Prospect Theater Company's WITH GLEE Closes 8/29

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) extended performances of its highly acclaimed new musical With Glee for one additional final week.  The show will close on August 29 at The Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street) following a sold-out original run and two extensions. This is the last and final extension of this highly popular new musical. A new musical comedy about five teenage boys in their freshman year at boarding school, With Glee is written by John Gregor and directed by Igor Goldin (Yank!). Added performances are Tuesdays at 7:30 pm, Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00pm and 3:00 pm matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. (Complete performance schedule is below.) Ticket prices are $50 and $65 and can be purchased in advance by calling (212) 239-6200 or by visiting www.Telecharge.com. (Service charges will apply.) A limited number of tickets are available for $25. Visit www.prospecttheater.org for more information. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Theatre Row Box Office from noon until 8pm daily. With Glee runs 90 minutes, no intermission.

With Glee features performances by Zach Bandler, Christopher Davis Carlisle, Jason Edward Cook, Greg Horton, Erin Jerozal, Dan Lawler, and Max Spitulnik. Choreography is by Antoinette DiPietropolo. Scenic design is by Jen Price Fick, costumes by Tricia Barsamian, and lighting by Cory Pattak.

With Glee is a new, old-fashioned musical comedy about five wayward, eccentric, isolated, awkward, sweet, naive, nerdy teenage boys who are sent away to a boarding school in Maine. As they revel in the trials of their freshman year-striving for acceptance, friendship, and normalcy-we are reminded that every life must be lived to its fullest, every song sung with glee. With Glee was previously presented in a workshop by the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University, as well as the New York Musical Theater Festival. "Delightfully daffy... Mr. Goldin (York Theater Company's "Yank!") and Ms. DiPietropolo have crammed the musical numbers with surprise after surprise... Real artistry is going on amid the antics... The perfect summer show!" The New York Times

Performances are scheduled for the following dates and times:
Tuesday August 17 @ 7:30 pm
Wednesday August 18 @ 8:00 pm
Thursday August 19 @ 8:00 pm
Friday August 20 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday August 21 @ 3:00 pm
Saturday August 21 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday August 22 @ 3:00 pm

Tuesday, August 24 @ 7:30 pm
Wednesday, August 25 @ 8:00 pm
Thursday, August 26 @ 8:00 pm
Friday, August 27 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 28 @ 3:00 pm
Saturday, August 28 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday, August 29 @ 3:00 pm

About the Artists

John Gregor (book, music, and lyrics) wrote the score and co-wrote the lyrics for PInkalicious the Musical. PInkalicious has played to sold out audiences Off-Broadway at the premiere theater, New World Stages. It is currently in its fourth year Off-Broadway at The Bleecker Street Theatre, recently began an open-ended run in Toronto. John also received a 2004 Frederick Loewe Award for With Glee, for which he wrote the book, music and lyrics. John's musical adaptation of Gogol's tragicomic short story The Overcoat has been presented in London at the Bridewell Theatre, the Barrington Stage Company and The New York International Fringe Festival. He has also co-written several children's musicals for Vital Theatre Company, including The Changeling and The Bully, now on national tour. Further, his works include The Mask of the Dancing Princess, Calling All Toys and The Nastiest Drink in the World. A graduate of Emerson College in Musical Theatre, John received his Masters in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Igor Goldin (director) Off-Broadway: YANK! (York Theatre). Previous productions of YANK!: Diversionary Theatre, San Diego (Best Musical of 2007-2008 and Outstanding Achievement in Direction of a Musical, StageScene L.A.); The Gallery Players (2008 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical); New York Musical Theatre Festival/NYMF (2005 Talkin' Broadway Outstanding New Summer Musical). Other productions for NYMF: Sing, But Don't Tell; Liberty; Main-Travelled Roads (2008 Richard Rodgers Award staged reading); Unlock'd (2007 Best In Fest Award; Talkin' Broadway Outstanding New Summer Musical); Common Grounds (2006 Award for Excellence In Direction). Other credits: Liberty (Workshop), Like You Like It, The Gallery Players (2009 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical). Tours: Associate Director, Seussical (TheatreworksUSA). Regional: The New Century, A Little Night Music, I Love You Because, Romance Romance, The Complete History of America (abridged), Blithe Spirit, Dracula, Violet, The Spitfire Grill and The Full Monty. Member: Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

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.

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