Cast Announced for CHANCE at Fresh Fruit Festival

CAST ANNOUNCED for CHANCE - A New Musical Play about Love, Risk, and Getting It Right!

Written by Richard Isen
Inspired by the Writings of Oscar Wilde
Direction by Jonathan Cerullo
Musical Direction by Evan Alparone

Featuring Craig Sculli as Greg and Matt Zanfagna as "Chance."

Part of the Fresh Fruit Festival, presented by All Out Arts to celebrate the LGBTQ community's unique perspective, creativity & diversity, and to build links between the LGBTQ artistic communities, be they local or international. Tickets are $18 and available athttps://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/527

Performing Wednesday, July 20, 6:00 pm; Thursday, July 21, 9:00 pm; and Saturday, July 23rd, 3:30 pm at the Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street

After suffering a stroke, a strange door opens into his life of a middle-aged gay psychologist who has spent his adult life denying the loss he experienced as a young man during the AIDS crisis. In walks a mysterious, glamorous "lady" who urges him to engage with a male escort named Chance. Is this Lady real? And is life about to change for Greg? Or is she a figment from his now damaged psyche?

This is the New York musical premiere, produced by Anne Nygren Doherty, artistic director of the New Musical Theatre of San Francisco, where the show originated.

Richard Isen is author of A Fine & Private Place with Erik Haagensen, which premiered at the York Theatre in 2006 and is published by Samuel French. He composed music for film and television, earning him an Emmy nomination for original music. Director Jonathan Cerrulo most recently won Best Director for Fictitious, a new musical by Paul Cozby and Tom Hyndman for Theatre Now New York.