SaltSpeck Productions presents a showcase production of Madam Fury's Traveling Show. Performances will take place from September 2 through September 8 at the 45th Street Theatre (354 W. 45th Street). Official Opening is set for Sunday, September 2 at 8pm.
Living with her mother on their farm in Oklahoma, Lillian's one wish is to find her absent father. With depression, desperation, and the dust bowl all around her, she finds herself transported from her 1930s life to the fantastical world of Madam Fury's Traveling Show, a magical circus in the dust. Amidst the curious characters, including the alluring, but mysterious namesake, Lillian must discover who her father truly was, who she is, and who she wants to become.
Valerie Fagan (Forbidden Broadway Rude Awakening, The Addams Family) plays the title character of Madam Fury, with Hollis Scarborough (Hairspray Las Vegas, Trails at NYMF) playing the lead character of Lillian. Kelvin Moon Loh (American Idiot National Tour) will play the Old Sage, with Nikki MacCallum (Matchmaker Matchmaker I'm Willing to Settle) as Doppel, Sidney Erik Wright (Disney’s Finding Nemo) as Ganger, Doug Thompson (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels National Tour) as The Ringmaster, Jacob Hoffman (I’ll Be Damned at the Vineyard Theatre) as Thomas, Lindsay Morgan as the Countess of Circumference, and Christopher deProphetis (South Pacific National Tour) as Atlas. The Ensemble includes Jenny Paul, Brent McBeth (Encores! No, No, Nanette), Amy Shure (Cats National Tour), Julia Menn, and Dominic Sellers.
Kristen Beth Williams (Rosie, Nice Work If You Can Get It) choreographs. Samantha Saltzman directs. Aaron Jodoin is the music director.
Christy Hall is a New York City-based writer and actor. Her writing includes stage plays (Yours, Isabel; To Quiet the Quiet), books for musicals (Trails), and screenplays (Little Iron Men, Midnight Special, The Sun From Both Sides). As an actor, she recently starred in the world premiere of her own World War II-era play Yours, Isabel at the Edinburgh Festival FRINGE in Scotland. www.christyhall.com
Composer Jeff Thomson is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, as well as the Dramatist Guild Musical Theatre Writing Fellowship. His original musical Trails was performed at the 2010 Los Angeles Festival for New Americans Musicals as well as the New York Musical Theatre Festival winning him the 2010 NYMF award for excellence in music as well as the prestigious Stage Entertainment Development Award. Other projects include Virtually Me! for TheatreworksUSA, a pop musical adaptation of the cult film Jawbreaker (book-writer Darren Stein), and a rock musical adaptation of Allan Moyle's Pump Up the Volume (Book and lyrics by Jeremy Desmon).
Jordan Mann is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, as well as the Dramatist Guild Musical Theatre Writing Fellowship. His original musical Trails was performed at the 2010 Los Angeles Festival for New Americans Musicals as well as the New York Musical Theatre Festival where it received 2010 NYMF citation for excellence in lyric writing as well as the prestigious Stage Entertainment Development Award. Other projects include Virtually Me! for TheatreworksUSA, and a pop musical adaptation of the cult film Jawbreaker (book-writer Darren Stein).
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