Skylight Music Theatre Presents SING ME A STORY, Now thru 5/19

Gather round we've got a story to tell! Skylight Music Theatre presents the final Studio Theatre show of the season, Sing Me a Story, running tonight, May 3 through May 19. Featuring Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes Wilson, Milwaukee's favorite cabaret couple performs together in the Studio Theatre for the first time at the Broadway Theatre Center (158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI).

Each performing for the second time this season, Jack (Piano-Esta Noche Cantamos) and Kay (Elsa-The Sound of Music) will be portraying a large cast of characters in this sweetly comic show. Once upon a time, many years ago...well, twenty-five years ago, a girl and a boy met and fell in love with singing...with each other. Kay and Jack, along with the help of Broadway greats such as Lerner & Lowe, Rodgers & Hart and Kander & Ebb, will entertain you with an evening of musical adventures, allegories, anecdotes, and more than a few "happily ever-afters".

Known for their roles and cabarets throughout Milwaukee, Kay and Jack have a long history together at Skylight. They were among the first to perform a cabaret in the Skylight Bar & Bistro when the building first opened in 1993. Now back with Sing Me a Story, Kay and Jack plan to perform both familiar cabaret tunes, as well as a handful of new music including the show-titled song Sing Me a Story written by Jack himself.

"What I think is most unique about Jack and Kay is their subtle way of getting to the core of each song they sing and making it their own. You may have heard the tune before, but never as completely or as personally," says Skylight Artistic Director, Bill Theisen. "Each number becomes a mini one-act play; and the combination of dedication to the material and their impeccable musicianship makes Sing Me a Story a one of a kind theatrical experience."

CREDITS:

Conceived and written by................................................Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes Wilson

PRODUCTION TEAM

Stage Director...........................................................................................Ray Jivoff

Music Director..........................................................................................Jack Forbes Wilson

Set Designer..............................................................................................Lisa Schlenker

Lighting Designer......................................................................................Ryan Bertelson

Sound Designer..........................................................................................Gary Ellis

Stage Manager...........................................................................................Kelly Turner

Assistant Stage Manager............................................................................Lauren Pekel

*Member of Actors' Equity Association,

**Member of the United Scenic Artists

CAST

Kay Stifel*

Jack Forbes Wilson*

Kay Stiefel* and Jack Forbes Wilson* - Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes Wilson have worked in the Milwaukee area for nearly thirty years. They have been seen together and separately at Skylight (where Kay recently played the Baroness in The Sound of Music), Chamber Theatre, First Stage, and Next Act (where Jack was most recently seen as Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life) They first performed together at (the now defunct) Melanec's Wheelhouse shortly after Kay moved here from Steven's Point and Jack moved from Spring Green, Wisconsin. They have enjoyed performing together at the Milwaukee Rep's Stackner Cabaret in Rodger's and..., Unsung Cole, Lerner, Lane Loesser and Lowe and Tomfoolery. Kay's favorite roles include Peggy, Jen, Cassie, Louise & Loretta (The Fourth Wall, John & Jen, Chorus Line, Gypsy and A History of the American Film). Jack's are: Liberace, Will Rogers and Amadeus in shows with those titles. Later this year, Kay will be singing around town with Peter Donalds while Jack is holed up at Off The Wall Theater doing Grey Gardens.

Rav Jivoff (Stage Director) - This season, he appeared in Here's a Howdy do and Assassins at the Milwaukee Rep and has direcTed Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at Skylight. Other directing credits include Annie , Hair and Sweet Charity at the Sunset Playhouse; West Side Story at UW Milwaukee; Little Shop of Horrors and Into the Woods at Marquette University and Ragtime, You Can't Take it With You and On the Razzle at Milwaukee High School of the Arts. Favorite roles at Skylight include Mr. Zero in Adding Machine; Harpo in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Animal Crackers and The Cocoanuts; Roger Debris in The Producers; Amos in Chicago; Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls and Koko in The Mikado. He has also appeared in shows at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act, Milwaukee Rep's Stackner Cabaret and First Stage Children's Theatre. Ray is the Associate Artistic Director of Skylight Music Theatre.

Performances of SING ME A STORY will take place tonight, May 3 - May 19, 2013 in the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway in the Historic Third Ward of Milwaukee. Tickets are generally $35.50 (plus tax) and can be purchased in person at the Broadway Theatre Center Box Office or by calling (414) - 291 - 7800 Monday - Sunday from noon - 6:00 p.m. Tickets nay also be purchased online at www.skylightmusictheatre.org. Group, student, senior and other discounts are available.

Additional information can be found HERE.

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