THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES Returns To Manhattan Theater Source 6/7

Manhattan Theatre Source is proud to announce the return of the critically acclaimed THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES by Andrew Frank & Doug Silver, from the original concept by Fran Kirmser (producer, Hair) Sunday nights at 7pm at Manhattan Theatre Source.

Described as "Schoolhouse Rock meets the Ziegfeld Follies," THE GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES is high-spirited & deliciously raunchy, offering an overview of the Village's history in the form of an old-school musical revue. From Peter Stuyvesant to the Stonewall Girls, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire to NYU, this new musical revue brings Greenwich Village's storied 400-year history to life. The 18 songs include "Resist the Grid" (about the "grid protests" of 1811), "Splatter Me All Over" (a tribute to painter Jackson Pollock) & "Smoke Smoke (Hey, Man)," (a comic treatment of drug dealers in Washington Square Park).

Featured in the cast are Patti Goettlicher, John-Andrew Morrison, Charlie Parker & Rolfe Winkler, along with a special guest star each week. Patti Goettlicher was recently seen spreading musical theatre to children throughout the east coast & mid west in the first national tour of If You Give a Pig a Pancake with TheatreworksUSA. She also appeared in What's My Line, live on stage & as the title character in Edward Allen Baker's Dolores. John-Andrew Morrison is a company member of the Classical Theatre of Harlem & has starred in The Blacks, Caligula & Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Charlie Parker just returned from touring SE Asia as Fairy Godmother, with Lea Salonga in the title role of Cinderella. She appeared in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Seattle Rep, the world premiere of A Girl Called Dusty at Provincetown Repertory Theatre & her one-woman show about Billie Holiday. Rolfe Winkler was most recently in The Fantasticks, Off-Broadway & regionally, in West Side Story, Sweeney Todd & Bat Boy, the Musical.

Andrew Frank (Book, Lyrics & Direction) is a writer & director whose work has been seen at numerous theatres in Off-Broadway & Regionally including New World Stages, The Duke Theatre on 42nd St., The Berkshire Theatre Festival & Glimmerglass Opera. His writing credits include the musical Sidd, based on the Hermann Hesse novel, two highly acclaimed dance/theatre pieces, Isadora . . . No Apologies & In Search of a Goddess & Firefly, a feature film. He has directed Sidd, Three Sisters (also adapted), Woyzeck (also adapted), The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), Turn of the Screw (Britten), I do I do, I Hate Hamlet, Romance/Romance, Theatre of the Film Noir, Five Women Waiting, The Little Years, Body & Soul, King Gordogan, WWOW Radio, Night of the Twentieth (in Tel Aviv, Israel) & Mark Lamos' Paul Bunyan (Britten) at New York City Opera. Andrew is the Founding Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Source & an alumnus of the BMI musical theatre workshop.

Doug Silver (Music & Lyrics) is a composer, arranger, vocal coach & music director. As composer: Sidd (Off-Broadway, 2006) & The Greenwich Village Follies. Shorter works include Swan Song (2007 Estrogenius Festival) & The House of Bartha (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop). Doug's work has been featured at Don't Tell Mama, Symphony Space, New World Stages, Theatre Row, The Triad & Manhattan Theater Source. Music director credits include Max & the Truffle Pig (NYMF 2008) & Sisters of Swing & Romance/Romance at Bristol Valley Theater. Doug is in residence at Theater Row Studios & is a member of the teaching faculty at the Nightingale-Bamford School, teaching piano & songwriting.

DATES: Previews: Sundays, May 3, 10 & 24 @ 7pm

Opens: Sunday, June 7 @ 7pm (open ended)

THEATRE: Manhattan Theatre Source, 177 MacDougal Street (btwn. 8th St. & Waverly Pl.)

TICKETS: $35

RESERVATIONS: (212)501-4751 ~ www.greenwichvillagefollies.com

THIS SHOW IN INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES!!!

 

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