York Theatre Co. Offers Free Performances of New Musical

The York Theatre Company will offer a free limited run of the acclaimed new musical The Yellow Wood.

The musical, with music by Daniel Larsen and a book by Larsen and Michelle Elliott, will run in seven performances from February 16th through March 2nd.  The cast will include Melinda Bass, Randy Blair, Michael Greenwood, Leigh Ann Larkin, Ted Malawer, Adam Monley, Nina Negri, Brynn O'Malley, Pearl Sun, Jason Williams and Paul Wyatt, with direction by Rebecca Lynn Brown and musical direction by Chris Littlefield.

The Yellow Wood, according to York notes, "follows a teen with Attention Deficit Disorder on his journey to self-acceptance. Seventeen-year-old Adam is frantically trying to memorize Robert Frost's poem 'The Road Not Taken' to recite in his English class, but because he didn't take his Ritalin on this particular morning, he can't get much farther than the first line, 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…' before an amazing yellow wood begins to grow right there in his high school. Desperate to prove he's beaten his disorder, he struggles to memorize the poem—and as it begins to take on a life of its own, Adam is pulled deeper and deeper into the yellow wood, where he must decide which road he will travel."  The musical was a recipient of the 2006 Richard Rodgers Development Award.

The show will be performed: Feb. 16 at 11 AM, Feb. 22 and 23 at 3:30 PM, Feb. 26 at 7:30 PM and Feb. 27, March 1 and 2 at 3:30 PM. The York Theatre at St. Peter's is located in Manhattan at 54th Street between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue. While admission is free, reservations are required; call(212) 935-5824, ext. 21.

Photo of Brynn O'Malley by Ben Strothmann