Broadway Clubhouse and Shortened Attention Span Present MOST LIKELY TO: The Senior Superlative Musical 1/16-24/2010

Broadway Clubhouse and Shortened Attention Span are proud to present the return of MOST LIKELY TO: THE SENIOR SUPERLATIVE MUSICAL by Michael Tester. With schools and regional theatres looking for alternatives to "Grease" or "High School Musical" compounded by the daunting challenge in finding suitable comic monologues for auditions, New York playwright, composer and drama mentor Michael Tester, original co-author of the Off-Broadway hit "The Awesome 80s Prom," has created his own solution in MOST LIKELY TO. Abbe Gail Gross directs an all-teen cast of 12 including the return of original Dramatist Guild Workshop cast members Andrew J. Beck, Alexander Greif, Katherine Hoffmann, Lyle Colby Mackston, Melissa Rapelje, Lauren Renner, Sarah Sixt, Joe Wegmann and Jesse Zeidman, joined by Gina Marie Bilardi, Samantha Chastain and Christopher Hlinka. Performances will be held at The Players Theater, 115 MacDougal Street in New York City from January 16th-24th.

MOST LIKELY TO sets the Drama Queens vs. the Jocks, the Glee Club vs. the Goths in a Senior Superlative Showdown, presenting the true-to-life musings of high school students labeled "most likely to ..." by classmates! Inspired by students at the Long Island High School for the Arts, MOST LIKEY TO employs a senior superlative ceremony as its unifying arc in showcasing the seriocomic musings of students labeled everything from Most Popular to Class Clown. Original songs include "Emo Spelled Backwards (is Oh Me)," "I am O.C.D. Over You," and "Ode to the Drama Queen," as sung by disenfranchised members of the Thespian Society and Glee Club.

Composer and writer, Michael Tester states, "With many theatre programs requiring prospective students to prepare age-appropriate pieces, and most public school administrations wary of the very material their pupils have a passion for, young artists are often caught between the First Amendment and The Drama Police. Most Likely To seeks to bridge that gap with a playful musical for the teenager in all of us."

Director Abbe Gail Gross a veteran director, professor and actor currently serving as theatre coordinator of The Long Island High School for the Arts. For Broadway Clubhouse, Abbe has directed Penguins Are Mad Scary and Why Vampire Musicals Suck at The Shortened Attention Span Festival, Players Theatre. NYC. She has worked with Michael Tester on Most Likely To... since its inception, directing all three productions of the show. Among her acting credits are EdWARd 2 at FringeNYC and performances of her original suffrage play I Want My Vote.

Musical Director John P. Farrell is a member of the New York Singing Teachers Association, and many of John's students have gone on to professional careers in theater, on Broadway, and television, most notably Jenna Ushkowitz of Spring Awakening, and Fox TV's Glee. He was a guest lecturer at the NYSTEA conference held at New York University, and was the accompanist for Donna McKechnie's master class in musical theater techniques. He composed music for ABC TV's, The Rolanda Show, and was the musical director for the world's first high school production of Les Miserables presented under the auspices of Cameron Mackintosh and Music Theatre International. John has done work for Theatrical Rights Worldwide where he created the piano/vocal score and accompaniment CD for the first Blue's Clues Live Production of The Most Spectacular Place, and Rugrats-Live Adventure.

Michael Tester is the creator of The Pirate Musical! (Baker's Plays) The Mummy Musical (Dramatic Publishing) Hollywood Exposed! (Actors Playhouse, Miami), Amoebas on Parade!! (King's Head Theatre, London), Hope & Glory: A Musical History (Walt Whitman's Historic Birthplace), and Out of the Blue (FringeNYC). He served as a co-author of the long running Off-Broadway (NYC, Chicago, Boston, Korea) show The Awesome 80s Prom (winner: National Interactive Show of the Year) as well as The National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts star studded Body & Soul Gala at the Baryshnikov Center. Michael was awarded the Rodgers & Hammerstein Scholarship to The American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC, and is a student of the core writing track of the famed Second City Training Center in Hollywood. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Michael is the founder of BroadwayClubhouse.com, He is currently on the writing team of the latest musicals from Davenport Theatrical Enterprises, (Altar Boys, et al).

MOST LIKELY TO opens Saturday, January 16 and runs through Sunday, January 24 for five performances on the following schedule: Saturday, Jan. 16 @ 8pm; Sunday, Jan. 17 @ 3pm; Saturday, Jan. 23 @ 3pm; Saturday, Jan. 23 @ 8pm; Sunday, Jan. 24 @ 3pm.

MOST LIKELY TO is 95 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets are $25 or $15 with a Student I.D. All tickets are reserved and can be purchased by visiting www.theatermania.com where more information can be found on the show, or by calling (212) 352-3101.

Broadway Clubhouse and Shortened Attention Span are co-producers of MOST LIKELY TO. Director: Abbe Gail Gross; Musical Director: John P. Farrell; Production Manager: Michael Sheehy; Stage Manager: Laura Jane Collins; Original Casting: Daryl Eisenberg, CSA; Publicist: Paul Siebold.

Shortened Attention Span was founded in 2007 as a means for new writers to develop their work in a professional setting. Shortened Attention Span produces three One Act Festivals Annually (The SAS Fest in June, The SAS Horror Fest in October and The SAS Musical Fest in the Spring). In Addition Shortened Attention Span has produced or co-produced The Gay Agenda, Most Likely To (August 09), The Spin Cycle (January 09), Dracula (October/November 08), Alcohol (September 08). Currently, Shortened Attention Span serves as the General Manager for Tony and Tina's Wedding, Off Broadway's longest running comedy.

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