Bill Connington and Caden Jones Lead PYGMALION at Colonial Dames Museum House Today

Award-winning actors Bill Connington (ZOMBIE) and Cadden Jones (WEST SIDE STORY) will appear in the sparkling George Bernard Shaw comedy PYGMALION today, November 12th at the Colonial Dames Museum House at 215 East 71st Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues). Cocktails are at 6 pm; the performance will be at 7 pm. The evening is produced by Razors Edge Productions and benefits historic Van Cortlandt House Museum in Van Cortlandt Park. Tickets are $75 each, or two for $125. 212-744-3572.

Bill Connington won several awards for acting in the play and short film versions of ZOMBIE, based on the novella by literary giant Joyce Carol Oates. Cadden Jones has been seen as the lead in WEST SIDE STORY and THE MUSIC MAN, as well as in LAW & ORDER SVU and BLUE BLOODS. Connington and Jones were trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts respectively. Also in the cast are Brian Charles Rooney, who starred on Broadway in THE THREEPENNY OPERA, and recently Off-Broadway in BEDBUGS, Carole Monferdini who starred in VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM, THE CLUB, and FULL GALLOP, and Paul Niebanck who most recently performed with Kathleen Chalfant in A WALK IN THE WOODS for the Keen Company on Theater Row.

PYGMALION is the beloved Shaw comedy about the Cockney flower girl transformed into a glamorous Society figure by a professor of phonetics. The play was famously adapted into the hit musical MY FAIR LADY.

Razors Edge Productions has produced THE DINING ROOM, A CHEEVER EVENING, LOVE LETTERS, PRIVATE LIVES, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and ART in New York. It also produced ZOMBIE at the New York International Fringe Festival, and two other extended Off-Broadway runs, as well as the short film ZOMBIE, which screened at 22 film festivals, and won 5 awards.

The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York is dedicated to educating the public about life in Colonial America, and helping to preserve historically significant properties. Van Cortlandt House is the oldest building in the Bronx (built in 1748), is a National Historic Landmark, and was the headquarters of General George Washington in the Battle of White Plans. www.nscdny.org/headquarters-dumbarton/van-cortland/