Keira Naughton, Linda Powell, Jana Robbins, and Susan Louise O'Connor will round out the cast of The Mail Order Bride, a one-night-only performance of Charles L. Mee's new comedy that will benefit Resonance Ensemble's 2006 season. The Mail Order Bride
will be presented on Monday, March 27 with a 6:00pm reception and a
7:30pm performance at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street) in Manhattan.
Naughton (The Rivals, Indoor/Outdoor), Powell (On Golden Pond), Robbins (The Tale of the Allergist's Wife) and O'Connor (Indoor/Outdoor) will join previously-announced stars F. Murray Abraham (Oscar-winner for Amadeus, on Broadway in Triumph of Love, Angels in America and more) and Deborah S. Craig (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), as well as Kelly Aucoin (Julius Caesar), John Cariani (Fiddler on the Roof), Matthew Cowles (Sweet Bird of Youth), Jennifer Mudge (Reckless). The Mail Order Bride involves an older man (Abraham) who orders up a young Asian bride (Craig) much to the outrage of his family and friends. The reading will be directed by Resonance Ensemble Artistic Director Eric Parness. Multi-award winning playwright Charles L. Mee's works include: Wintertime (La Jolla, Long Wharf, the Guthrie, Second Stage, etc); bobrauschenbergamerica (BAM - Next Wave Festival, Bonn Festival); Snow in June (American Repertory Theatre); Big Love (La Jolla, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman Theatre, etc - 2002 OBIE Award-winner); True Love (the Zipper, the Holland Festival); First Love (New York Theatre Workshop, San Francisco's Magic Theatre); and Summertime (San Francisco's Magic Theatre - 2001 SF Bay Area Critics Circle Award). Mee's complete works are available on the Internet at www.charlesmee.org. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.
Tickets
are $80 ($70 of which is tax deductible) and are available for purchase
online at www.ResonanceEnsemble.org (through Paypal), or by check made
payable to Resonance Ensemble and sent to Resonance Ensemble, P.O. Box
771, Times Square Station, New York, NY 10108. Checks must be received
by March 24.For additional information, please call Resonance Ensemble at 646-263-6673, or visit www.resonanceensemble.org.
