Sunday Scoop Week of 10/30/22 What's Happening This Week and More

A) Beginning Performances 

B) Cast Recording Releases

C) New Cast Members 

D) New Releases 

E) Extended Runs

F) What Else is Happening This Week and More

A)Beginning Performances

New Jersey

Come Blow Your Horn

Neil Simon's first Broadway comedy smash is all about family and all the crazy, hilarious and wonderful things that happen when parents and their adult children get together. Alan Baker, a 30-ish swinging bachelor with time, money and women to spare, welcomes rebellious and eager 21-year brother Buddy into his den of iniquity while their horrified parents can only watch and pray. This farcical 60's romp became a hit movie starring Frank Sinatra. 

Kelsey Theater at MCCC (1200 Old Trenton Rd.)

11/ 4 - 11/13

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit kelsey.mccc.edu/shows_current.shtml

Living Dead in Denmark

When the dead walk…you run! Living Dead in Denmark is an action-adventure/horror sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Set five years after the events of the original, the undead have risen to power and are trying to take over the world, led by the zombie lord and true king of Denmark. Fortinbras, assembling a formidable opposition, has resurrected the corpses of some of the greatest women Shakespeare had to offer: Lady Macbeth, Juliet, and a very angry Ophelia. A clash of the undead titans ensues! Using Hamlet as a jumping-off point, Qui Nguyen throws in martial arts, horror movies, pop songs, puppetry, and comic books in this new play. 

Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center of the Centenary University 

(715 Grand Ave. Hackettstown, NJ)

11/3 - 11/7

Tootsie

This laugh-out-loud love letter to the theater tells the story of Michael Dorsey, a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act of desperation lands him the role of a lifetime. 

State Theatre New Jersey (15 Livingston Ave.)

11/4 - 11/6

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.stnj.org/event/tootsie

New York

A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical

Broadhurst Theatre (235 W. 44th St.)

Beginning Performances 11/2

Opening Night 12/4

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.abeautifulnoisethemusical.com

Ain't No Mo

Having premiered to overwhelming acclaim at The Public Theater, Ain’t No Mo’ dares to ask the incendiary question, “What if the U.S. government attempted to solve racism … by offering Black Americans one-way plane tickets to Africa?” The answer comes in the form of an outrageous and high-octane comedy about being Black in today’s America. From the mischievous mind of the youngest American playwright in Broadway history, Jordan E. Cooper (“The Ms. Pat Show”), Ain’t No Mo’ seamlessly blends sketch comedy, satire and avant garde theater to leave audiences crying with laughter—and thinking through the tears.

Belasco Theatre (111 W. 44th St) 

Performances Begin 11/3

Opening Night 12/1

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.aintnomobway.com

 Dear Mom Sorry for Being a Bitch

A one-woman (with guests!) comedic play, written by and starring Christine Covode, Dear Mom, Sorry For Being A Bitch details the evolution of a girl's relationship with her mom as time takes them through the ages. Starting in elementary school, when Mom is your best friend, through middle and high school when she becomes the bane of your existence, all the way until college and beyond when you finally begin to appreciate her. Speaking into her video diary for the entirety of the performance, the story makes its way inside the mind of a distressed teenager as she slowly grows to love and understand the person who was always by her side. Come ride the hilarious yet deeply moving roller coaster ride and watch as Christine peels back the woman behind the minivan wheel.  With the help of a Motley crew of characters, our protagonist travels back in time and retells each b!tchy phase of life with honesty, humor and deep apology. There are boys (you know who u are), haunting college counselors, silly bandz, razor phones, layered tank tops, first kisses and even some HAWT makeouts on stage. Just kidding, it’s middle school. COME ONE COME ALL! 

Soho Playhouse (15 Vandam St.)

11/2 -11/13

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit SHOW’S SITE

The Girl With Red Hair

The Girl with the Red Hair follows a young girl as she is admitted into a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide. Slowly, she finds herself unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy as she navigates learning who she can trust in this new environment. As she pushes against the doctors’ treatment, her memory begins to deceive her, leading her and us on a journey to discover the truth of what lies beneath us.

The Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond St.)

11/3 - 11/12

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit  www.thegirlwiththeredhairplay.com.

Lost Again

Lost Again is a road dramedy about two mismatched strangers paired up by a mutual friend: Ilona Young, a type-A, know-it-all travel blogger on a cross-country assignment and Casey Calvino, a jaded comedian on a tour of the U.S. Their story is one of identity, pain, adventure, friendship, moving on and moving forward. Each act will take place in a city, or town, en-route from New York to Los Angeles. The story is part misadventure, part self-discovery, and part buddy dramedy.

The Tank (312 W. 36th St.)

11/2 - 11/16

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/lost%20again

Parade

Tony Award winner Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen) stars as Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, whose 1913 trial, conviction, legal appeal, and eventual lynching inspired this haunting musical. Arden’s true-crime production also features rising star Micaela Diamond (The Cher Show) as Frank’s young wife Lucille, an assimilated Southern Jewish woman who becomes her husband’s most vocal crusader.

City Center (130 W. 56th St.)

11/1 - 11/6

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2022-2023/parade

Some Like It Hot

Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the rollicking story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they’re on the run as the newest members of the swingingest big band ever to cross the country. Can they hide in plain sight without completely losing themselves? Or will the mob, the truth, and maybe even love itself finally catch up to them?

Shubert Theatre (225 W. 44th St,)

Beginning Performances 11/1

Opening Night 12/11

For more information or to purchase, visit www.SomeLikeItHotMusical.com

B) Cast Recordings

A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical

Broadhurst Theatre (235 W. 44th St.)

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.abeautifulnoisethemusical.com

Knoxville

Based on James Agee’s autobiographical, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family, the story begins as Agee struggles to write his greatest work—about the event that touched his young life and the effect it had on his mother, his town, and his own future. A powerful illumination of the forces that shape who we are, Knoxville is a universal coming-of-age story about family, faith, and love—and about the boy who will grow up to write it.

For more information, visit www.broadwayrecords.com.

The Violet Hour

The dazzle, wit, and romance of the Jazz Age comes vibrantly to life in The Violet Hour, a tuneful and emotionally stirring new musical. The story is set on April 1, 1919, when John Pace Seavering, a young publisher, comes to possess a machine that inexplicably begins printing pages from books. Books from the future. Page by page, John pieces together a vision of what the next century has in store for himself, his friends, and the world at large. And once he decides he wants to change the future, the clock is ticking.

For more information, visit theviolethourmusical.com.

C) New Cast Members

Kristolyn Lloyd joins Roundabout 1776 on Broadway as John Adams

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit 

roundabouttheatre.orgroundabouttheatre.org

D) New Releases

Company - original Spanish cast recording

Concord Theatricals / Craft Recordings released Antonio Banderas and Teatro del Soho CaixaBank’s second album featuring the acclaimed Spanish production of the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical Company, under the musical direction of Arturo Díez-Boscovich. This is the first Spanish-language recording of the iconic musical, now available for streaming and digital platforms worldwide.

The entire album is available to stream or download HERE. The CD will be released in Spain on Friday, November 11.

No Friends -  the fourth single available from the forthcoming Original Broadway Cast Recording of Almost Famous, following the release of “Morocco,” “The Night-Time Sky’s Got Nothing on You” and “Everybody’s Coming Together.” Almost Famous is now in preview performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York City with opening night set for November 3, 2022.

Making its debut alongside today’s preorder, the new track “No Friends” performed by Casey Likes and the company, along with a new music video filmed at Sear Sound recording studio in New York City – watch here.

To preorder the original cast recording, visit  preorder

More about Almost Famous later in this week's Scoop. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.almostfamousmusical.com

Sweet Caroline - the latest single from the forthcoming original cast album of the new musical, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Story.

More about  A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond later in this week's Scoop. To pre-order the CD of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical click HERE. For more information or to purchase tickets to A Beautiful Noise visit www.abeautifulnoisethemusical.com.

 

E) Run Extensions

A Man of No Importance

A Man of No Importance tells the story of an amateur theatre group in 1960s Dublin and their leader, bus driver Alfie Byrne (Jim Parsons). Determined to stage a production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome despite the objections of local church authorities, Alfie confronts the forces of bigotry and shame over a love "that dare not speak its name.” This evocative and award-winning musical illustrates the redemptive power of theater, love, and friendship, all for a man of seemingly no importance. 

Classic Stage Company (136 E. 13th St.)

Now Playing Through 12/18

For more information to to purchase tickets, visit  classicstage.org

Chester Bailey

In a stateside hospital at the close of World War II, a young man recovers from catastrophic injuries. Or so the doctors have told him. But Chester Bailey denies what’s happened to him has actually happened, which is how he comes under the care of Dr. Philip Cotton. Older, wounded in his own ways, Cotton is charged with leading Chester back to reality. The journey is not what either man expected. Chester Bailey stars real-life father and son, Tony Award winner Reed Birney (The Humans, “House of Cards”) and Ephraim Birney (“Gotham,” “The Americans”), as doctor and patient, and is directed by Ron Lagomarsino (Driving Miss Daisy, “Picket Fences”).

Irish Repertory Theater

(132 W, 22nd St.)

Now Playing Through 11/20

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit IrishRep.org

F*ck the 7th Grade

An adolescent romance, a brief rise to pop stardom, a queer musical memoir (about how we’ll never get out of middle school) conceived by award-winning singer-songwriter Jill Sobule – whose 1990s hits include “Supermodel” and the original “I Kissed a Girl.”

Time travel back to the 70s as Jill Sobule, with the help of her middle school band, weaves a melodic tale about surviving 7^th grade to become the first pop music artist to pen the first openly-Queer song that landed on the Billboard Top 20. Jill guides the audience through the inner turmoil of pre-pubescence, the elation of getting a record deal, and the frustration and disheartening politics of dealing with the recording industry as a Queer artist. Can she ultimately embrace the song that made her a household name?

wild project (195 E. 3^rd Street, between Avenues A & B)

Now Playing Through11/19

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit TheWildProject.org.

F) What Else is Happening This Week and More

1) A Scintillating Shaw Party

7/7 Theater Row

2) Broadway Podcast Network New Series, Creating Lucy Simon

3) Diwali Festival Flushing Town Hall

11/5

4) The Dramatists Guild TALKBACK Launches Season 4

5) Into the Woods Cast Recording CD & Vinyl Preorders Available Now

6) Monet's Garden The Immersive Experience 

7) MorDance Presents Works in Progress

11/5 Martha Graham Studio

8) Nai-Ni Chen  Dance Co. The Bridge Hybrid, Live, In-Person Dance Class Schedule

11/2

9) The Orchestra Now Presents The Lost Generation

11/3

10) TopDog/Underdog Announces Student Tickets

11) Works & Process November Programs

12) ZviDance Presents World Premiere of Migrations

11/3 New York Live Arts

1)

Announces

A SCINTILLATING SHAW PARTY

 

CHAT WITH THE EXPERTS ABOUT ALL THINGS GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

 

MONDAY NOVEMBER 7^TH AT 7PM

AT THEATRE ROW

 

RESERVE A FREE TICKET HERE

Gingold Theatrical Group (David Staller, Founding Artistic Director) is proud to continue GTG’s 17^th Season with their annual special evenings of community events that embrace human rights and free speech. All of GTG’s programs, inspired by the works of George Bernard Shaw, are designed to provoke peaceful discussion and activism.

Tickets for this special event are free, with advance reservations required. To reserve a ticket, visit tinyurl.com/ShawTalk.

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2) BROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK

RELEASES NEW SERIES

CELEBRATING LUCY SIMON

Broadway Podcast Network Co-Founders Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales announced today the launch of the network’s new series, “Celebrating Lucy Simon.” “Celebrating Lucy Simon” is a five-part video and podcast series featuring never before heard stories from the late Lucy Simon herself and her renowned collaborators Judy Collins, Marshall Brickman, Marsha Norman, Victoria Clark, and many others, as well as performances by Sierra Boggess, Daisy Eagan, John Cameron Mitchell, Ramin Karimloo and more. The series celebrates the life and work of the Grammy Award winning composer, from the perspective of her friends, family, and collaborators and features songs such as “Wick”, “Come to my Garden” and “Lily’s Eyes.”

Video episodes are available to watch at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNSX5V7vI1yE2nwl8Hb7Fb965MwML-9pF

 

To listen, please visit https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcast/celebrating-lucy-simon, or wherever podcasts are found.

 

This podcast supports the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. To make a donation, please visit https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcast/celebrating-lucy-simon/

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3) Flushing Town Hall Announces 8th Annual Diwali Festival 

The festival will feature a rangoli art competition and display, a dance party and performances,

and delicious Indian cuisine

On Saturday, November 5, Flushing Town Hall will host its eighth annual Diwali Festival—a celebration welcoming audiences of all ages and cultures and a very popular event each year at the Hall. 

Abha Roy, a master teaching artist and artistic director of the Srijan Dance Company, will share the stage with IMGE: Ishita Mili Global Exposé for a performance rooted in Indian classical, hip-hop, and contemporary dance. Attendees can also enjoy a dance party with instruction on traditional moves from Roy, a Kathak classical dancer, and Mili, a Bharatanatyam dancer. Festival goers can also explore traditional rangoli design with artist Anju Gupta, savor Indian foods with Queens Curry Kitchen, and discover ayurvedic treatments with Shweta Parmar. 

The Indian holiday of Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, is a day of solidarity, where the soft light of diyas – or oil-wick candles – illuminate streets and homes, banishing the darkness of ignorance and suffering. It began as a part of an ancient harvest festival, which celebrated the fertility of the earth and prosperity of the new harvest. Though Diwali has taken on a significant meaning in Hinduism, in India it is celebrated by all groups regardless of religious affiliation as a time of renewal and growth.

At the event, Flushing Town Hall will present the artwork of the winners of its Rangoli Design Competition. Rangoli is an age-old art form from India. Derived from a Sanskrit word meaning “rows of colors,” rangoli is a celebratory Hindu art form usually drawn in homes or courtyards with the hope of inviting blessings from the gods.

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4)

PRESENT SEASON FOUR OF

THE DRAMATISTS GUILD PRESENTS: TALKBACK

 

FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH

LYNN AHRENS, AMANDA GREEN, STEPHEN FLAHERTY, BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, MICHAEL R. JACKSON, LISA KRON, RONA SIDDIQUI, JOHN WEIDMAN AND CHARLAYNE WOODARD

 

EPISODE ONE IS AVAILABLE NOW

The Dramatists Guild of America is proud to present season four of The Dramatists Guild Presents: TALKBACK. In the fourth season, the Guild celebrates writers from a diverse array of backgrounds and how they’ve built meaningful careers within a constantly evolving industry. The first episode of the season debuts today and is available for streaming or download on all podcast platforms.

After two years spent in relative isolation, live theatre is back. What is inspiring our fellow writers these days, and where did it all begin for them? What have they learned from the ways in which they managed to serve their national community of playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists during the pandemic? How can they continue to advocate for a more equitable future, one that champions and uplifts all theatre writers within our ever-expanding community?

Join host Christine Toy Johnson as she interviews fellow members of the Dramatists Guild Council about what inspires them to create art and what inspires them to create community. This season, DG Council members Lynn Ahrens, Amanda Green, Stephen Flaherty, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Michael R. Jackson, Lisa Kron, Rona Siddiqui, John Weidman, and Charlayne Woodard provide a searingly honest look into their writing processes and share what drives them to keep fighting for equal rights and protections for theatre writers everywhere.

From conversations about challenging the industry’s status quo to insights on crafting new musicals, these six episodes offer a window into the struggles and triumphs of what it means to be a theatre writer in the 21st century.

For more information or to listen go to https://www.dramatistsguild.com/talkback

 

Download the first three seasons of Talkback via the Broadway Podcast Network.

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5) CD AND VINYL PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE

 FOR

CAST RECORDING OF THE CRITICALLY

 ACCLAIMED

NEW YORK CITY CENTER ENCORES!

PRODUCTION OF

JAMES LAPINE AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S

REVIVAL OF

INTO THE WOODS

Today Concord Theatricals / Craft Recordings announced the launch of CD and vinyl preorders for the cast recording of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of the New York City Center Encores! production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods. The CD will be released on December 2, followed by vinyl on March 17, 2023. The 2-LP vinyl set will be available everywhere in Red and exclusively at Barnes & Noble in Gold. Preorders can be placed HERE.

To celebrate the launch of preorders, the production released a new music video featuring Patina Miller recording “Last Midnight,” which can be viewed HERE.

 

The entire album is currently available to stream or download HERE.

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6) U.S. PREMIERE OF

MONET’S GARDEN

THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE

COMES TO NEW YORK CITY

NOVEMBER 1 THROUGH JANUARY 8

Monet’s Garden The Immersive Experience today announced its U.S. premiere in New York City beginning November 1, 2022 with an official opening set for Friday, November 4. Taking over the grand and historic Seamen’s Bank Building at 30 Wall Street, in the heart of New York’s Financial District, the limited engagement will continue through January 8, 2023. Tickets are on-sale now.

Monet’s Garden thrusts visitors into a multi-sensory and multimedia voyage that reveals the inspiration and history behind some of the world’s greatest masterpieces. Employing an unprecedented range of visual, phonic and olfactory stimuli, this enchanting exhibition provides complete and total immersion into the work and world of Claude Monet (1840-1926).

Visitors are guided through experiential galleries, each providing fresh perspectives on Monet's life and new experiences of his cherished masterpieces.

The exhibition is enhanced by aromas of lavender wafting in the air and the romanticism of classical music to serenade visitors with an educational and enlightening multi-language narration in The Showroom. This multi-sensory culmination has never before been presented by a past immersive experience in New York. 

 

The experience begins where Monet, “The Founder of Impressionism”, created his great works. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of Monet‘s painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects"), initiated by Monet. The experience includes the staging of Monet’s bridge and world-famous garden landscape in Giverny, Normandy.

The water lily paintings, the towering culmination of Monet's creative work, are presented as the finale of the experience. The entire room transforms into a gigantic water lily pond, creating placing visitors right in the center of an infinite dreamscape.

 

The result is a complete immersion into Monet’s paintings, and also in his perceptions, techniques and ways of conceiving his art. Monet's central themes of light, shadow, wind, and the element of water as a reflective surface are integrated and woven into visual poetry with the use of state-of-the-art technology.  

The narration is available for patrons in English, Spanish, French,

Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese.

 

EXHIBITION HOURS

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday         10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Thursday                                      10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday & Saturday                          10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday                                         10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

 

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets for the exhibition are on-sale now at www.monetsgarden.venuetix.com.

Tickets range in price from $25 for kids, $28 for students, to $45 for VIP Flex tickets, which comes with priority access, flexible admission. Basic timed tickets begin at $33.00.

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7) MorDance

presents

Works in Progress

November 5, 2021

at Martha Graham Studios

MorDance presents Works in Progress on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 7:30pm at Martha Graham Studios, 55 Bethune St, NYC. This intimate showing is an opportunity to peer into the creative process and hear from the artists themselves. Tickets are $30 ($25 for students and seniors) and can be purchased online at mordance.org/calendar/works-in-progress.

MorDance, a trailblazing female-led dance company celebrated for creating original collaborative works that push the boundaries of classical ballet, invites audience members to peek into the inspirations and creation of two new ballets and engage in a stimulating discussion with artistic director Morgan McEwen and her collaborators about the creative process. This is a thrilling opportunity to dive inside these ballets before they premiere at Gerald Lynch Theater in the Spring of 2023.

Work 1: The first ballet will take flight from Chris Jordan's critically acclaimed documentary, ALBATROSS, which powerfully depicts a vulnerable albatross population incurring the impact of mass consumption, global industry, and human unconsciousness. I look to articulate this challenging narrative through a choreography of avian movement and breathtaking wingspans. I will collaborate with composer and experimental violinist Josh Knowles on a spacious arrangement that expresses both soaring heights and the ominous weight of dire circumstances. Josh will compose and record this piece on a single violin looped and layered through multiple distortion pedals.

 

Work 2: Inspired by Emily Dickinson's transcendent and radically outspoken poem of the same title, our second ballet, They Shut Me Up In Prose, will likewise evoke a young woman overcoming sexism in an overwhelmingly patriarchal society. This piece will interlace modern movement and classical ballet vernacular across styles and histories. Appropriately, Polina Nazaykinskaya will create a contemporary score to be played on classical instruments. Polina's unique experience as an internationally renowned composer and a woman will bring extraordinary artistry and meaningful perspective to the themes portrayed. The arrangement will eventually be performed live by five musicians: a pianist alongside a classical string quartet.

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8) Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

Announces

The Bridge

Virtual Dance Institute

of boundary-breaking dance experiences

Free One-Hour Company Classes on Zoom and In Person

Open to All Dancers at an Intermediate to Advanced LevelHybrid, Live, In-Person on November 2, 2022

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company established a new dance institute through Zoom, The Bridge. Now, classes are also being offered in person. The Institute’s aim is to bring together dancers, choreographers and directors around the world to experience the master teachers of color whose practices are embedded in the community and are focused on advancing the art of dance that transforms the personal, environmental and metaphysical spaces. Interested dancers in attending the virtual session can join the class by registering here.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfa6k8oMdzpbVufBQzqzILJh2iyoKIA88JJcg3j5xJQGB7Z2g/viewform

The Bridge is going Hybrid-Live: On Wednesday, Nov 2, 2022, the Bridge will offer Kinetic Spiral class with Greta Campo in-person at the Joffrey Ballet Studios in Queens. The class is aimed at professional dancers and interested dancers can register here for the live, in-person experience.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffEVPZ3MtHlbn2MvXMBQOCFYWqAVP8JBXQmdydwsTt5ZzJgw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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9) THE ORCHESTRA NOW BEGINS ITS CARNEGIE HALL SERIES WITH A PROGRAM TITLED THE LOST GENERATION ON NOVEMBER 3, 2022

U.S. and New York City Premiere of Hugo Kauder’s Symphony No. 1   Rare Performances of Works by Hans Erich Apostel, Adolf Busch, and Walter Braunfels

Music Director Leon Botstein conducts The Orchestra Now in the first concert of its annual Carnegie Hall series on Thursday, November 3 at 7 PM. The program offers rarely performed works by four early 20^th century German and Austrian composers from The Lost Generation, whose music was unfairly ignored or suppressed during and following World War II. In a special partnership with the Hugo Kauder Society, TŌN presents the New York City premiere of Kauder’s First Symphony. The Orchestra performs the Symphony’s U.S. premiere at the Fisher Center at Bard on October 29 and repeats the program on October 30. Both Fisher Center performances will be livestreamed on TŌN’s website. 

The Lost Generation

Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 7 PM

Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Leon Botstein , conductor

Adolf Busch (arr. P. Serkin): Variations on an Original Theme

Walter Braunfels: Sinfonia brevis

Hans Erich Apostel: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Hugo Kauder : Symphony No. 1 (NYC premiere)

Carnegie Hall Tickets priced at $25–$50 are available online at carnegiehall.org, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800, or at the Carnegie Hall box office at 57th & Seventh Avenue. Ticket holders will need to comply with the venue’s health and safety requirements, which can be found here.

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10) 20^th Anniversary Production of

SUZAN-LORI PARKS’ TOPDOG/UNDERDOG

Announces

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG STUDENT SEATS

THE INITIATIVE WILL PROVIDE 3,000 TICKETS

TO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT GROUPS FREE OF CHARGE

The critically acclaimed 20^th Anniversary Production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, has announced TOPDOG/UNDERDOG STUDENT SEATS, a program that provides fully funded tickets to public school student groups, allowing them to see a world-class Broadway production of one of contemporary theater’s greatest plays.

With a generous lead grant from the Ford Foundation, sponsorship from Goldman Sachs and City National Bank, and additional support from the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, the TOPDOG/UNDERDOG STUDENT SEATS initiative will provide 3,000 tickets throughout the 16-week limited engagement at the Golden Theatre free of charge to students.

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG STUDENT SEATS will reach student groups from public high schools across the five boroughs, many of whom have been traditionally underrepresented in Broadway audiences. For some of these young people, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG will be their first Broadway show. The initiative will also welcome student groups from NYC community colleges and not-for-profit educational opportunity programs.  Additionally, some of the student groups will be able to engage with the show via talkbacks with members of the production.

 

For more information, educators can visit https://topdogunderdog.com/student-seats/

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11) Works & Process Announces November Programs at

Gibney Center, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,

Lincoln Center, and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Premieres by Les Ballet Afrik, Ephrat Asherie Dance,

and Masterz at Work Dance Family

Performances by Ladies of Hip-Hop and LayeRhythm

Dance Conversation with New York City Club Legends

Additional LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” Residencies across New York State

This November, Works & Process continues to amplify its support for performing artists and their creative process, producing residencies across New York State and presenting a robust series of programs at the Guggenheim Museum and expanding offerings to Gibney Center, Lincoln Center, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in partnership with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. All tickets are available now at www.worksandprocess.org.

In-Process Choreopoem Commission

Ladies of Hip-Hop: The Black Dancing Bodies Project

Thursday, November 3, 7:30 pm

Works & Process at Lincoln Center, Clark Studio Theater

Ticket Link - $35, Choose-What-You-Pay

An ongoing performance and documentary effort to represent Black women in street and club dance culture, this session highlights the choreopoem, first coined in 1975 by writer Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf). Led by Michele Byrd-McPhee, new writing, poetry by Ursula Rucker, and music and dance of street, club and African culture come together in this show-and-tell, culminating the Ladies of Hip-Hop’s Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at the Catskill Mountain Foundation.

Works & Process Commission

Les Ballet Afrik: New York Is Burning by Omari Wiles – World Premiere

Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 7:30 pm

Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Peter B. Lewis Theater

Ticket Link - $35, Choose-What-You- Pay

House of Oricci founding father and ballroom community legend Omari Wiles brings ballroom to the Guggenheim in the long-awaited premiere of New York Is Burning, commissioned by Works & Process, featuring Wiles’s AfrikFusion, which combines traditional African dances and Afrobeat with house dance and vogue.

The 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning received critical acclaim for its depiction of the New York drag ball scene and of voguing as a powerful expression of personal pride in the face of racism, homophobia, and the stigma of the AIDS crisis. Just as Paris Is Burning did for New York in the 1980s, New York Is Burning reflects the aspirations, desires, and yearnings of a diverse group of dancers in a city beset by health, racial, and financial crises.

Commissioned by Works & Process in 2019, prior to the pandemic, as an homage to Paris Is Burning on the documentary’s thirtieth anniversary, Wiles’s new work centers on the artists for whom his dance company serves as a surrogate family, including Kya Azeen, Eva Bust A’ Move, Algin Ford-Sterling, Alora Martinez, Shireen Rahimi, Milerka Rodriguez, Karma Stylz, Yuki Sukezane, and Yuhee Yang.

Wiles developed the Works & Process commission for his company, Les Ballet Afrik, in a summer 2020 Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a spring 2021 Works & Process bubble residency at Catskill Mountain Foundation, and a January 2022 Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residency at The Church, Sag Harbor in partnership with Guild Hall. Throughout this time, in some of New York State’s first permitted performances during the pandemic, Works & Process coproduced Les Ballet Afrik’s outdoor, filmed, and preview performances at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum rotunda. The company has performed previews at Jacob’s Pillow, New Victory Theater, and SummerStage.

Dance Conversations

Intergenerational Memories of New York City Club Dancers with Ephrat Asherie

Monday, November 7, 7 pm

Works & Process at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium

Ticket Link – Free with RSVP

In conjunction with the November 13 and 14 premiere of UNDERSCORED, choreographer Ephrat Asherie is working with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division to collect and archive oral histories from elders who helped create and usher in NYC’s underground dance scene in the 1970s and 1980s. In this program, legendary elders from the underground dance community will share their stories in conversation with Asherie. 

Works & Process Commission

“UNDERSCORED” by Ephrat Asherie Dance and NYC Club Legends

Sunday and Monday, November 13 and 14, 7:30 pm

Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Peter B. Lewis Theater

Ticket Link - $35, Choose-What-You-Pay

Commissioned by Works & Process, UNDERSCORED is a multi-faceted project that acts as a living archive of five generations of NYC club dancers. Rooted in the intergenerational stories and memories of NYC underground club heads, UNDERSCORED was created in collaboration with legendary elders from the underground dance community such as Archie Burnett, Michele Saunders, and Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune and Ephrat Asherie Dance company members Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, Manon Bal, Ron “Stealth-1” Chunn Jr., Teena Marie Custer, Val “Ms. Vee” Ho, and Matthew “Megawatt” West. The performers, ranging in age from 27 to 79, share lived experiences, stories, and vibes from seminal underground parties, including David Mancuso’s the Loft, Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage and Timmy Regisford’s Shelter. Featuring costumes by David Dalrymple and building on the intergenerational transference of knowledge and culturally reflective movement that happens night after night on dance floors across the city, UNDERSCORED explores the ever-changing physical and musical landscape of New York City’s underground dance community.

Commissioned by Works & Process in 2018, UNDERSCORED makes its long-awaited world premiere in the Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Guggenheim following a summer 2019 residency at LUMBERYARD, summer 2020 Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, a spring 2021 Works & Process bubble residency at Bridge Street Theatre with the support of the Mellon Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and May 2022 Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residency at Catskill Mountain Foundation. Throughout this time, in some of New York State’s first permitted performances during the pandemic, Works & Process coproduced outdoor, filmed, and preview performances of UNDERSCORED at Harlem Stage, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and in the Guggenheim Museum rotunda. During summer of 2022, in-process performances of UNDERSCORED were presented at the Vail Dance Festival and The Yard.

LayeRhythm (On The Move) with The Hood Lockers

In collaboration with 92NY and Hi-ARTS

Thursday, November 17, 7:30 pm

Works & Process at Gibney, Gibney Center 280, The Theater (Studio H)

Ticket Link - $35, Choose-What-You-Pay

Embodying the continuum of concert and social dance, LayeRhythm led by Mai Lê Hô weaves a singular mix of freestyle dance, live music, and audience interaction, celebrating the vibrancy of street and club dance cultures. Spotlighting The Hood Lockers, the evening will feature choreographed work from the company alongside improvisations by musicians, dancers and emcees, captivating young and old, theater and club goers.

LayeRhythm founder Mai Lê Hô weaves a singular mix of freestyle dance, live music, and audience interaction, celebrating the vibrancy of street and club dance cultures. Events feature choreographed work from guest companies alongside improvisations by musicians, dancers and emcees, captivating young and old, theater and club goers.

Third Thursdays this fall, Works & Process and 92NY, with community partner Hi-ARTS present “LayeRhythm (On The Move)” at the Guggenheim (9/15), The New York Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division (10/20), Gibney Center (11/17), and Lincoln Center (12/15).

Works & Process Commission

Masterz at Work Dance Family: ALL INCLUSIVE AND MORE by Courtney Washington Balenciaga, with The Masterz Ball in the rotunda

Presented with Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective

Monday, November 21 at 7:30 pm

Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Peter B. Lewis Theater and Rotunda

Ticket Link - $35, Choose-What-You-Pay

A legend within the ballroom community, founder of the Kiki House of Juicy Couture, leader of The House of Balenciaga, and this year’s Latex Ball Avis Penda’vis Angel Award winner, Black trans femme choreographer Courtney Washington Balenciaga creates dances that are a representation of resiliency, and which foster community in under-resourced areas of Brooklyn. Her new Works & Process commission, ALL INCLUSIVE AND MORE fuses street dance, street jazz, ballroom, vogue, and hip-hop. Informed by her own experience as a queer teenager who found refuge from teasing in dance, the work conveys how her gender transition spurred transformative emotional, creative, and physical liberation. An expansion of ALL INCLUSIVE, which was commissioned in 2020 and performed in the Guggenheim’s rotunda as performances were reopening in New York on March 31, 2021, this latest work furthers her ambitions toward shaping a more inclusive, fair, representative, and colorful world. Mya Donyale Bonilla, Producer and Programs Manager at Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective, will moderate the discussion with Courtney Washington Balenciaga.

In conjunction with the Guggenheim’s Member Mondays, this performance in the theater will continue into the rotunda with The Masterz Ball featuring commentating by Snookie Juicy West and music by DJ Byrell. All audience members are encouraged to participate in the ball, with categories including All Inclusive, Best Dressed, and Creative Expression.

Commissioned by Works & Process in 2020, this work was developed in a Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in March 2021. This work will also receive a two-week Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residency at Bethany Arts Community in November 2022, which will provide creative time and commissioning resources for Masterz at Work Dance Family and its uplifting and inspiring dancers Luis, Lamell “Jay Parel” Clemons, Jai’Quin Coleman, DeAndre Cousley, Mehki Cuffee, Rasheed “NewBorn” Lucas Jr., Guya Marie, Armani Moore, Dashaun “DayDay” Peals, and Brian Starke.

Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” Residencies

Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY

Masterz at Work Dance Family with Courtney Washington Balenciaga

November 7–19

Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY

Ladies of Hip-Hop

October 21–November 3

Indian Letters by Amar Ramasar and Preeti Vasudevan

November 6–14

Modern Accord Depot, Accord, NY

Jack Ferver, Lloyd Knight, and Jeremy Jacob

November 28–December 3

VENUES

Gibney Center

280 Broadway, New York, NY 10007

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Clark Studio Theater, Samuel B. and David Rose Building

165 West 65th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10023

Jerome Robbins Dance Division

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128

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12) ZviDance Presents

the World Premiere of

Migrations

at New York Live Arts

November 3-5, 2022

ZviDance (Zvi Gotheiner, Choreographer and Artistic Director) presents Migrations, an evening-length dance performance collaboration between Zvi Gotheiner, composer Scott Killian, lighting designer Mark London, and seven dancers. Migrations is in line with Gotheiner’s previous works that reflect on the collision of humanity with nature. In Migrations, Gotheiner will focus his creative attention on bird migration imagery and tendencies as a poetic mirroring for the current acceleration of human migration as a result of wars and the diminishing of life-sustaining resources due to global warming. Bird’s migration patterns are made in response to changes in food availability, habitat, or weather. These days, war is displacing people in Ukraine and the world is experiencing another wave of refugees. These concepts serve as a point of departure for the creation of Migrations. The choreography utilizes bird’s flocking imagery in the design of large group work, and flight imagery for the creation of trios and duets. Killian’s cinematic electronic score supports a sense of heroic struggle when traveling through the elements, while London’s light design will create landscapes that give the work a transitory sense of place. Migrations will have a live staged premiere on November 3-5, 2022 (Thu and Fri at 7:30pm, Sat at 2pm and 7:30pm) at at New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St., New York, NY. Tickets are $25 general admission and $18 for students and seniors and are available for purchase at newyorklivearts.org/event/migrations.

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