Ars Nova Kicks Off ANT Fest, Now thru 6/15
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 10, 2013
Ars Nova has released the schedule for its ANT Fest for the week of June 10-15. These events are all part of ANT Fest, their annual All New Talent Festival. Tickets and more information can be found at their website: www.arsnovanyc.com/antfest/
ANT Fest 2013:
ANTTUNES: EDITION SIX
JUNE 10 @ 7PM, $15
Musical Directors Matt Castle & Julie McBride
Featuring Ann Bermont, Liz Lark Brown, Claybourne Elder, Jason Gotay, Molly Hager, Michael Marcotte, Julia Mattinson, Jeremy Morse, Will Roland, Jon Rua, George Salazar & Hana Slevin
You may not know their names yet but you'll see them on Broadway marquees and Billboard charts in the future. Ars Nova presents an evening of rising stars of the contemporary musical theater scene in this night of not-your-grandma's-musical theater.
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
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ANT Fest 2013:
YAHWEH'S FOLLIES
JUNE 11 @ 7PM, $15
Book, Lyrics & Directed by Rob Reese
Composed by Matt Schloss & Eric S. Brenner
Musical Director Matt Schloss
Choreography Lauren Yalango, Christopher Grant
Featuring Bones Rodriguez, Laura Valpey, Rodney Umble, Darilyn Castillo, Katrina P. Day, David Allen McKeel & Shane Breaux
This bawdy vaudeville cabaret tells the story of our favorite god, from his early days as a lonely deity among a profusion of powerful pantheons, through his struggles to gain recognition, power and love, until his emergence as the Alpha and Omega, the one and only, God with a big G!
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
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ANT Fest 2013:STEVE: A DOCU-MUSICAL
JUNE 12 @ 7PM, $15
Created & Performed by Colin Summers
Directed by Nessa Norich
Additional Music by Andrew Eckel & Steve
Meet Colin, a 20-something making music out of online strangers' poetry for cash. Now meet Steve, a highly eccentric, if not absurd, 40-something who'd really like his words set to music. Over the course of two years, a particularly odd online friendship forms. This is that story.
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
ANT Fest 2013:
54/10 CONCERT SERIES
Apollo Run | Not Waving but Drowning
JUNE 12 @ 9PM
$5 Online | $10 Door
Featuring dynamic sounds by bands on the brink every Wed & Fri in June at 9pm!
For tix, info & the full lineup: http://arsnovanyc.com/antfest/5410-concert-series/
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ANT Fest 2013:
POD CORKIN: PROFESSIONAL MOTIVATOR & FEAR SPECIALIST, PRESENTS HIS KEYNOTE MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH "YOU ARE YOUR EVERYTHING AND MORE SO BECAUSE OF IT!," A KEYNOTE MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH.
JUNE 13 @ 7PM, $15
Created & Performed by Adam Lerman
Directed by Kel Haney
Sound Design Jill BC Du Boff
Pod Corkin, Professional Motivator & Fear Specialist, presents his keynote speech, "You Are Everything and More So Because of It!," in which he will teach you how to get motivated and eliminate fear! He's graced the stages of midsize convention centers and airport rest areas, and he's appearing at Ars Nova for one night only! Please come to his speech.
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
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ANT Fest 2013:
SHOWGASM: ANT Fest Edition
JUNE 13 @ 9PM, $5
What is Showgasm, you ask? It's joy realized, a freak flag waving proudly atop the rubble of a demolished J. Crew, a teenage witch. Or more simply put, a raucous variety show with performances ranging from hilarious to titillating to utterly inappropriate. Come. You've never looked better!
WARNING: May lead to spontaneous singing, dancing, and/or an unexpected climax.
Lineup: Justin Sayre, Trixie & Monkey, Eva Andersen & Joan Estep, Greg Johnson, Diana Joy
For tix & info: http://arsnovanyc.com/antfest/lineup/showgasm-2/
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ANT Fest 2013:
HORSE GIRLS
JUNE 14 @ 7PM, $15
Created by Jenny Rachel Weiner
Directed by Sarah Krohn
Featuring Aurelia Grierson, Sarah Hegarty, Sarah Keyes, Olivia Macklin, Hillary Manning, Meghan Mcleod & Ernn Mcleod
BoYz may come and Go, bUt hOrSes aRe 4ever... Twelve-year-old Ashleigh rules the Lady Jean Ladies, South Florida's most exclusive horse club. News that her family's stables are being sold and their horses killed for meat throws the Ladies into crisis in this dark comedy of middle school deception and lies.
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
54/10 CONCERT SERIES Swift Technique | Toys and Tiny Instruments
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ANT Fest 2013:
JUNE 14 @ 9PM
$5 Online | $10 Door
Featuring dynamic sounds by bands on the brink every Wed & Fri in June at 9pm!
For tix, info & the full lineup: http://arsnovanyc.com/antfest/5410-concert-series/
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ANT Fest 2013:
DUNKFEST '88
JUNE 15 @ 7PM, $15
Created by Matt Schatz
Directed by Wendy Goldberg
Featuring Frank Harts, Curtis McClarin & Calvin Leon Smith
Summer of '88: a handful of larger-than-life ballers show up at a local gym to compete for a $10,000 grand prize in an annual slam-dunk contest. But unexpected drama takes center court in this hip-hop musical comedy about dope beats, fly dunks and second chances.
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
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