Sunday Scoop 3/14/15- What's Happening This Week or Coming Up Soon

Children's Museum of the Arts: Summer Art Colony Preview Day

Where: 103 Charlton Street

            New York, New York

When: March 21, 2015  10 AM-5 PM

Families can:

                    Explore the museum

                    Participate in workshops featuring techniques featured in Summer Art Colony classes

                    Speak to Art Colony Staff

                    Register for Summer Classes

There will even be raffles held for class discounts.

For a full list of classes, click here!

CLICK HERE for Spring Break Art Colony classes!

For more information: contact Valerie at vkharchenko@cmany.org or 917-409-1215. 

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NEWS FROM O&M CO.

What: The Lion

Where: The Lynn Redgrave Theater at Culture Project

           45 Bleeker Street

           New York, New York

When: Through March 29, 2015

                                                              Wednesdays at 7:30 PM 

                                                               Thursdays at 7:30 PM 

                                                               Fridays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 5 PM & 8 PM, 

                                                               Sunday at 3 PM.  

Tickets: $26 - $75   

The Lion is an autobiographical coming of age musical written by and starring Benjamin Scheuer. Once the show's run in New York City concludes, it will immediately commence a National Tour as follows:

August 22 – September 20, 2015

Merrimack Repertory Theatre

50 East Merrimack Street

Lowell, Massachusetts 01852

September 22 – November 8, 2015

Milwaukee Repertory Theater

108 East Wells Street

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

November 11 – 22, 2015

Geva Theatre Center

75 Woodbury Boulevard

Rochester, New York 14607

February 26 – April 3, 2016

Arena Stage

1101 Sixth Street, SW

Washington, DC 20024

May 14 –June 5, 2016

City Theatre Company

1300 Bingham Street

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203

For more information or to order tickets go to www.TheLionMusical.com.

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What: 100 Musicals in Mufti Benefit Concert

Where:  The York Theater Company

              The Sanctuary at St. Peter's Church

              619 Lexington Aveue (at the corner of 54th Street)

              New York, New York

When: Monday March 30, 2015  7:30 PM

Hosted by Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia (Big)

Directed by Michael Unger (York Associate Artistic Director)

Music direction by Eric Svejcar (Big). 

Featuring performances and appearances by Mufti alumni and favorites including

Nancy Anderson (The Girl Who Came to Supper and five others)

Klea Blackhurst (Happy Hunting, By Jupiter), 

Jenn Colella (Goodtime Charley, Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road),  

Robert Creighton (The Good Companions)

Gretchen Cryer (Still Getting My Act Together)

Erin Davie (Silk Stockings) 

Stephen DeRosa (Oh, Captain!)

Ben Fankhauser (Saturday Night)

Debbie Gravitte (Carmelina, Billion Dollar Baby)

Jessica Grové (Coco, Happy Hunting),  

Judy Kaye (Smiling The Boy Fell Dead) 

Richard Kind (My Favorite Year) 

Aaron Lazar (Hallelujah, Baby!) 

Michael McCormick (Tenderloin, Tomfoolery

Patrick Page (Rex)

Jim Stanek (Cyrano and five others), 

Mary Testa (Lucky Stiff)

Nick Wyman (I and Albert and five others), 

Karen Ziemba (Weird Romance, Oh, Captain!),

plus composers  Nancy Ford (Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road),  

                               Sheldon Harnick (Tenderloin, A World To Win, Smiling The Boy Fell Dead),  

                               Tom Jones (Roadside, The Show Goes On)

                               Richard Maltby, Jr. (Big, Closer Than Ever), 

                               David Shire (Big, Closer Than Ever).  

 (All subject to availability.)    

 Production Stage Manager Meg Friedman.

 

Star Studded Reception will follow the performance

Tickets $75.00

To order tickets call  (212) 935-5820  0r stop by the box office Monday - Friday 12:00 pm - 6: 00 pm

For more information go to www.yorktheatre.org.

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What: The 39 Steps 

Where: Union Square Theater

               100 East 17th Street

               New York, New York 

When: Opening Apri 1, 2015

                                                                Mondays at 7:00 PM 

                                                               Wednesdays at 2:00PM and 8:00 PM 

                                                               Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 PM 

                                                               Saturdays at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM 

                                                               Sundays at 3:00 PM. 

Who: Ages 9 -99

The 39 Steps is a comic spoof of the original movie by the same name and features the cast of original Broadway show which opened in 2008 and ran for  3 years.

Purchase tickets to one of the first 39 performances for $39.00 through March 31, 2015 only using the code 39439

To order tickets go to Ticketmaster online or order by phone at 1-877-250-2929 

or starting March 25, 2015 stop by the box office

For more information go to   www.39StepsNY.com

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And that's the scoop.

Tune in tomorrow for another Talking Topic.