TOSOS Presents the Return of REBEL BOY FIREWORKS This November
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 28, 2016
Rebel Boy Fireworks written Byron Loyd and Susan Morse will be produced by TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) at The Playroom Theater. Byron Loyd also stars in the production as, Dennis Massey, the "Busy Bee" of a small town in Tennessee. Rebel Boy Fireworks won The Jerry Kaufman Citation for Excellence at American Renaissance Theater Company (ARTC).
The limited engagement will run for 8 performances between November 3 - 13. TOSOS's Artistic Director Mark Finley, directs the solos show. Finley recently directed Doric Wilson's play, Street Theatre which won The New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Revival of a Play. Original music and sound design by Morry Campbell.
Dennis Massey, an Elsinora, Tennessee gossip columnist, photo journalist, musical director, community theatre costume designer, event planner and the sole contributor to The Busy Bee, society column flashes us back to 1966 and the events that will forever live in small town infamy. A southern fried comic tour-de-farce co-written and performed by Byron Loyd.
Director Mark Finley explains the importance and timeliness of the piece, "With the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the invisible community of gays and lesbians fiercely took on greater visibility in America. But gays and lesbians have always been part of the nation's social fabric-often hiding in plain sight. Rebel Boy Fireworks flashes back to 1966 and disproves of any notion that those pre-Stonewall days were a simpler time."
Rebel Boy Fireworks is running in repertory with Lavender Songs; A Queer Cabaret In Weimar Berlin written and performed by Jeremy Lawrence, directed by Jason Jacobs.
Performances take place at The Playroom Theater, 151 W 46th Street (between 6th & 7th avenues), New York, NY 10036. Subways: A/C/E/N/R/Q/1/2/3/7 to 42nd street. Tickets are $20.00 in advance, $25.00 at the door and are available at www.rebelboy.bpt.me - Running time: 75
Show Dates:Thursday, November 3rd @ 7:00 pm Friday, November 4th @ 9:00 pm Saturday, November 5th @ 7:00 pm Sunday, November 6th @ 5:00 pm Thursday, November 10th @ 9:00 pm Friday, November 11th @ 7:00 pm Saturday, November 12th @ 9:00 pm Sunday, November 13th @ 3:00 pm
More information is available at www.tososnyc.org
About TOSOS
In 1974, Off-Off Broadway veteran Doric Wilson, cabaret star Billy Blackwell and director Peter dell Valle, started the first professional gay theatre company in NYC. It was called The Other Side of Silence; TOSOS for short. In 2002, directors Mark Finley and Barry Childs and playwright Wilson resurrected the company as TOSOS II, dedicating it to an honest and open exploration of the life experience and cultural sensibility of the LGBT community and to preserving and promoting our literary past in a determined effort to keep our theatrical heritage alive.
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