at the Theatre Barn, Smokey Joes Café in Winter Park Florida and Associate Director/Choreographer for the star-studded benefits at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre, Broadway Backwards:3 and Broadway Backwards: 4. Penny teaches dance at studios and schools in NJ and will be directing and choreographing for the Random Farms Kids Theatre this fall.
MICHAEL SMALL (Author) wrote KABOOM!, a farce about a San Francisco con man that was selected by The New York Sun as a "prestige production" in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival; directed by BT McNicholl (associate director of Broadway's Billy Elliot and Spamalot). Small also co-wrote the book to the musical The IT Girl, which starred Jean Louisa Kelly (CBS's Yes, Dear) and was overseen by Jerry Zaks during its critically-acclaimed 2001 Off Broadway run at the York Theater; since then, the show has been performed regionally. Other works include Beautiful Foolish Arms, which was performed in a Naked Angels reading in 2007, and The Cool Club, a comedy about an East Village nightclub that had a site-specific run at New York's famously defunct CBGB 313. A former writer and editor at PEOPLE Magazine, Small later ran the websites for Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone. He is now the managing director of Bravo TV's website, bravotv.com.
BRIAN RARDIN (Asst. Director/Stage Manager): Assoc. Director/Choreographer: From Gershwin to Berlin Algonquin Theater; Director/Choreographer: Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding Philadelphia, San Jose and San Francisco; Prod. Supervisor: Menopause The Musical-NYC; Co-Creator: Dangerous Duets (MAC Award). Stage Manager credits --Broadway: Equus, Well, Amadeus, Showboat; Regional/Paper Mill Playhouse: Happy Days, Meet Me In St. Louis, Romance/Romance.
DAVID PREMACK (Lighting and Sound Designer) last collaborated with Michael Small and Penny Ayn Maas as sound designer for KABOOM! in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. His recent productions include sound design for The Foreigner at the John Engeman Theatre in Northport, NY (dir. B.T. McNicholl) and lighting for the fall season of New Jersey's Surflight Theatre, highlighted by White Christmas and A Few Good Men. David currently serves as the artist-in-residence for a theatre program in the Minneapolis Public Schools. He acts as a consultant to countless theatres and organizations throughout both his home state of Minnesota and his adopted home of New York. Contact: www.davidpremack.com.
ALSO BY MICHAEL SMALL...
A Jazz Age musical inspired by the silent movie IT; book co-written by Michael Small and BT McNicholl, and music by Paul McKibbins; Off Broadway premiere at the York Theater in 2001; now performed regionally
"...a neat, very witty book." -- Clive Barnes, 2001
"A bright and breezy musical with a big future." -- Theatrical Index, 2001
"....fresh, remarkably intelligent entertainment." -- The Waterbury Republican American, 1999
"The dialog is punderful. Yes, punderful, that wonderful combination of puns and an unbelievable amount of double entendres... Just sit back and enjoy the entertainment." -- SDtheatrescene.com, 2009
New York International Fringe Festival, 2008:
"...mixes sex, greed and roguishness in a way that's highly reminiscent of the Marx Brothers...hip boisterous and puerile. It will probably be a big hit." -- Curtain Up, 2008
"...a far-fetched rollercoaster of crazy, unbridled Fringe Festival fun." -- Offoffonline.com, 2008
"So funny you might onomatopee your pants." -- Daily Candy, 2008