Somerled Charitable Foundation in association with Wendy Macdonald and Paige Price will present a private reading of the new musical Time After Time, based on the novel by Karl Alexander. The reading will take place Friday, August 28, 2009.
Time After Time (book and lyrics by Stephen Cole and music by Jeffrey Saver) will be directed by Gabriel Barre (The Wild Party, Pippin), with musical direction by Peter Eldridge (New York Voices) and casting by Moss, Kale, Anastasi. Time After Time is a romantic thriller that pits the real life HG Wells against Jack the Ripper as they both travel in Wells' time machine from Victorian England to New York in 2010.
The reading stars Andy Karl (9 to 5, Legally Blonde) as HG Wells, Matt Bogart (Jersey Boys, Aida) as John Leslie Stephenson, Lauren Kennedy (Vanities, Spamalot) as Amy Robbins and Mandy Gonzalez (In the Heights, Lennon) as Carol Green. Rounding out the cast are Jennifer Rae Beck, Caitlyn Caughell, Alison Cimmet, Donald Corren, Peter Cormican, Roger DeWitt, Madeline Duffy-Feines, Eric Michael Gillett, Mitch Greenberg, John Leone, Jillian Louis, Anne Tolpegin, Stephanie Umoh and Robin S. Walker. Stage Manager is Erica Schwartz.
Stephen Cole's credits include After The Fair, The Night of the Hunter, Casper and The Road to Qatar!, which will have its world premier this fall. Jeffrey Saver, whose previous collaboration with Cole was Dodsworth, has written and arranged material for Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth, Christine
Baranski, Joel Gray and many others. As a musical director and/or pianist, Saver's credits include thirteen Broadway shows, including Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Into the Woods.
Time After Time was previously presented as part of the American Musical Theatre Project at Northwestern University in 2007. There will be a full production at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA this winter, directed by Barre.
The Somerled Charitable Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation. Somerled was created in 2005 to support the arts and organizations providing assistance to children in the areas, of education, medicine and the arts. Please visit, www.SomerledCharitableFoundation.org
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