GOD SAVE QUEEN PAM Begins Previews

A Proclamation! Whereas many in the city of New York may be seeking a little "Markle Sparkle" on this side of the pond, Tawnydog Productions has announced that the world premiere of Erin Murray Quinlan's lighthearted and whimsical new Off Broadway musical comedy GOD SAVE QUEEN PAM will take placeon Thursday, the twenty-first day of June, Two Thousand and Eighteen with a limited engagement run through the twenty ninth day of July in the same year of our Lord. The production will run at The Players Theatre, 115 McDougal Street on the Island of Manhattan in the city of New York. GOD SAVE QUEEN PAMwas inspired by Ms. Quinlan's very American obsession with the British royal family and will have its official opening night on Friday, the twenty-ninth day of June. https://www.godsavequeenpam.com

The British Royal House of Edevane has died out, and the only living heir is an American bartender with a heart of imitation gold metal-like substance. With the help of her devoted royal staff, Pam Duffy must take on the duties of Queen and prove herself to be a suitable monarch before the scheming Lady Fenella de Dieul can unseat her and to do that, she has to stay out of her own way.

GOD SAVE QUEEN PAMwas written two years ago, just before Meghan Markle was introduced to Prince Harry. To understand Quinlan's obsession with the royal family one need only look at her lifelong affinity for all things British culture. When she was a young girl, Princess Diana was at the top of everyone's consciousness, as were the Spice Girls, so if she ever needed to escape her day-to-day life, she would emulate this magical people called the English. As she got older, British imports became more common. The radio played Britpop, the bookstore shelves started stocking Harry Potter, and BBC America introduced her to Graham Linehan, Jennifer Saunders, Victoria Wood, Blackadder, The Young Ones, and other shows that shaped her sense of humor. She aspired completely to be either David Bowie or Emma Thompson but settled for the former when she adapted 'Sense and Sensibility' into a musical for her high school senior project. In college, her thesis was an adaptation of 'A Room With a View.' They were limited in their scope, of course - she had still not actually BEEN to England. When she got engaged to her husband, he took her to England for the first time. While there, they decided to elope to Gretna Green, which she had read about in Jane Austen.

"It's become a place where I feel very much myself, but it's not the England that ten-year-old me escaped to as a kid. I suppose this show is a love letter to both versions of this world - the fairytale version I observed from the outside, and the real place that I've come to know as an American adult," says Quinlan.

Erin Murray Quinlan (Book/Music/Lyrics) is a NYC and London based playwright and composer/lyricist. Her work has been performed in NYC, Boston, LA, and London among others. Her composition work on Rory Sherman's Ms. Songbookwas lauded as '"the cream of a very talented crop". She is a Berklee-educated composer, an alumna of the EAMA-Nadia Boulanger Instituteand has studied playwriting at Oxford University. She is a fellow of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Award-winning director Brian Tuttlewas most recently the artistic director of the 11:11 Theatre Company, where he produced, wrote, and directed new work for the Boston theatre fringe scene. These include the musical 'The Great Heathersby Heist' (writer and director), 'Poe, a Fever Dream' (co-director, co-writer), and 'Her Red Umbrella' (writer) which earned him an IRNE award nomination. He is a graduate of the Undergraduate Playwright's Workshop at the University of Iowa, and the MFA playwriting program in Boston.

Marc Chan is a composer and pianist. He has accompanied singers from the Metropolitan Opera, gigged at the Metropolitan Room, and competed in a musical death match with robots at The Boston Museum of Science. Marc's music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, the Stone, the Tank, and at the Smithsonian. He has recorded for Mode Records, which the San Francisco Chronicle has described as "never less than mesmerizing." Marc is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Advanced Workshop.

The cast of GOD SAVE QUEEN PAM features Erin Murray Quinlan, Carolyn Light, David Ventura, Mari Minette Linder, Evan Quinlan, Michael Kennedy, Adena Walker, Bryna Kearney and Brian Esposito.

The production features musical direction and instrumental performances are by Marc Chan, arrangements by Adam Morris, set design by Bryce Cutler, lighting design by Mary Ellen Stebbins, costumes by Allison Alloway, sound design by Justin Wooand choreography by Mari Minette Linder. The Production Stage Managers are Ellie Handel and Sonya Plenefisch.

Performances of GOD SAVE QUEEN PAMare Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7PM and Sundays at 3PM.

Tickets are $35 - $59 and can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/989668 or by calling The Players Theatre Box Office at 212-475-1449.

The Players Theatre is located at 115 McDougal Street in Manhattan, just one block from the W4th Street subway station and easily accessible by the A, C, E, B, D, F, M trains.

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