After 25 Years, original TADA! ensemble members return to the TADA! Stage to Star in The Little House Of Cookies. It opens July 10, 2009.
The show's book is by Janine Nina Trevens. It has music & lyrics by Joel Gelpe. Choreography is by Joanna Greer; Musical direction by Jim Colleran. It is directed by Janine Nina Trevens.
2009 Drama Desk Award Winning, TADA! Youth Ensemble (Janine Nina Trevens, Founder/ Executive and Artistic Director; Amy Fiore, Managing Director; Joanna Greer Associate Artistic Director) celebrates 25 years of original family entertainment and is happy and proud to welcome back two of its original cast members. Andrew Martin and Serena Rosario-Stanley, starred in the
very first TADA! musical, Little House of Cookies and will join the current cast on stage playing the adult roles. The Little House Of Cookies has a book by Janine Nina Trevens, music and lyrics by Joel Gelpe, directed by Janine Nina Trevens, choreography by Joanna Greer and musical direction by Jim Colleran. The Little House Of Cookies will open on Friday, July 10 and will run through August 1st at TADA! Theater (15 West 28th St.).
An adaptation of Eleanor Clymer's The Tiny Little House, The Little House Of Cookies follows some
neighborhood kids as they come up with the idea to use an abandoned house as a 'boys-only' clubhouse. But this house has a different plan; when they try to enter, the door becomes too small for them. However, Jane and Alice have no problem turning the house into a homemade cookie shop. That is, until the mean old landlord arrives to collect rent.
Talented cast includes: Brooklyn: Jonathan Bach (Brooklyn, Age 12),
Christina Franklin (Brooklyn, Age 15), Miriam "Claire" Jones (Brooklyn, Age 12), Jacob Ross (Brooklyn, Age 12), Amiri Taylor (Brooklyn , Age 14), Austin Zambito-Valente (Brooklyn, Age 11).BRONX: Isabel Vera (Bronx, Age
13). Manhattan: Ceanna Bryant (Manhattan, Age 11), Kristin Callahan (Manhattan, Age 11), Danikha Catada (Manhattan, Age 13), Maeve Cavadini (Manhattan, Age 17), Taylor Jones (Manhattan, Age, 11), Georgia O'Leary (Manhattan, Age 10), Logan Riley Bruner (Manhattan, Age 12), Ky
Lee Savage (Manhattan, Age 10), Jennifer Wais (Manhattan, Age 15). Queens: Victoria Cotton (Astoria, Age 12), Priscilla Estevez (Jamaica Estates, Age 9), Lindsey Estevez (Jamaica
Estates, Age 14), Taylor Hogan (Floral Park, Age 16), Niles Jordan (Cambria Heights, Age 14). New Jersey: Natalia Amaya (Hillside, Age 13), Jordan Alston-Harmon (Hackensack, Age 14), Brielle Raddi (Cedar Grove, Age 12).