Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham will star in a one-night-only performance of The Mail Order Bride - a new comedy by Charles L. Mee - to benefit Resonance Ensemble's 2006 season. The benefit performance of The Mail Order Bride will be presented on Monday, March 27 with a 6:00pm reception and a 7:30pm performance at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street) in Manhattan.
The Mail Order Bride, also featuring
Deborah S. Craig, involves an older man (Abraham) who orders up a young Asian bride (Craig) much to the outrage of his family and friends.
The reading will be directed by Resonance Ensemble Artistic Director Eric Parness. In addition to Abraham (Oscar-winner for
Amadeus, on Broadway in
Triumph of Love, Angels in America and more) and Craig (
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), it will feature Kelly Aucoin (
Julius Caesar),
John Cariani (
Fiddler on the Roof), Matthew Cowles (
Sweet Bird of Youth), Jennifer Mudge (
Reckless), and others TBA.
Multi-award winning playwright Charles L. Mee's works include:
Wintertime (La Jolla, Long Wharf, the Guthrie, Second Stage, etc);
bobrauschenbergamerica (BAM - Next Wave Festival, Bonn Festival);
Snow in June (American Repertory Theatre);
Big Love (La Jolla, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman Theatre, etc - 2002 OBIE Award-winner);
True Love (the Zipper, the Holland Festival);
First Love (New York Theatre Workshop, San Francisco's Magic Theatre); and
Summertime (San Francisco's Magic Theatre - 2001 SF Bay Area Critics Circle Award). Mee's complete works are available on the Internet at
www.charlesmee.org. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.
"Under the Artistic Direction of Eric Parness and Managing Direction of Rachel Reiner, Resonance Ensemble is dedicated to developing new theatrical work inspired by the timelessness and universalism of the classics, and to producing resonating groups of theatrical presentations that echo across countless cultures and eras to confront themes and ideas significant to audiences of today," according to press notes.
Tickets are $80 ($70 of which is tax deductible) and are available for purchase online at www.ResonanceEnsemble.org (through Paypal), or by check made payable to Resonance Ensemble and sent to Resonance Ensemble, P.O. Box 771, Times Square Station, New York, NY 10108. Checks must be received by March 24.
For additional information, please call Resonance Ensemble at 646-263-6673, or visit
www.resonanceensemble.org.
