Amas Musical Theatre's 'Street Dreams' To Open 5/9

 Amas Musical Theatre's Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder) will present the Tony Award-Winning musical Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical, by Eve Merriam, with a score by Helen Miller. Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical will open on Friday, May 9 and run through the 18th at the American Theatre of Actors (314 West 54th St.)
 
Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical follows life on a block in an un-named American city. It was the brain child of Tom O'Horgan, known for his shows Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Lenny. "We're thrilled to be reviving this wonderful show after so many years", says Amas Producing Artistic Director Donna Trinkoff. "It remains hauntingly relevant and poignant as a portrayal of the city's urban landscape". In 1972 Linda Hopkins received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her work in the show Inner City. The title was changed to Street Dreams for its revival at La Mama in 1982.
 
The Creative Team: Direction by Christopher Scott (Golf: The Musical!, Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden, The Broadway Kids) Musical Direction by Marshall Keating (Smoking Bloomberg, CAP 21 Monday Night reading Series) Choreographer Monica Celeste Johnson (The Broadway Kids), Costumes by Cheryl McCarron (Tails, Dog Music) Benjamin Hagen (Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden, Tails) and Sets by Andrew Farrugia.
 
Amas Musical Theatre's The Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy began in the early nineteen seventies as the Eubie Blake Youth Theatre and is now a pre-professional performing arts training program, open to students age 14-20, throughout the New York City area. Classes in singing, dancing and acting, taught by working theatre professionals, culminate in a fully-staged Off-Off-Broadway production of a major musical. Recent seasons have included critically-acclaimed productions of Footloose, The Me Nobody Knows and On The Town. Many Academy alumni go on to performing careers on Broadway and in theatres across America, and in film and television.
 
Listing Info:  Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical
Performs: May 9-11 and May 16-18
Fridays at 7:30 Saturdays at 3:00 and 7:30 and Sundays at 3:00
The ATA Theatre is located at 314 West 54th Street
Tickets Adults: $20  Students and Seniors: $15  Groups 10+ $15
www.Theatermania.com or 212.352.3101
 for more information www.amasmusical.org
 
Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director) -- New York City's award-winning pioneer in diversity and multi-ethnic casting in the performing arts since 1968. Amas ("you love" in Latin) is devoted to the creation, development and professional production of new American musicals through the celebration of diversity and minority perspectives, the emergence of new artistic talent, and the training and encouragement of inner-city young people. In recent years, Amas has emerged as a leading not-for-profit laboratory for new musicals, including WANDA'S WORLD; SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL; Lone Star Love; FROM MY HOMETOWN; ZANNA, DON'T!; and STORMY WEATHER: IMAGINING LENA HORNE. Amas education programs include the Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy, a pre-professional training program for teenagers, the Immigration Experience for middle and high schools, and Lens on Live Theatre. Visit www.amasmusical.org.