Photo Flash: EINSTEIN'S DREAMS In Rehearsal

It has also been announced that a limited number of $10 rush tickets will be on sale for all audience members starting at 3 p.m. at the Symphony Space box office on the day of the performance only Monday February 23.

The February 23rd performance of EINSTEIN'S DREAMS will benefit The Harpswell Foundation, an organization created by Lightman in 1999 to provide educational support, housing, and leadership training to young women in the developing world, notably in Cambodia. Harpswell provides a dormitory facility and leadership center for college women in Phnom Penh in an effort to help restore the educational system that was destroyed during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Harpswell has already purchased the land for a second educational facility in Cambodia. (www.harpswellfoundation.org).

Alan Lightman, author of the novel EINSTEIN'S DREAMS will be present at the event to address the audience about The Harpswell Foundation, introduce the musical performance and autograph copies of his book.

EINSTEIN'S DREAMS is a new musical with book by Joanne Sydney Lessner, music by Joshua Rosenblum and lyrics by Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum. The February 23rd concert will be directed by Jen Bender. Musical director David Loud leads a six-piece chamber orchestra.

The musical EINSTEIN'S DREAMS -- based on Alan Lightman's 1993 best-selling novel which imagines what the physicist may have been dreaming about prior to the publication of his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 -- finds a young Albert Einstein trapped in an unhappy marriage and an unhappy job well-beneath his intellect. The musical, like the book, places Einstein in a dreamscape that conjures up an array of theoretical realms of time, all of them visions that probe the essence of time, the adventure of creativity, the glory of possibility -- and the siren call of a beautiful, elusive woman named Josette.

Like Mr. Lightman's best-selling novel, the musical EINSTEIN'S DREAMS finds a young Albert Einstein trapped in an unhappy marriage and a job well-beneath his intellect, and imagines what the physicist may have been dreaming about prior to the publication of his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. The musical places Einstein in a dreamscape that conjures up an array of theoretical realms of time, all of them visions that probe the essence of time, the adventure of creativity, the glory of possibility -- and the siren call of a beautiful, elusive woman named Josette.

This musical adaptation of EINSTEIN'S DREAMS had its world-premiere in 2005 at Lisbon's oldest, most respected theater, Teatro da Trindade.

Tickets to the benefit concert performance of EINSTEIN'S DREAMS range in price from $21-$61-$101 (includes a facility fee) and can be reserved by calling Box Office: 212-864-5400 or going online: http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/2823-einsteins-dreams-the-musical. Rush tickets for EINSTEIN'S DREAMS will be available for $10, on sale only during the day of performance on Feb. 23 starting at 3 p.m.

For more information about the musical, visit www.einsteinsdreamsthemusical.com

EINSTEIN'S DREAMS was originally commissioned by Brian Schwartz and Linda B. Merman on behalf of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.