little Willy, written by Mark Kassen and directed by John Gould Rubin, will run in a limited engagement from April 6th, 2006 to April 30th, 2006 at The Ohio Theater (66 Wooster St.) in NYC. Previews begin April 6th for an April 10th opening. The play is performed by Kassen as William Patrick Hitler and Roxanna Hope in a variety of roles, including several women who fall under his spell.
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little Willy is a humorous, multi-media production that tells the little-known true story of the devil-may-care playboy William Patrick Hitler – who also happened to be none other than Adolf Hitler's estranged nephew. The show exposes William's life as a skirt-chaser, VW Beetle car salesman and United States Naval soldier and reveals publicly for the first time the secrets that he used to bribe his notorious uncle. Swept up by America, Willy partied, endorsed every product he could find and effectively became a pop-cultural icon ala Paris Hilton, more famous for being famous than anything else," according to press notes. The play was redeveloped in 2005 at NY Stage & Film. Like Minded productions, in association with The Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, will present the show. Cheryl Dennis and Kassen are the producers.
Hope has appeared on Broadway in
After the Fall and
The
Women and Off-Broadway in
The Idiot, Princess Turandot and
The Flu
Season.
Kassen recently partnered with two-time Academy Award winning actor
Kevin Spacey to form Trigger Street Independent, an independently financed production company. He has performed on Broadway in
The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Off-Broadway in
Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight. He was featured in the NBC movies "The Secret" and "Growing Up Brady" and can be seen in the upcoming film
Mr. Gibb, produced in conjunction with NY Stage & Film. Kassen wrote and performed in his multi-media play
Perfect, also starring
Richard Kind and Judy Greer, in LA. Over the past ten years, he has written, directed and produced film and television projects for Sundance, IFC, MTV Networks and FOX Studio.
The Ohio Theater is located at 66 Wooster St. between Spring St. & Broome St. in NYC. The performance schedule varies. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling 212-279-4200 or visiting
www.ticketcentral.com. Tickets go on sale March 6th. Capacity is 99 seats, and running time is 1 hour and 25 minutes with no intermission.
