30 Days Of NYMF: Day 4 THE CURE

The Cure
By Mark Weiser, story and songs

Having spent my wayward youth around the club scene, I have seen my share of sexy tableaus, complete with steamy, writhing bodies. Then I got a look at the cast of my rock n roll fable, THE CURE. Now yes, it's a vampire story, and vampires these days seem to be the hotness-du-jour, but wow. This room is like Transylvania 90210. I am hard pressed to recall a hotter group of people.

And then I closed my eyes, and listened to them sing as a group. Three words. Wall. Of. Sound. Imagine the Vampire Diaries, if they sounded like Bon Jovi. Or looked like Bon Jovi.

But the best part of all of this is these actors actually resemble New York. Isn't everyone tired of those cookie-cutter casts? Rows of sameness, with the one token ensemble member stuck in the back? Our cast is white, black, Latino, and Asian. Male and female. Jew and Gentile. Straight and gay. Tall and short. The REAL New York. But hotter. Much, much hotter. We are blessed to have Broadway aces like Manu Narayan (BOMBAY DREAMS), Michael Buchanan (CRY-BABY) and Gregg Goodbrod (THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE) right alongside the next wave of theater rockers - Zak Resnick, Kyle Harris and Jen Sese (MAMMA MIA Las Vegas), all joining forces to tell this exciting, dark, wild, vampiric story.

It's taken a long road to get here. Starting in those aforementioned club days, we did our first major reading of THE CURE back in 1999 at the legendary club, LIMELIGHT, for a crowd of 1000 screaming people. After that, we had more readings at New York Theater Workshop (birthplace of RENT) and Le Bar Bat (another great NYC nightspot) until we found ourselves here, in 2009, the year of the VAMPIRE. EveryoNe You turn these days, there's nothing but beautiful vampires adorning the cineplex (TWILIGHT), the TV (TRUE BLOOD) and even the local Barnes & Noble (take your pick...). And so, here I sit at rehearsal, wondering which is prettier- Bill Compton, Edward Cullen, or our fabulous CURE gang. I know my vote. What's yours?