New Musical CHANCE to Play Fresh Fruit Festival

Take a "Chance" and travel back to the 80s with 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 Denise Puricelli,
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 at https://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

Salvation can come from the oddest places! Gregory, a 55-year-old gay psychologist has spent his adult life denying the loss he experienced as a young man during the AIDS crisis. After suffering a stroke, a strange door opens and, into his life, 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? Either way, Greg must to face his midlife crisis and painful memories to get things right ... if he'll only take the Chance.

This New York musical premiere, produced by Anne Nygren Doherty and imported from the New Musical Theatre of San Francisco, where the production played to acclaim at the Alcove Theater in San Francisco in 2013, explores the deep scars of those left-behind after a tragedy and what it takes to heal and even ... move on.

Richard Isen is author of A Fine & Private Place with Erik Haagensen, which premiered Off Broadway at the York Theatre in New York City in 2006 and is published by Samuel French., Besides his work in theatre he's composed music for film, television (earning him an Emmy nomination for original music), radio and beep-tone music for some of the very first commercial software available on Apple Computer.
Matt Zanfagna will appear as "Chance." The New York actor, director, and theatre technician, currently serves as associate artistic director of Theatre Now New York.

The New Musical Theater of San Francisco is one of only a handful of companies in the United States devoted exclusively to the development of new musical theatre. Artistic director, Anne Nygren Doherty, is best known as the creator of the company's long-running hit, Absolutely San Francisco.