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For
immediate release
September
14, 2004
Contact: Thomas Edward West
917-567-8691
www.enchantedcottagemusical.com
“Sheer brilliance—at once exuberant and heart-rending.” So wrote
Tony-award winning composer/lyricist Maury Yeston about the song “Tennis”
from the new musical The Enchanted Cottage, calling it “a duet unlike any other in the
musical theater canon.” And that’s only one song. Wait till you hear the
rest.
Open the door of The Enchanted
Cottage, and you’ll find a place where the grim aftermath of war can
blossom into exhilarating romance, where unexpected miracles can—and
do—happen, where despair and heartbreak are redeemed
by the transformative power of love.
You can find The
Enchanted Cottage at The New York Musical Theatre Festival, the
first-of-its-kind festival that will present 67 events, including 31 premiering
musicals and 14 concerts over 21 days. A concert reading of this thrilling new
musical, written by the award-winning team of Thomas Edward West (book), Kim
Oler (music) and Alison Hubbard (lyrics) will be performed twice at the
45th Street
Theatre on Monday, September 27 at 4:30 p.m. and Thursday, September 30, also
at 4:30 p.m.
The reading of The Enchanted Cottage is directed by Peter Flynn, with musical
direction by Mark Goodman, and features a cast of some of Broadway’s best,
including Andrea Burns, Willy Falk, Annie Golden, Joseph Kolinsky, Barbara
Marineau, Rex Hays, Steve Routman, Rose McGuire and Jeff Brooks.
The Enchanted Cottage received the 2003 Jerry Bock Award and the
2002 BMI Jerry Harrington Award, and was featured in the 2002 NAMT Festival of
New Musicals in
New York
, starring Michael Hayden and Emily Skinner. The writers have also won the
Richard Rodgers award and received a grant from the Lila Acheson Wallace Readers
Digest Fund for their original musical Class Clown, produced at the Promenade Theatre in NYC and by the
Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. The
Enchanted Cottage is based upon the 1921 comic romance by Sir Arthur Wing
Pinero, which was also made into a much-loved film in 1945 starring Robert Young
and Dorothy McGuire.
Tickets are available for $15.00 through www.TheaterMania.com,
(212) 352-3101. For more information on
the New York Musical Theater Festival, go to www.nymf.org.
Find The Enchanted Cottage on the Web
at www.enchantedcottagemusical.com.
The
45th Street
Theater is at
345 West 45th Street
, between 8th and 9th Avenues.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival is produced under the auspices of
The National Musical Theater Network, a 501(c) (3) not for profit organization.
Dedicated to discovering new works, new artists and creating new stars, NYMF
will do for musical theatre what Sundance does for independent film: celebrate
its diversity, creativity and future. NYMF is proudly supported by Time Out New
York, AM New York, NYC and Company, Lindemanns, HX, Theatermania, Next, Gang Run
Direct Printers, broadwayworld.com and Galvanic Printing, and is predicted to be
the largest musical theater event in
New York City
's history.
For Information about the New York Musical Theatre Festival:
www.nymf.org
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