Vampingo Productions to Present Backer Presentations of New Musical BUZZ, SON OF A BEE

Vampingo Productions has announced that it will present two special backers presentations of Buzz...Son Of A Bee, a new musical comedy spotlighting the actor's life - featuring a book by Andrew Johns, Lyrics by Ariana Johns and music by Darryl Curry. Both presentations will take place at the Actor's Temple Theatre (339 West 47th Street) on Monday, November 2nd at 2PM & 7PM. Tickets are free. http://www.buzzsonofabee.com

The quest for a plot. The glamour of desperation. A tale of Love and Honey. BUZZ, Son of a Bee...an actor's life for me is a vibrant new musical comedy about actors' dreams (and realities, such as they are). Actors are by their nature innocents; they're willing to believe in anything as long as it gets them on the stage. BUZZ follows a cast of eight as they navigate the 'Mobius Trip' of life, from Shakespeare to vulture bees...in Buzz, there are no stars, just human beings who've found their home in the Theatre.

Buzz was honored by receiving the 2014 Golden Fleece Ltd. 22nd Annual Award for Music Theatre in progress, it was selected for a special presentation at The Woodstock Fringe Playwrights Unit, and it was part of the Friday Night Footlights series at The Dramatists Guild. Most recently (March 9th, 2015) a staged reading of the entire musical was performed for a full house at the Theatre at St. Clements, sponsored by the Peccadillo Theatre Company.

The cast of BUZZ...SON OF A BEE features Beau Allen, Michael Citriniti, Chris D'Amico, Ariana Johns, Evangeline Johns, Gigi Neil, Wallace Norman and Perryn Pomatto.

Andrew Johns has had well over a hundred productions of his plays, from Off Broadway (The Return of Herbert Bracewell with Milo O'Shea & Frances Sternhagen, Fridays with Henderson Forsyth, Pigeons on the Walk with Tom Carlin) to dozens of Regional theatres across the country and Internationally. The Return of Herbert Bracewell and Fridays are both published by Dramatists Play Service, and he's a past recipient of an NEA Playwrighting Grant.

Darryl Curry works as a composer, lyricist, playwright and musical director. He wrote music for the 20th Anniversary production in New York of THE ELEPHANT MAN, and has had two musical works commissioned - "The 46th Street Mass," by St. Clement's Episcopal Church in NY, and the sung ballet "My Shadow," by the Staten Island Ballet. Other work includes the musicals QUITTERS, GEORGE Q and DORIAN GRAY. MESMERIZED (lyrics by MK Wolfe, book by Al D'Andrea) was staged at The Playwrights' Group in Los Angeles, and in Portland, April 2014, his musical THE ELEPHANT PIECE was produced by the Snowlion Repertory Company, garnering great reviews.

Ariana Johns has had her plays produced in NYC, L.A., and Regionally. Her play Moonbite...a montage of radiant lunacy was featured in the 2011 Woodstock Fringe Festival (where she was the Playwright in Residence) after a sold-out run at Actor's Art Theatre in L.A., and she performed her solo play, Vampingo...a comedy with bite at the NY International Fringe Festival. She is a contributing member of the Musical Theatre Factory, and her work as an actor has earned her DramaLogue and A.D.A. awards. Her musical comedy/improv group OK, So We Lied! was a NYC staple, and her comedy duo, Too Idiots with John Ten Eyck (MTV) has had three sold-out final reunion tours thus far.

For more information on the show and the two special presentations, please visit http://www.buzzsonofabee.com