Bick Goss and Frank Evans, Producing Artistic Directors, and Stephen Hanks, Board President of Musical Mondays Theater Lab, Inc. have announced that the organization's second new musical preview of the fall 2011-2012 season will be the premiere of SPOOLIE GIRL on Thursday, November 17th at 6:30 PM at the Jerry Orbach Theater in the Snapple Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street.
The Musical Director is John DiPinto, who has been the Associate Conductor of Footloose on Broadway, Associate conductor of Langston In Harlem Off-Broadway and Music Director of I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking On the Road for the York Theatre MUFTI series. The book, music and lyrics are by the team of Rosemary Loar and Robert Atwood
The SPOOLIE GIRL cast includes:
Rosemary Loar (Fairy Rock Mother) also the composer, lyricist, and book writer, has become one of New York's most accomplish cabaret singer/performers, is an ASACP award winner and was in the Original Broadway cast of Once Upon A Mattress(with Sarah Jessica Parker,) Sunset Boulevard (with Glenn Close) and Chess (ABBA). On Broadway she has appeared in Cats (Grizabella) and Off -Broadway in The Audience (The Drama Desk Award winning Transport Group).
Alyse Alan Louis (Spoolie Girl), who on Broadway has played the role of Sophie in Mamma Mia, Janet Dickinson (Darla), who has appeared on Broadway in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and 9 to 5: The Musical, and was the winner of the 2011 NYMF Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in Madame X, Lennie Watts (Delta Pink), who is an eight-time MAC Award Winner (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs, for which he is also Board President) and has appeared in the musicals such as The Drowsy Chaperone, Guys and Dollsand Chicago. Featured cast members include MAC and Bistro-Award Winner Raissa Katona Bennett (Christine Daae in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway), Glenn Turner (original Broadway cast of Five Guys Named Mo, Grand Hotel and High Society), Jacob Richard and Andrew Deichman.
Under the guidance of Producing Artistic Directors Bick Goss and Frank Evans, and Board President Stephen Hanks, Musical Mondays Theatre Lab is celebrating its 13th year presenting a first look at new musicals at the Snapple Theater Center where the record-breaking runs of The Fantasticks and Perfect Crime currently play. Writers whose early work debuted at Musical Mondays include Tony® Winners Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Ave Q), Tony and Pulitzer Prize Winners Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), Drama Desk nominee Eric Weinberger and Kleban Prize Winner Beth Falcone (Wanda's World), and Outer Critics Award Winner Andy Monroe (The Kid). Last spring, Musical Mondays presented a reading of The Fartiste, now appearing Off-Broadway at Sofia's Downstairs Theater.
Single admission is $18.00. (Season Subscription of four shows is $60.) For reservations, call 212 989-6706 or email musicalmondays@aol.com.
