Additional Casting Announced For York Theatre Company's BOYNTON BEACH CLUB Reading

The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) announces additional casting for Boynton Beach Club, the next offering in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series. For this reading, reservations are now being accepted only via waitlist.

Boynton Beach Club
Book by Susan Seidelman
Music by Ned Paul Ginsburg; Lyrics by Michael Colby
Thursday, November 19, 2009 • 3 PM
Friday, November 20, 2009 • 3 PM

Boynton Beach Club features Lewis Cleale (Spamalot, Amour) who joins the previously announced: Tyrone Aiken, Adinah Alexander (The Wedding Singer), Bethe Austin, Joan Barber (Follies), Stephen Berger (The Pajama Game), Susan Bigelow (Footloose), Tovah Feldshuh (Irena's Vow), Jerold Goldstein (How to Succeed...), Jeff Keller (The Phantom of the Opera), Heather MacRae (A Catered Affair), Tim Shew (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cheryl Stern (The Women). Gabriel Barre (The Wild Party) directs.

Visit sunny Florida and join the surprisingly sexy and often hilarious members of the Boynton Beach community, who demonstrate that life after 50 isn't what it used to be. Boynton Beach Club is a funny, tuneful and poignant musical about aging Baby Boomers who overcome life's sorrows and dive back into the dating pool. Book by Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan), music by Ned Paul Ginsburg (orchestrator for Liza's at the Palace) and lyrics by Michael Colby (Charlotte Sweet).

The York Theatre Company was nominated for five 2009 Drama Desk Awards, four Lucille Lortel Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Drama League Awards for its productions of Enter Laughing, The Musical and My Vaudeville Man! last season. York Theatre Company is one of the only companies in the city committed to developing and producing new Musical Theatre Works and rediscovering musical gems from the past. Winner of a special Drama Desk Award for developing and producing new musical theatre, York's intimate, imaginative style of producing both original and classic musicals has resulted in critical acclaim and recognition from artists and audiences alike for almost four decades. Under the guidance of Artistic Director James Morgan since 1997, the York has focused exclusively on new musicals in its Mainstage Series-most of them world, American or New York premieres-by some of the field's most esteemed creators and has also helped launch the careers of many talented new writers.

Each year, York's Developmental Reading Series presents between 30 to 40 readings and workshops of new musicals by emerging and established authors, all free of charge and open to the public. Reading Series Coordinator Jeff Landsman says, "These readings give writers a unique opportunity to get audience feedback while a show is still in progress and gives audiences an active role in the creative process." York's productions of Souvenir and The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) were first developed in the Developmental Reading Series, where the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Avenue Q also made early appearances. The Developmental Reading Series is made possible in part by The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

GENERAL INFO:

Boynton Beach Club
Thursday, November 19, 2009 • 3 PM
Friday, November 20, 2009 • 3 PM

For reservations visit www.yorktheatre.org or call 212-935-5824 x24.
THE York Theatre Company in Saint Peter's Church
Enter on 54th Street Just East of Lexington
E or V train to Lexington Avenue or 6 train to 51st Street

The York Theater Company
619 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
www.yorktheatre.org

Photo credit: Joseph F. Panarello