Pangea To Present Hally McGehean In UPPING MY NUMBERS

Pangea presents Hally McGehean (Broadway: Annie, Peter Pan) in Upping My Numbers, with book and lyrics by McGehean and music by Joe McGinty (Psychedelic Furs, Loser's Lounge).

Upping My Numbers is a musical memoir of Hally McGehean's sex life. McGehean played an orphan in the original Broadway production of Annie and credits 1980 New York City as forever informing her libido. McGehean opens her show naked in someone else's bed with an ode to the prostitutes of Times Square in, "Shiny, Decadent, and Seedy," before singing a song about each of her life's sexual partners in intimate and often funny detail.

Upping My Numbers' score ranges in styles from Lou Reed to Edith Piaf. The songs are performed in a reverse burlesque. McGehean dresses throughout the show, picking each piece of clothing off her lover's floor and putting them on with a flair usually reserved for taking them off.

"I wanted to play a forty year old woman in command of her sexuality and her age." McGehean, who is forty-six, said, "There aren't many roles in musical theater for us. I decided to write one to up our numbers."

"Pangea, a small club in the back of an Italian restaurant at 178 Second Avenue is establishing itself as a bohemian oasis not unlike the fabled Max's Kansas City from days gone by," says The New York Times.

Upping My Numbers begins its residency at Pangea with performances on April 17 and May 16.