MCC Theater & Kurt Deutsch to Present Workshop of New Sheik/Sater Musical “Alice by Heart”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
MCC THEATER & KURT DEUTSCH
PRESENT AN INVITE-ONLY
WORKSHOP PRESENTATION
OF THE NEW
DUNCAN SHEIK-STEVE SATER MUSICAL
“ A L I C E B Y H E A R T ”
BROADWAY ALUMS
BEN PLATT, ASHLEY PARK, MARY TESTA
AND MORE TO STAR
DECEMBER 18, 2015
New York, NY – MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) in association with Kurt Deutsch, President of Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records, will hold an invite-only workshop presentation of the new musical Alice by Heart, the latest collaboration from Tony® and Grammy® winning Spring Awakening composers Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. Alice by Heart, a re-imagining of the classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, features a book by Steven Sater with Jessie Nelson, lyrics by Steven Sater, and music by Duncan Sheik. A private presentation of the material, directed by Lear Debessonet, will be held on December 18, 2015 by invitation only. Alice by Heart represents the latest example of MCC Theater’s year-round commitment to the development of new works for the American theater.
The workshop will star Riley Costello, Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, David Patrick Kelly, Andrew Mueller, Ashley Park, Ben Platt, Anthony Ramos, Emmy Raver-Lampman, and Tony® nominee Mary Testa. Casting by Telsey + Company/Craig Burns, CSA.
How do you leave childhood behind? How do you close the book – while holding onto the one you love – when the world has gone mad? From the Tony® and Grammy® Award winning creators of Spring Awakening, comes a remarkable new musical re-imagining of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The creative team for the workshop presentation of Alice by Heart includes choreography by Chase Brock, music direction by Chris Fenwick, and music supervision by Jason Hart.
MCC Theater is currently in performances with the acclaimed run of John Pollono’s Lost Girls starring Piper Perabo, which has been extended through December 4th at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Lost Girls, directed by Jo Bonney, also stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Meghann Fahy, Tasha Lawrence, Lizzy DeCelement, and Josh Green.
The remainder of MCC’s 2015-16 Season includes Smokefall by Noah Haidle, directed by Anne Kauffman, and starring Zachary Quinto and Robin Tunney, with previews beginning February 4, 2016 and an opening night set for February 22; and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City by playwright Halley Feiffer, directed by OBIE winner Trip Cullman, with previews beginning May 19, 2016 and an opening night set for June 6. All productions are staged at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street).
For more information on MCC Theater, visit www.mcctheater.org.
MCC Theater – founded in 1986 as Manhattan Class Company – is driven by a mission to provoke conversations that have never happened and otherwise never would. Led by Artistic Directors Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, and Executive Director Blake West, MCC fulfills its mission by producing new work that challenges artists and rewards audiences, and by nurturing the development of playwrights and students through a variety of literary and education programs that enable nearly 1,200 New York City high school students to find – and use – their own unique voice each year through the creation and performance of original theater pieces. MCC currently produces its annual season at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) and will open its own two-theater complex on West 52nd Street and 10th Avenue in 2017. Notable productions include the recent hit Hand to God, which is currently having a celebrated run on Broadway; The Nether; the Obie-winning Punk Rock; Small Engine Repair; The Village Bike; The Other Place; Really Really; The Submission, winner of the inaugural Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award for new American plays; The Pride; Fifty Words; Nixon’s Nixon; The Grey Zone; the Tony Award-winning Frozen; the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit; the re-imagined production of the musical Carrie; and ten plays by Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute, including Fat Pig, Reasons to Be Pretty and Reasons to Be Happy.
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