59E59 Theaters welcomes Pegasus Theatre with the US premiere of BEWARE OF YOUNG GIRLS: KATE DIMBLEBY SINGS THE DORY PREVIN STORY, created and performed by Kate Dimbleby, accompanied by Naadia Sheriff on piano. Written with Amy Rosenthal, and directed by Cal McCrystal, BEWARE OF YOUNG GIRLS begins performances on Tuesday, December 16 for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 4. Press opening is Thursday, December 18 at 7:15 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:15 PM; Friday at 8:15 PM; Saturday at 5:15 PM & 8:15 PM; and Sunday at 3:15 PM & 7:15 PM. Please note, there is no performance on December 25; the performances on December 24 and December 31 are at 6:15 PM. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $35 ($24.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.
Queen of 1970s confessional songwriters,
Dory Previn was perhaps best known for being the woman her husband, Andre Previn, left for a considerably younger
Mia Farrow. But
Dory Previn was much more than a jilted wife. Stars such as Tony Bennet,
Frank Sinatra,
Rosemary Clooney and
Doris Day included Previn's songs in their repertoire. By the 1970s, Previn found her voice in the blistering but witty confessional songs-filled with uncompromising tales of love and loneliness-that made her a cult icon.
BEWARE OF YOUNG GIRLS celebrates the little-known life (and extraordinary songbook) of this enigmatic performer, whose story remains vital even 40 years after the release of Mythical Kings and Iguanas, Previn's most successful album. As Kate Dimbleby says, "We are all 40-year old brunettes."
Kate Dimbleby (creator/performer) has released five albums, sold out the Festival Hall, toured internationally and appeared regularly on national radio. Her second album, Ain't This Cosy, inspired by the life and music of
Peggy Lee and recorded with the Geoff Eales trio, was released in 2000 to accompany a 50-date sell-out national tour of her one-woman show Fever! The Making of
Peggy Lee, written by Lucy Powell. The show went on to tour Australia and New Zealand and Kate was asked to devise a show with the BBC Big Band at the Festival Hall in 2003, which went on to tour theaters around the UK. Kate and her trio ("So tight they're almost vacuum-packed!" Time Out) went on to devise Music to Watch Boys By with director
Cal McCrystal. A whistle-stop musical tour of the Seven Ages of Man including songs by
Tom Waits,
Dean Martin,
Elvis Costello and Queen, had highly successful runs in London and Edinburgh and played several festivals in Australia and New Zealand. In 2003, Kate moved to Vancouver Island in Canada with her husband where she wrote an album of original songs and rediscovered her own voice after several years of playing
Peggy Lee. Returning to the UK, the next few years were spent writing and performing her own songs, training as an Alexander Technique teacher, having two children and recording and collaborating with other artists and songwriters. In 2009, Kate released Things As They Are, an album of original songs recorded with her original band. They went on to play venues throughout the UK and at the end of 2010 Kate devised a new cabaret show I'm a Woman, a celebration of all the women singers who have inspired her, five years after the birth of her first daughter. The show ran for 5 weeks at the New End Theatre, North London to great reviews. One of the songs from the show, "Lady with the Braid," gained particular interest and that encouraged Kate and pianist Naadia Sheriff to collaborate on a new project. Their album Beware of Young Girls: The Songs of
Dory Previn was released in May 2012 to critical acclaim and the live show was developed initially for the newly re-opened Leicester Square Hippodrome in July 2012. It has since toured the UK and is now making its US premiere at
59E59 Theaters. Kate's debut album Good Vibrations was released by Black Box Music in 1998. Her love of cabaret resulted in a residency as host and singer at Soho's exclusive club Kabaret as well as frequent guest spots at Lenny Beige's Regency Rooms and Madame Jo Jo's in Soho. Her most recent album, Kate Dimbleby and Friends: Love Comes Again, is a collection of covers and originals recorded with her own band and guest musicians including Cantabile-The London Quartet and indie songwriter Jay Fisher.
Cal McCrystal (director) was born in Belfast and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama and at École Philippe Gaulier. As an actor he has worked extensively in television, theatre, film and radio. Cal has co-created the last 4 shows for Kate Dimbleby. As a writer/director his productions are regularly seen worldwide. He is Physical Comedy Director for the
Royal National Theatre's West End and Broadway hit, One Man, Two Guvnors and is Comedy Director for the acclaimed clown routines in
Cirque du Soleil's touring circus, Varekai and erotic cabaret, Zumanity, now enjoying its 10th successful year in Las Vegas. He directed the original Mighty Boosh shows, winning the Perrier Award for Best New Comedy. He has directed productions for British repertory theatres, London's South Bank and
Barbican Centres and has written and directed countless touring shows, working regularly for companies such as Peepolykus, Palazzo, The Comedians Theatre Company and, most notably, Spymonkey. Cal also works as a television director and since making his first feature film, The Bubonic Play, he works recurrently as a comedy consultant on major movies in the UK and in the US, including The Dictator, The World's End, Man Up, Paddington Bear and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, in which he also appears as Principal Conway.
Amy Rosenthal (writer) is an acclaimed playwright whose work includes: The Ballad of
Martha Brown (co-written with Angel Exit Theatre) UK tour Spring 2014; The Tailor Made Man - A New Musical, Arts Theatre 2013; Beware of Young Girls: The
Dory Previn Story (co-written with Kate Dimbleby), Leicester Square Hippodrome 2012; The Man Who Came to Brunch, 66 Books Season,
Bush Theatre 2011; Liberation, Yad Arts,
Tricycle Theatre 2011; The Workroom (adapt.) RADA 2010; Jitterbug Blitz, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith 2009; On the Rocks, Hampstead Theatre 2008 (shortlisted for the
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); A Handbag, Old Vic 24 Hours Plays Celebrity Gala 2007; Daring Pairings, Hampstead Theatre 2007; Sitting Pretty, Watford Palace Theatre 2005, UK Tour and Hypothetical Theatre, New York 2001; Jerusalem Syndrome, Soho Theatre 2000; Henna Night (Winner of the Sunday Times Drama Award, Scarborough Festival 1999) Chelsea Theatre 2001; Lifelines, Royal Court Young Writers Festival 1996. Radio work includes an adaptation of
Jack Rosenthal's Bar Mitzvah Boy (2011); a four-part adaptation of the autobiography
Jack Rosenthal's Last Act (2007), and her radio play Little Words (2001) all for BBC Radio 4. Amy's short film, That Woman, premiered at the UK Jewish Film Festival in 2012. Current projects include a chamber opera about
Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain (commissioned by Nova Music, composer Charlotte Bray) touring 2015; and a new musical.
