Robert Gonzales Jr., Victoria Lavington, Dan Leeds, Victoria Levin, Kyle J. Martin, Matthew Naclerio, Rick Redondo, Kelly Scanlon, Erin Leigh Schmoyer, Laura Jean Smith, Jeanie Tse, Tina Ward, Faith Wu.
Sounds Like
jazz, ragtime, yiddish folk music, musical theater
A hotly debated war
Legislation branding dissenters as unpatriotic
Anti-foreign sentiments inspiring anti-immigration laws
Families torn apart by generational conflicts
Lesbians and gays finding each other in Greenwich Village
Music and art flourishing in New York City
Not 2007,
It’s 1918:
A House Divided
A new musical drama
Book & lyrics by Barbara Kahn
Music by Allison Tartalia
Directed by Barbara Kahn
Musical Direction by Allison Tartalia
Set design by Mark Marcante
Costume design by Amy Kitzhaber
Stage manager Janice Dekoff
Featuring
Robert Gonzales Jr., Victoria Lavington, Dan Leeds, Victoria Levin, Kyle J. Martin, Matthew Naclerio, Rick Redondo, Kelly Scanlon, Erin Leigh Schmoyer, Laura Jean Smith, Jeanie Tse, Tina Ward, Faith Wu.
April 5 - 22, 2007
In the Cino Theater
Thursday, Friday Saturday @ 8pm
Sunday @ 3pm
All seats $12
Group rates available, TDF vouchers accepted
Box Office: (212) 254-1109
To visit the show's website and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/1918.htm.
Barbara Kahn is a multi-award winning playwright. Her honors include the Torch of Hope Award for lifetime achievement in non-profit theatre, whose past recipients include Terrence McNally, August Wilson, Horton Foote, A.R. Gurney and other theater luminaries. She most recently was named best playwright in the Fresh Fruit International Festival. She has directed plays in New York, Paris and the national Theatre in London. www.barbara-kahn.com
Allison Tartalia is a composer, instrumentalist and touring singer-songwriter. She graduated from The New School and studied acting at the London Dramatic Academy. A classically trained pianist, Allison draws upon diverse influences to create her eclectic brand of jazz-infused acoustic pop. Her debut CD, Ready, was enthusiastically received by critics, and songs from the album have been honored by the Indiegrrl, Billboard and John Lennon songwriting contests. www.allisontartalia.com.
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York’s most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC’s Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Ma-Yi Theater Company, which won an OBIE Award for its 1996 TNC production, FLIPZOIDS. TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company’s 1997 production of BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 40 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award.
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Pre-Order the Original Cast Recording of 1918: A House Divided. A copy will be mailed to you, hot off the press! (Just $15.00 plus $2.50 S&H)
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Random fact time! :) In the 1830's, the corset was thought of as a medical necessity. It was believed that a woman was very fragile, and needed assistance from some form of stay to hold her up. Even girls as young as three or four were laced up into bodices.
Gooooooooooooooooo Allison go! I can't wait to see your show. I'll be there Thursday or Friday with bells on. Really, I plan to shake them during intermission. ;)
Buon giorno - Good Morning! Congratulations!! Kevin and I will definitely see you at one of the nights - la promesa (promise). The war, the flu or even if Pres. Wilson, Theda Bara and Charlie Chaplin all came over to visit wouldn't stop us from seeing the show.
Hmm. I don't know, anything with Allison Tartalia involved is suspect right from the start. She's a bad influence, I heard. Won't SOMEBODY think of the CHILDREN???
