Charlotte D’Amboise, Philip Michael Baskerville, et al. Set for SECONDARY IMPACT Reading, 3/15

SECONDARY IMPACT, a play with dance, will have an industry only invited rehearsal on Thursday, March 15 in NYC. Conceived and choreographed by JoAnn M. Hunter (ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER), the piece has music by David Dabbon (SONDHEIM AND SONDHEIM), book by Christine Toy Johnson (TRANSCENDING –THE WAT MISAKA STORY), and is directed by Tony-award winning actress, Michele Pawk.

The cast includes Tony Award nominated actress Charlotte D'Amboise (A CHORUS LINE, CHICAGO), Philip Michael Baskerville (THE PRODUCERS, CATS), Brian O'Brien (CHICAGO), Deidre Goodwin (SILENCE: THE MUSICAL, A CHORUS LINE), Miquel Jarquin-Moreland ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"), DhaRon Jones, Kristine Bendul, Colin Bradbury, Todd Burnsed, Lisa Gajda, Liz Ramos, and Ryan Worsing. Musicians are Meg Zervoulis (piano) and Peter Saleh (percussion.)

SECONDARY IMPACT is the story of Olivia, a veteran Broadway dancer at the top of her game, who had it all until a career ending injury at 45 suddenly pushed her way past "over the hill". At odds with losing so much: her identity as a dancer and the emotional capacity to be the glue her family has always counted on, Olivia finds herself grappling with no longer fitting in at all the places she used to call home. Enter James, an ex-football star with Chronic Traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) sustained from repetitive brain injury, on his way back from his own brink of despair -- yet also moving towards irreparable decline. They form a deep and unlikely friendship: two survivors from different corners of the world who fall down and learn to pick each other - and themselves - up, in their own certain ways.

Dance segments are a vital and integral part of the way the story is told. They personify Olivia and James's triumphs and losses; what they can't remember and what they can't forget, moving the story forward through the characters' inner thoughts, desires and intentions.