The Sorrows of Young Werther Opens at NYU's Tisch with Music by Michael Cerveris

By: Feb. 18, 2005
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Tony-winner Michael Cerveris has written music for Nick Philipou (The Art Party) and Michael Tisdale's adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther.  The new play with music receives its premiere at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the Burrows Theater.  The experimental drama concerns the themes of youth, love, loss, and suicide, performed by students at the university and with a live rock band performing Cerveris' original compositions. 

The show plays from February 17-20, and February 22-26 at 8pm, and on February 26 at 2pm at the Abe Burrows Theatre on 721 Broadway. For reservations and more information, call 212-998-1860.

Michael Cerveris, who recently won a Tony Award for his portrayl of John Wilkes Booth in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Assassin, was also Tony-nominated for her performance in the title role of The Who's Tommy, a part he also played for two years in Germany. Cerveris originated the role of architect Thomas Andrews in the Tony-winning musical Titanic and also appeared onstage in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Total Eclipse, Abingdon Square, Life Is a Dream and the Kennedy Center and Ravinia Festival mountings of Passion.

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