Prospect Theater Co Hosts One Night Reading Of LONELY RHYMES 4/1

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) celebrates April Fool's Day with a one-night-only concert presentation of founding member Peter Mills' comic song cycle Lonely Rhymes, on Friday, April 1st at 9:30pm. This original, 70-minute musical revue comments on the humorous obstacles of urban life which keep us apart and bring us together. The show was given its world premiere by Prospect in April 2004, with an encore staging at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2006. The show features fifteen original songs by Peter Mills (winner of the Kleban Prize, Fred Ebb, and Larson Awards) and includes the popular duet, "Breaking Up." Presented at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in the West Bank Café (407 West 42nd St., NYC), ticket prices for this special event are $25 for regular general admission, $35 for premium reserved seating locations closest to the stage. In addition, there is a $15 food and beverage minimum for each guest; doors open for dinner at 9pm. Tickets may be purchased in advance by visiting: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/163260 or by calling 1-800-838-3006 (Event 163260).

For more information, please visit www.ProspectTheater.org. Depending on availability, tickets may also be purchased at the door.

The evening will feature performances by Prospect Theater Company veterans, including: Jason Collins (Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, The Blue Flower, Map Quest), Victoria Huston-Elem (The Hidden Sky, Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge, The Rockae), Jaygee Macapugay (Honor, The Rockae), Liz Power (original cast of Lonely Rhymes, The Taxi Cabaret 2002), Doug Shapiro (Iron Curtain, Snapshots, Museum Pieces), Robby Sharpe (The Pursuit of Persephone, Iron Curtain, The Book of the Dun Cow), Lucy Sorensen (NYMF cast of Lonely Rhymes, The Tutor), and Max Spitulnik (With Glee, The Taxi Cabaret 2010).

Lonely Rhymes will be directed by Cara Reichel and the event is produced by Julie Miller. Stage management is by Kat West. Band will include Peter Mills, Dennis Michael Keefe and John Herin. Please note that late comers will be seated at the discretion of Management.

About the Artists

Recently, Peter Mills wrote music and lyrics for Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge, a critically-acclaimed bluegrass adaptation of J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World set in 1930s Appalachia. He was honored to receive the prestigious 2010 Kleban Prize for lyrics, as well as the 2007 Fred Ebb Award for emerging songwriters, 2006 Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Music and Best Orchestrations, the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and a 2002 grant from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. As Prospect Theater Company's resident writer, Mr. Mills has written music and or lyrics for a total of 11 new musicals, including: Honor, a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It, The Rockae (a hard rock musical based on Euripides' The Bacchae), Iron Curtain (lyrics with Stephen Weiner, music, and Susan DiLallo, book), The Pursuit of Persephone, Lonely Rhymes (a comic song cycle), The Alchemists, Illyria (a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night, which had its regional premiere at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Fall 2004, with a cast album released in April 2005) and The Taxi Cabaret (published by Samuel French in Fall 2004). With Cara Reichel, he wrote The Flood, which was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop (2001). Marco Polo, written with composer Deborah Abramson, was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop in 2000, and Peter and Deborah were chosen as 2000-01 Dramatists Guild Fellows. Peter holds an M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts and a degree in English/Dramatic Literature from Princeton University. He is a founding member of Prospect Theater Company.

Cara Reichel is the Producing Artistic Director and a founding member of Prospect Theater Company. For Prospect, she has recently directed: Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge, Illyria, Honor, The Rockae, The Flood (co-author), Iron Curtain (IT Award Nomination, Best Director), and The Pursuit of Persephone (co-bookwriter), among others. She recently directed Iron Curtain at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals (2009), as well as at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center (2008). Cara received the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, 2004 and 2007 New Directors / New Works grants from the Drama League, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Originally from Rome, Georgia, Cara received her BA from Princeton University and attended the M.F.A. program in directing at Brooklyn College, where she was named 2006 "Alumna of the Year."

About Prospect Theater Company
Prospect Theater Company is a non-profit organization, founded in 1998 by five graduates of Princeton University, in order to allow a diverse group of emerging theater professionals to work together in pursuit of artistic excellence and innovation. Known both for its development of new musicals and its engaging interpretations of classic plays, Prospect strives to build bridges between artists and audiences, and to connect theater's present to its past-in order to build its future.

For more information on Prospect Theater Company, please visit www.ProspectTheater.org.

Prospect Theater Company, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 307 3rd floor, New York, NY 10018
phone: 212-594-4476, fax: 212-594-4478

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