Boomerang Presents LOVELESS TEXAS 10/29-11/4

The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director; Sue Abbott, Managing Director), in collaboration with Big Fish Big Pond Productions, will present a workshop of the new musical LOVELESS, TEXAS October 29th-November 4th. LOVELESS, TEXAS has music and lyrics by Henry Aronson (Broadway's ROCK OF AGES) and libretto by Cailin Heffernan (Boomerang's VENUS OBSERVED, ANNA CHRISTIE). The workshop will culminate in a private industry only presentation on November 4th at The Peter J. Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street). Heffernan will direct the workshop.

LOVELESS, TEXAS is a romantic musical comedy set in Texas in 1929. The book is loosely based on Shakespeare's Loves Labors Lost, and the Americana-flavored score ranges from Texas swing to bluegrass, blues, and Cajun waltz. The all-star cast includes Tony Award winner Jarrod Emick, Brandon Wardell (Off Broadway's EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL), Jenn Colella (Broadway's HIGH FIDELITY), Katie Rose Clarke (Broadway's THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA), Heath Calvert (Broadway's BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON), Sarah Glendening (TV's 'As The World Turns'), Jeremy Woodard (Broadway's ROCK OF AGES), Amanda Lea Lavergne, Jason Loughlin and Kelly Maier.

Cailin Heffernan has directed and/or choreographed Off Broadway and regionally, including Capital Rep, Jewish Repertory, Folksbiene, New Jersey Repertory, Bay Street and Naked Angels. She is the Resident Director of Texas Family Musicals. Her plays include REBEL HEARTS and BLOOD DRINKER.

Henry Aronson has been an active and in-demand music director and conductor for over twenty years. His Broadway credits include: music director, GREASE, THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN', IN MY LIFE, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, ROCKY HORROR SHOW, RENT and STARMITES; associate conductor, CRY BABY, GOOD VIBRATIONS, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, PARADE, MAIL and PRINCE OF CENTRAL PARK; and assistant conductor of THE WHO'S TOMMY Off-Broadway, he was Music Director of KING LEAR at the Public Theatre (Sondheim/Starobin score), ONCE AROUND THE SUN (Zipper Theatre), 3 GUYS NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN (Minetta Lane), and numerous workshops and productions at Playwrights Horizons, including Jonathan Larson's SUPERBIA. He was associate conductor of the RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR, and is currently music director of ROCK OF AGES on Broadway.

The Boomerang Theatre Company is an award-winning Off-Off-Broadway theatre company based in New York City. Boomerang annually produces a season composed of three programs: free outdoor Shakespeare productions in parks throughout NYC; an indoor repertory series of new, classic and neglected plays; and FIRST FLIGHT, a new play development festival of workshops and readings.

In the past twelve years, the Boomerang Theatre Company has produced 47 full productions, including seven world premieres, seven New York City premieres and reinvented producing in repertory for small theatres. In 2008, the company was the recipient of the Caffe Cino Fellowship from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for consistent production of outstanding work. Boomerang has been awarded two New York Innovative Theatre Awards for BURNING THE OLD MAN by Kelly McAllister (out of six nominations), a 2002 OOBR Award for THE MISANTHROPE by Moliere, and was selected as a September 2005 recipient of The STAR Initiative from WNYC radio. The company also presented the United States premiere of IRVINE ("Trainspotting") Welsh's YOU'LL HAVE HAD YOUR HOLE in the NYC International Fringe Festival. Two plays produced by Boomerang have been published in annual Plays and Playwrights anthologies.

For more information on the company or this production, visit http://boomerangtheatre.org/