Announcing: The Lyric Theatre on La Brea’s 2011 Season of Musicals

THE LYRIC THEATRE ON LA BREA
ANNOUNCES 2011 SEASON OF MUSICALS

LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF NUNSENSATIONS! BY DAN GOGGIN,
WEST COAST PREMIERE OF
LUST ‘N RUST, THE TRAILER PARK MUSICAL
BY FRANK HANEY, CAROL KIMBALL & DAVE STRATTON,
AND JERRY HERMAN’S RARELY PRODUCED DEAR WORLD

The Lyric Theatre on N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, Dorrie Braun, Founder and Executive Director, has announced a season of musicals for 2011, which will kick off on February 11 with the Los Angeles premiere of Nunsensations! by Dan Goggin, followed by the West Coast premiere of Lust ‘n Rust, The Trailer Park Musical by Frank Haney, Carol Kimball & Dave Stratton, and concluding with the rarely produced Jerry Herman musical, Dear World.

Nunsensations! – The Nunsense Vegas Revue takes place in the Pump Room Lounge of the Mystique Motor Lodge in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Sisters have been told by a Hoboken parishioner that he will donate $10,000 to their school if the Sisters go to Las Vegas and perform in a friend’s showroom. Reverend Mother has serious doubts about appearing in “Sin City.” However, after convincing her that “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” the Sisters plan their program. This is the seventh Nunsense musical. With book, music and lyrics by Dan Goggin and directed by Amy Rowell, Nunsensations! opens February 11and runs through March 13.

Lust ‘n Rust, The Trailer Park Musical starts as the story of Steve, a corporate manager from New Jersey who is transferred by his company to a small Southern Illinois town to run the local Agribig food processing plant. He moves into the Redbud Mobile Estates and meets the quirky characters that live in the trailer park. We soon find that the story is also about Connie, Steve’s neighbor in the park, who is in the process of splitting up with her husband. Connie’s relationship with Steve complicates matters, and their lives are further complicated when Steve gets a difficult assignment … one that could have a disastrous impact on the local economy. Lust ‘n Rust, written by Frank Haney, Carol Kimball & Dave Stratton and directed by Thomas Colby, will open on April 1 and run through April 30.

Dear World is a Broadway musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and music and lyrics by the legendary Jerry Herman. With its opening in February of 1969, Herman became the only composer-lyricist in history to have three productions running on Broadway simultaneously (Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and Dear World). Based on the Jean Giraudoux play The Madwoman of Chaillot, Dear World focuses on the Countesses Aurelia, Constance and Gabrielle, who deviously scheme to stop businessmen from drilling for oil in the Parisian neighborhood of Chaillot. The forces of idealism, love and poetry win over those of greed, materialism and science, still a relevant message for today. After the Broadway closing, Herman, Lawrence and Lee rewrote the show, which was originally conceived as a chamber musical, restoring the intimacy they felt had been undermined on Broadway. Dear World, directed by Thomas Colby, opens on May 20 and runs through June 19.

Tickets for Nunsensations! (opening February 11) are on sale now, and may be purchased by visiting http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/144372, www.Goldstar.com or by calling (626) 695-8283. The Lyric Theatre is located at 520 N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, 90036. Street parking is available. For more information on the Lyric Theatre and the season of musicals, visit www.LyricTheatreLA.com.

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01-11-11

Announcing: Los Angeles Premiere of K2

LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF
K2 BY PATRICK MEYERS
OPENS OCTOBER 9 AT THE UNDERGROUND THEATER
FOR SIX WEEKS ONLY

The Los Angeles premiere of K2, written by Patrick Meyers and directed by Damen Scranton, will play two lower-priced previews at the Underground Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, October 7 and Friday, October 8 at 8pm, and opening is set for Saturday, October 9, 2010, at 8pm. K2 will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, November 14.

K2, the mountain, is the second-tallest peak on the planet, rising to an elevation of 28,251 feet on the border between Pakistan and China. K2, the play, is a 75-minute harrowing tale of two mountain climbers who are stranded on a ledge at 27,000 feet. After an accident leaves one of the men with a severely broken leg, the two survive the night only to confront the fact that they do not have the necessary equipment to rappel to Base Camp safely. K2 is the story of two contentious friends and their struggle to solve an impossible problem. It is a tale of friendship and morality, of love and mortality, of climbing, quantum physics, and the search for God.

The cast of K2 will feature Sean Galuszka and Jake Suffian. The design team includes Laura Fine Hawkes (set), and Leigh Allen (lighting). Casting is by Steve Helgoth. Jaimie Van Dyke is the production stage manager, and K2 is being produced by Jake Suffian for K2Project.  Environmental consultant is Jessica L. Aldridge, and climbing consultant Tony Yeary will train the actors in high altitude climbing techniques using the appropriate mountaineering clothing and equipment.

K2 had its world premiere in 1982 at the Theatre by the Sea in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Followed closely by productions at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York, K2 opened on Broadway in 1983. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn and lighting designer Allen Lee Hughes received Tony Award nominations, and Ming Cho Lee won the Tony and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Set Design.

The Los Angeles premiere of K2 will promote environmental conservation and responsibility by using eco-friendly and recycled materials throughout the production process.  All materials will then be recycled, to the extent that they can be, at the conclusion of the run.

Also, 10% of all ticket sales will be donated to the Central Asia Institute. C.A.I. works to bring educational resources to remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Tickets for the preview performances on Thursday, October 7 and Friday, October 8 at 8pm are only $5. Beginning on opening night (Saturday, October 9 at 8:00) and at all subsequent performances, tickets are $15. The playing schedule is Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm through November 14. THE MEDIA IS INVITED AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THE OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE ON SATURDAY 10/9, BUT IS ALSO WELCOME AT ANY OTHER PERFORMANCE AFTER THAT DATE. Tickets are available now by visiting www.K2LA.org or by calling (800) 838-3006. The Underground Theater is located at 1314 N. Wilton Place in Hollywood.

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