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'Imagine This' to Premiere at New London Theatre this Fall - 11/4/2008
IMAGINE THIS, the new musical, will have its premiere at the New London Theatre in the West End on Wednesday 19 November, following previews from 4 November.
Set in Poland during 1942, a group of actors in the Warsaw Ghetto stage plays to inspire hope and optimism within their community. However, with rumours of the Final Solution in the air, their play merges with the reality they are trying to escape and a dramatic love story unfolds.
IMAGINE THIS has music by Shuki Levy and book & lyrics by Glenn Berenbeim and David Goldsmith. IMAGINE THIS will be directed by Timothy Sheader, the new artistic director of the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park. The scenic design is by Eugene Lee (triple Tony Award-winner for “Wicked”, “Sweeney Todd” and “Candide”) and the costume design is by Ann Hould-Ward (Tony Award-winner for “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast”). The choreography is by Liam Steel, best known for his work with Complicité, DV8 and Frantic Assembly. With lighting design by Tim Mitchell, orchestrations are by Chris Walker and musical supervision by Phil Bateman.
Performance times for IMAGINE THIS at the New London Theatre are Mondays to Saturdays at 7.30pm, with Thursday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm. Tickets, priced from £17.50 - £60.00, with preview tickets from £7.50 - £50.00, are available from the New London Theatre Box Office on 0844 412 4654.
IMAGINE THIS will be produced in London by Beth Trachtenberg, Anita Mann, Leigh Mason, Jean Mason and ICW Productions in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.
Visit the IMAGINE THIS website at www.ImagineThisTheMusical.com.
Joan Rivers Brings Her Stand Up Back to New York at the Cutting Room For Charity - 11/4/2008
Joan Rivers brings her stand up act back to New York on Election Day November 4 at The Cutting Room. She will perform there through December 17.
After a 4 month hiatus (following a successful run of her autobiographical play on London's West End), legendary comedian Joan Rivers returns to New York with her live stand-up act. Join Rivers as she presents an evening of her newest and most outrageous stand-up comedy and riffs on Hollywood, pop culture, celebrities, and award show fashions. Rivers plays at The Cutting Room in Chelsea on the following schedule:
- Tuesday, November 4 at 8pm
- Wednesday, November 5 at 8pm
- Friday, November 7 at 10:30pm
- Wednesday, November 19 at 8pm
- Wednesday, December 10 at 8pm
- Wednesday, December 17 at 8pm
Tickets are $30 with a portion of the proceeds going to Joan Rivers' favorite charities: God's Love We Deliver and Guide Dogs for the Blind. The Cutting Room is located at 19 West 24th (accessible from the N,R,F,V & 6 trains at 23rd Street). For reservations call 212-352-3101 or visit www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
Described as a post-menopausal Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers delivers a raunchy, politically incorrect evening of stand-up comedy. One of the hardest working women in show business, she is a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, Emmy Award-winning television talk-show host, jewelry designer, business woman and mother to "what's-her-name" Melissa. She is on the board of God's Love We Deliver, National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and gives lectures around the world on suicide prevention and survival. With her trademark mix of outspoken wit, savvy and compassion, she continues to be one of America's most admired first ladies of comedy.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Joan Rivers "made the rounds" in New York during the '50s, appearing in a few off-off Broadway plays (including one where she played a lesbian opposite an equally unknown Barbra Streisand), surviving sleazy agents, tawdry clubs, and hostile audiences. A 1965 booking on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" led to her hosting one of the first syndicated talk shows on daytime TV, "That Show with Joan Rivers" in 1968. In the '70s Joan wrote the TV-movie The Girl Most Likely To (starring Stockard Channing) and then wrote and directed her first feature film Rabbit Test, casting Billy Crystal in the lead. In 1983 Joan became the permanent guest host on "The Tonight Show." Later, she headlined in Las Vegas, sold out Carnegie Hall, produced a Grammy nominated comedy album, and wrote two best-selling books. In 1989 the Tribune Corporation launched Joan in her own syndicated daytime talk show. She won an Emmy and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1994 she wrote and starred on Broadway in Sally Marr and Her Escorts, for which she received a Best Actress Tony nomination. Since then, Joan has written three more best-selling books, maintains her own jewelry line on QVC, provided fashion commentaries for E! and The TV Guide Channel, and filmed a special for Bravo
