Michael Parva, Artistic Director of The Directors Company, announced today that the company will be presenting a special
invitation-only reading of a new musical, Stoker, this Thursday, April 17th, at 311 W 43rd Street in Manhattan at 3:00 p.m.
Over the past two years, The Directors Company has quietly developed Stoker, book by Irish playwright Raymond Hardie and music/lyrics by internationally known Grammy award-winning composer Joe Jackson. This unique creative team, under the direction of award-winning designer/director
Judith Dolan, has created a provocative musical work. Joining the team is music director Lawrence Yurman (recently,
Grey Gardens).
Set within a theatrical framework, Stoker is centered over two days of rehearsal of The Bells, a Victorian melodrama at the Lyceum Theatre in 1893. Between curtain calls and costume fittings, a battle of ego, politics, and artistic demons wages, and a legendary literary figure struggles to find his voice. It is the story of Bram Stoker, the mind that created the great gothic tale Dracula.
Actors appearing in the musical include
Aysan Celik,
Jim Dale,
Peter Gerety,
Matthew Gumley,
Tom Hewitt,
Herndon Lackey,
Alice Ripley,
Tom Alan Robbins,
Paul Schoeffler, Theo Stockman, and Peter Van Wagner.
The Directors Company has brought many new projects to life, including Bat Boy: The Musical, 3hree, Camila, Splendora, Eliot Ness...In Cleveland, The Ballad of Little Jo, The Passion of Frida Kahlo - all moving on to major productions in NYC and around the country.
For more information about The Directors Company, call 212-246-5877.
