Dance Of The Seven Headed Mouse With Adams, Ephraim Runs 6/17-7/25 In NYC

Performances will begin June 17th for Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse, a new play by Carole Gaunt, directed by Christopher McElroen, at The Beckett at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues), for a limited engagement through July 25th. Opening Night is set for Tuesday, June 23rd (7 pm). Joseph Adams, Laura Bonarrigo, Molly Ephraim and Lauren Currie Lewis comprise the cast. Hungry Hill, Ltd is presenting.

The fault lines are exposed when a seemingly picture-perfect Fifth Avenue family faces the harshest of realities - the death of their daughter. A father turns to work to drown his sorrow, while his wife drifts into a haze of pills and booze. When their surviving child Avril inexplicably drops out of her prestigious New England boarding school, her roommate Juliana arrives for a visit, determined to lure her back. Acting as a catalyst and witness, Juliana exposes the gaping cracks in the family's Upper East Side façade, forcing its three surviving members to engage with one another and the tragedy they share. Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse is a tale of love, loss, and acceptance from Carole Gaunt, award-winning author of the memoir, Hungry Hill.

Joseph Adams' Broadway credits include Come Back, Little Sheba; The Real Inspector Hound; A View From the Bridge; The Survivor. Off-Broadway: Sixty Miles to Silver Lake (Soho Rep), Serendib (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Don Juan and the Non Don Juan (Vineyard Theatre), Balm in Gilead (Minetta Lane). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisvile, Hartford Stage, Cleveland Play House, Studio Arena, Westport, Pasadena Playhouse, and Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Film/TV: "Iron Jawed Angels" (HBO), "Gossip Girl," "Dirty Sexy Money," "The Sopranos," "Law & Order," Point Last Seen, The Heidi Chronicles, Consenting Adult, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (PBS) and the upcoming "Brooklyn's Finest."
Laura Bonarrigo recently appeared on ABC's "All My Children" as Rebecca Fowler. Fans remember with great enthusiasm Ms. Bonarrigo's role as Cassie on ABC's "One Life to Live". Other Credits include: The Passing with Marion Seldes and Garrison Keillor, Dorothy in The Rise of Dorothy Hale by Myra Bairstow Angie in the independent film Concerto (a Sundance 2009 Selection), Kitty in the Staged Reading of "Otherwise" by Vincent Crapelli with Karen Ziemba and Beth Leavel. A graduate of Rutgers University, Laura became a member of The Shoestring Players, a professional children's theatre group, while still in school. In 2006 Laura started her own company, Feed Your Mouths helping other moms feed their children healthy nourishing meals & snacks. www.laurabonarrigo.com

Molly Ephraim's Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods (as Little Red Riding Hood, Drama League nomination). Molly will soon be seen playing Ursula Merkle in the upcoming revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Off-Broadway: End Days at EST. Film/TV: Disney's "College Road Trip," (Wendy Greenhut); "Law and Order," and HBO pilot "The Wonderful Maladys." Regional: Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Barrington Stage and North Shore Music Theatre; NYMF's College: The Musical; Arden Theater's Into The Woods, Barrymore Nomination; Gerda in The Snow Queen at the Prince Music Theater.

Lauren Currie Lewis graduated from the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and went on to get her BA in English from Oberlin College. Off-Broadway: The Crucible. NY Theatre credits include: The Dancer Who Wore Sneakers (Sasha Soreff Dance Theatre), The Crucible (The Schoolhouse Theater), Girl's Night Out (NYU New Works Festival). TV: "As The World Turns." Film credits include: Salvage (Sundance Film Festival), One Per Cent (Vail Audience Award Winner), Jesse and Jill (IFP Market), Wiper, Sonny-n-Michelle Aren't There, and many more.

Carole Gaunt is the author of Hungry Hill - A Memoir (University of Massachusetts Press June 2007) and received the inaugural Anne Bancroft Memorial Memoir Writing award from the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference. Her book has been listed in the 2008 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries and was featured on CSPAN's "Book TV" with the theme "Women with Gumption." A graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute, she was an associate producer for the South African doo-wop musical, Kat and the Kings, which ran on Broadway for 180 performances. A former board member of the Alcoholism Council of New York, she often writes about the effects of parental addiction on the children in the family. Also, she has appeared as an actor on Lifetime Television.

Christopher McElroen is Co-Founder & Executive Director of The Classical Theater Of Harlem, where has helped produce 36 productions at CTH in the past seven years, yielding 13 AUDELCO Awards, 5 OBIE Awards, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, a Drama Desk Award and CTH being named "1 of 8 theatres in America to Watch" by the Drama League. As a director, he has helmed numerous productions at CTH including The Cherry Orchard with Earle Hyman, The Blacks: A Clown Show (4 OBIE Awards) and the post-Katrina inspired Waiting For Godot with Wendell Pierce, which was recently remounted outdoors in the Lower 9th Ward and Gentilly section of New Orleans. He also directed the international tour of Sekou Sundiata's 51st (Dream) State, which premiered at The Brooklyn Academy Of Music's Next Wave Festival.

Hungry Hill, Ltd. is dedicated to revealing the devastating effects of alcohol/substance abuse on its real victims, the family members left frantically trying to hold things together. It aims to educate through provocative works of literature (Hungry Hill) and theatre.

Dance Of The Seven Headed Mouse will have scenic design by Troy Hourie, costume design by Victoria Gaunt, lighting design by D.M. Wood, sound design by Daniel Erdberg, and prop design by Morgan Eckert.

Performances will be Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm, with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. There will be no 8pm performance on Saturday, July 4th, with additional performances set for Sunday, June 21 at 7pm, Monday, June 22 at 7pm, and Sunday, July 5 at 7pm. The Beckett at Theatre Row is located at 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues); to purchase tickets, which will be $46.25 (including the facility fee), visit TicketCentral.com or call 212/279-4200.

 

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