If Wishes Were Horses to Have Off-Bway Premiere, June 7

Right Down Broadway Productions will present the world premiere of the Off-Broadway production If Wishes Were Horses by Kari Floren beginning previews at Altered Stages (located at 212 West 29th Street) on June 7th, opening June 9th and closing on June 30th for a four week run.

If Wishes Were Horses is, according to press materials, "about Doug, a downsized Human Resources exec who needs a job. His wife Karen is a teacher who has been supporting him for a year. With one disappointment after another, Doug begins to unravel after Karen's Father has to move in with them. Using Phil Mickelson's tortured odyssey to the pinnacle of stardom as inspiration, Doug pulls himself up by the bootstraps and starts creating new business opportunities for himself…that no one supports.  If Wishes Were Horses wonders whether these three people can get out of the rough and on with their lives…without killing each other."

Playwright Kari Floren recently wrote the Right Down Broadway Productions Off-Broadway show The Porch. Other productions include: Incidental Lives (New Avenue Theatre Project at Synchronicity Space), A Late Supper (Off-Broadway at the Maverick Theater), and Voices of Swords (currently in development with actress Elizabeth Franz). She is a Co-Founder of Right Down Broadway Productions. The play so far stars Broadway veteran Michael McKenzie who has appeared on Broadway in Waiting in the Wings at the Eugene O'Neill, The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Roundabout, and Eastern Standard at the Golden Theater. He was also the nefarious lawyer William Emerson on "One Life to Live" and "All My Children."

Gibson directed Craig Lucas' Blue Window at Atlantic Theatre Studio and the 28th Street Theatre; Bliss by Ben Bettenbender at the Rattlestick Theatre; the American premiere of Judith Thompson's Habitat with the Epic Theatre Company; and the premiere production of Ki Gottberg's The Hairy Baby.

Performances run Mondays – Saturdays at 8 PM, Tuesdays at 7 PM and Saturdays at 2 PM. Tickets are $20 during previews and $40 after opening and can be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212.868.4444 or by going to www.smarttix.com. For more information on Right Down Broadway Productions, please visit www.rightdownbroadway.org.