Writing team Barker and Kaz Present Exclusive Look At Their New Musical LIVE! NUDE !GIRL! at NYMF

Live! Nude! Girl! is an official selection of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's developmental reading series and will receive two AEA readings on October 15th at the festival's 45th Street Theatre venue.

With book and lyrics by Donna Kaz (an alumna of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop) and music by Wayne Barker (who wrote material and accompanied Dame Edna on Broadway), the musical tells of an Eisenhower-era housewife named Kit who flees to Las Vegas. The show had a presentation in the York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series in June 2006 and a reading in January of 2008 produced by Small Pond Entertainment.

Michael O'Donnell directs the latest draft. Musical direction is by Marco Paguia. Casting is by Tara Rubin casting and includes Laura Lee Anderson, Peter Benson, Mary Birdsong, Bradley Dean, Kevin R. Free, Kyle Harris, Daniel Marcus, Erin Markey, Marissa O'Donnell, Joe Paperella, Ariel Reid, Susan Mosher, Hannah Wolfe and Brandi Wooten. Kathryn L McKee is the stage manager.

According to the creators, "What if a 1950s Midwestern housewife got so sick of making meatloaf every Tuesday night that she snapped - and ran away to Las Vegas? What if her mother could drink like Dean and her daughter entertain like Sammy? And what if this housewife went from the silent and submissive bottom to the tough, impulsive and calculated top of the heap? Live! Nude! Girl! is an original musical that tells the story of a once in a lifetime chance for one woman to break out of her rut into something original and cool."

The public performance is at 1PM and 4:30PM at 354 West 45th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. .

Composer Barker previously worked with Dame Edna Everage as her onstage pianist and also co-wrote songs with Barry Humphries for Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance!

Kaz's short musical No Trouble at All (with composer Gerald Stockstill) was seen in the first New York Musical Theatre Festival. She wrote and directed Joan, a hip update of the Joan of Arc story, at the Northeastern Theatre (TNT) in Scranton, PA, where the show won a Jason Miller Award.

The production later played the Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland.

Seats are limited for this event and are available at the theatre 15 minutes prior to curtain on a first come, first served basis.