SYTYCD's Neil Haskell Joins the cast of F#@KING UP EVERYTHING At the 45th Street Theater, Opens 10/6

"So You Think You Can Dance" top three finalist Neil Haskell will replace Heath Calvert (who has been cast in HAIR on Broadway) in the role of Jake in the new rock musical comedy F#@KING UP EVERYTHING, written by David Eric Davis (music, lyrics, book), Sam Forman (book), with musical direction, orchestrations and arrangements by Matt Hinkley and directed by Stephen Brackett. Performances begin on Tuesday, October 6th and run through Friday, October 16th at the 45th Street Theater (354 W. 45th Street). Tickets are $20 and available at www.nymf.org or by calling 212-352-3101. F#@KING UP EVERYTHING is presented by The New York Musical Theatre Festival & Jeremy Handelman/Off The Leash Productions, LLC.

Can Christian Mohammed Schwartzelberg stay true to himself and still get the girl? Or will he lose her to the guy in leather pants? Set against the backdrop of Brooklyn's indie music scene complete with a gallery of hipsters, stoners, artists, cougars, songwriters and puppeteers, F#@KING UP EVERYTHING is a rock musical comedy with heart...and ironic t-shirts.

Neil Haskell ("So You Think You Can Dance," 9 to 5, Altar Boyz) will join Noah Weisberg (South Pacific, Legally Blonde), Jenna Coker-Jones (Little Shop of Horrors, Evil Dead, Fame on 42nd Street), Liz Larsen (Hairspray, Tony Award & Drama Desk Award nominee for Most Happy Fella, Damn Yankees), Leif Huckman (member of indie-rock band The Boggs, TACT's The Incident at Vichy), John Rochette (NC production of Ring of Fire. Film: A Beautiful Debt,) and Kate Rockwell (Legally Blonde, NBC's "Grease: You're The One That I Want." Film: Sex and the City). Creative team includes Daniel Zimmerman (Set Designer), Jessica Pabst (Costume Designer), Joel E. Silver (Lighting Designer) Daryl Eisenberg, CSA (Casting Director), Jeremy Handelman (Producer), Lisa Dozier (General Manager).

F#@KING UP EVERYTHING

David Eric Davis (Music, Lyrics, Book), Sam Forman (Book),

Stephen Brackett (Director), Matt Hinkley (Musical Director, Orchestrations and Arrangements)

Begins Tuesday, October 6 - Friday, October 16.

Performance Schedule:

Tuesday, Oct 6th at 8:00 PM; Wednesday, Oct 7th at 1:00 PM; Sunday, Oct 11th at 4:30 PM and 8:00 PM; Tuesday, Oct 13th at 4:30 PM; Friday, Oct 16th at 8:00PM

Tickets $20 to purchase go to www.nymf.org or call 212-352-3101.

For more information visit www.f-ingupeverything.com

David Eric DAVIS (writer, lyricist, composer) has been writing songs and playing in bands for over 20 years, most recently with Uncle Izzy, with whom he recorded the albums Low End Response and Wish I Was Here. He directed the world premiere of TAROT READING: Love, Sex and Mommy at The 9th Annual New York International Fringe Festival. He wrote and directed Strike!, a movement and percussion piece based on the sounds of bodies moving through air and colliding. Strike! premiered at Movement Research at the Judson Church, NYC and played in the RedFest Collaborative Arts Festival at OneArmRed, DUMBO, NYC. His artwork has appeared in museums and galleries and his photography collection Contemplating My Pipik can be seen at www.davidericdavis.com.

Sam Forman (writer) is writer for the stage, screen and TV, Sam co-created (with Beau Willimon) the Civil War era television pilot Hickory Hill for AMC. Sam recently wrote the lyrics for the new musical Broadway's Next Season (dir. Alex Timbers) and is the lyricist and co-book author for the musical I Sing! which has been produced commercially off-Broadway and in theaters around the world. A CD recording of the York Theater Concert Cast of I Sing! is available in stores worldwide from Jay Records. Sam's other plays and musicals include: The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (The Lion Theatre NYC starring Dan Fogler; Theater J, Washington DC) The Grille Room (Cherry Lane Mentor Project, dir. Thomas Kail), Quarterlife (workshop dir. by Mark Brokaw) Please Stop Talking (Cherry Lane Theater; Williamstown Theatre Festival), Fringical! (Ars Nova, NYC; American Theatre of Actors, NYMF, dir. Thomas Kail) Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown Theatre Festival) The Quiet Game (Hangar Theater, Ithaca NY dir. Daniel Kramer) Krankenhaus Blues (Blue Heron Theater, NYC; The Abingdon Theatre, NYC) Hunter for Hunter Green and Narcissus and Goldstein (Singularity Company). Sam is an alumni of Youngblood at EST, Ars Nova's Playgroup and the proud producer of Creation Nation which the New York Times has called: "A late night cabaret phenomenon." Sam is a member of the WGA, The Dramatist's Guild and is represented by CAA.

Stephen Brackett (director) is a New York based theater director focused primarily on developing new work with emerging playwrights - he has developed new plays at The Public Theater, Soho Rep, The Lark, The Soho Think Tank, Williamstown Theater Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Dixon Place and Ars Nova. In 2008 Stephen was the Assistant Director of Passing Strange at both the Public and Belasco Theaters. He is a co-founder of the theater company The Bushwick Hotel with playwright Rachel Shukert; their collaborations include Johnny Apple@#%*er (Ice Factory), Bloody Mary (nominated for 4 NYIT Awards), Sequins for Satan (Galapagos Art Space) and The Blackstone Hotel (The Culture Project). He is a founding member of 425 D Director's Lab. Upcoming work: Whore at the Summer Play Festival, The Confidence Man a site specific project with The Woodshed Collective and The Private Life of Inga Snyder with the Columbia University Graduate Playwriting Program.

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2009 is presented in association with BroadwayWorld.com, Production Resource Group and TheaterMania.com, and is supported by Back Stage, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, BroadwayBox.com, BroadwayInsider.com, Broadway.TV, Clear Channel Spectacolor, DFD-TV, Frank & Camille's Fine Pianos, King Displays, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, New World Stages, NASDAQ OMX, Next Magazine, PMD Promotions, Queerty.com, Reuters, Sweet Caroline's, Tekserve, TheMenEvent.com, The Tank, and Times Square Squared. Major supporters include The ASCAP Foundation, BMI Foundation, Inc., The Broadway League, The BWF Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation with the support and encouragement of Jamie Mayer, The Charlie & Jane Fink Charitable Fund, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Theater League. NYMF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. NYMF's programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Photo credit Walter McBride

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