Mighty Little Productions is proud to present Monroe Bound, by Lucile Scott, in July as part of the Midtown International Festival. Monroe Bound debuted in 2007 at the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of the Fresh Fruit Festival, where it won the award for best actor. The play follows the lives of Lexington Monroe, a 20 something girl living in New York's "formerly gritty" East Village in 2004 and her father Alvin, who resides in a small Georgia town. Lexington and Alvin both have a tendency towards looking for love in all the wrong places and Lexington soon finds herself smitten with Pace, a charismatic but secretive female photographer, while Alvin attempts to come to terms with failed affairs from his past. And Alvin and Lexington both have secrets--and secrets destroy! Just like the rest of us, they're trying to figure out their place in the world, in this quirky tale that spans from Georgia to New York, from Communist microbrew to The Princess of Power, and from staying stuck in the past to moving right along.
The show stars Krista Dane Hoffman as Lexington and Thomas Poarch, as her father, Alvin, returning in the role for which he won Best Actor in the 2007 Fresh Fruit Festival. The show also features Thea McCartan (Nudists in Love, Macbeth Looking Glass Theatre, Four Dripping Cats HERE/Lincoln Center Directors Lab) Scout Durwood (A Shot at Love, On My Reel: Real Life in Reality TV ) Michael Munoz (Naked Boys Singing) Kristin Ciccone (recipient Wettstien Award for acting) and Brian Whisenant (Hungry Years, Special Needs). Director Steven Gillenwater's is Associate Producer of Subjective Theater Company and his work has been seen at venues including The Ohio Theatre and American Place Theatre.
Monroe Bound will appear at the Mainstage Theatre 312 W. 36th St., 4th Fl. Monday July 13th at 6:30 p.m., Friday July 17th at 9:00 p.m., Friday July 24th at 9:00 p.m., Saturday July 25th at 3:00 p.m., and Saturday August 1st at 11:00 a.m. Tickets $18. For online purchase, visit midtownfestival.org or call 866-811-4111
Mighty Little Productions, an award winning, collaboration based theatre company dedicated developing original narrative work in the spirit of levity with a focus on social change. We are founded on the notion that through collaboration we, as a collective, become bigger than the sum of our parts and the belief that comedy will save the world, not commerce.
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