BROADWAY IN THE WORKS is a staged reading of a new musical in development:
“A Thousand Faces: The Lon Chaney Musical” -- developed with the cooperation and participation of the subject’s own great-grandson Ron Chaney -- tells the incredible true and heart-warming biographical story of the pioneering silent movie star who changed the face of film. Born to deaf parents who didn’t speak, Lon learns at an early age to communicate through facial expressions and pantomime. With their son in tow, Lon performs with his charismatic first wife as a song and dance man in vaudeville houses across the country. When a family scandal destroys his theater career and results in a bitter divorce, Lon must quickly find work and establish a stable home or lose his son. He turns to the budding silent film industry transforming himself with incredible depth and humanity into characters living on the fringe. Lon shoots to international fame as the star of over 150 films, including the original Hunchback of Notre Dame and Phantom of the Opera. He struggles to meet the demands of career, along with those as a father, as talking pictures sweep the nation.
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Season Finale: Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich
Count Basie Center for the Arts (6/7 - 6/7) | |
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Orpheus & Anne Akiko Meyers
Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum (5/16 - 5/16) | |
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Carmen
Surflight Theatre (11/15 - 11/15) | |
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Concert
Count Basie Center for the Arts (4/9 - 4/9) | |
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Michael Feinstein in Because of You: My Tribute to Tony Bennett featuring the Carnegie Hall Ensemble
Enlow Recital Hall (4/25 - 4/25) | |
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PARIS VARSOVIE CABARET MUSICAL
LA LUNA NEGRA (3/20 - 3/21) | |
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Little Mermaid
Surflight Theatre (7/16 - 7/20) | |
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