11th Hour Theatre Company Brings Road Show to Next Step Concert Series

11th Hour Theatre Company continues its 12th season with its third Next Step Concert Series performance. This time the series features a rarely produced Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical, Road Show. Road Show comes to the Next Step Concert Series March 31-April 2. Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics and Weidman wrote the book to this musical about two brothers chasing the American Dream. Kate Galvin, 11th Hour's Associate Producer, directs. The concert will be at Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N American St. Tickets cost $19-34 and are available online at www.11thhourtheatrecompany.org or by phone 267-987-9865.

Road Show is Sondheim's most recent musical and this will mark the first time local audiences can see it. In this musical, Brothers Wilson and Addison Mizner have the ultimate love/hate relationship. When their father dies, they crisscross America to make name for themselves - digging for gold, writing for Broadway, managing prizefighters, designing homes for rich widows, whatever it takes. Addison longs to find success the "right" way, but can he ever be truly free of his con artist brother?

The cast includes: Jeffrey Coon as Addison, Darren Michael Hengst as Wilson, Sharon Alexander as Mama, Charlie Gilbert as Papa/Ensemble, Pax Ressler as Hollis/Ensemble, Tara Tagliaferro as Mrs. Yerkes/Ensemble, and Amanda Jill Robinson, Melissa Joy Hart, Heeyean Kim, Chris McCollum, Matt Mastronardi, and Geoffrey Bruen fill out the Ensemble.

Gina Giachero is the Music Director. Mike Inwood is the Lighting Designer, Toby Pettit is the Sound Designer. The band includes Dan Matarazzo (piano) and Lee Morrison (drums).

The Next Step Concert Series is innovative, inspiring, and intimate. New and seldom seen musicals are stripped down to their very essence...good storytelling and incredible music. The final 2016-2017 Next Step Concert Series is Broadcast by Nathan Christensen and Scott Murphy.

Road Show Schedule
Friday, March 31, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, April. 1, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 2, 3:00 p.m.

About 11th Hour Theatre Company

11th Hour Theatre Company is the only company in Philadelphia dedicated to producing all musicals, all the time. Intimate by design, 11th Hour creates a lasting experience with the audience by producing character-driven musical theatre.

11th Hour produces a broad spectrum of musicals that fill a niche in the diverse Philadelphia theatre landscape: musicals that spark the creativity of artists and the imaginations of audiences. Over the past eleven seasons, they have produced seventeen full-scale musicals, nine of which were Philadelphia premieres. In addition to the World Premiere of their first commission, Field Hockey Hot, the company has contributed to the development of several new musicals beginning with Angst, a ten-minute musical that premiered in the Spark Festival of 2005. 11th Hour produced the American premiere of Austentatious that went on to success at the New York Musical Theatre Festival; and a 29-hour reading of Fantasy Football, the Musical? before its production at New York University. Both Austentatious and Fantasy Football have since been published and are now professionally licensed. In the fall of 2014, 11th Hour partnered with University of the Arts to workshop Persephone Unplugged, a new twist on the classic Greek myth. With support from the Independence Foundation, 11th Hour recently commissioned their second musical from a local writing team, a Civil War-themed project currently titled Something Like a War.

11th Hour has received a total of forty-six Barrymore Award nominations. Their work has been recognized with eight awards, including two consecutive awards for "Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical" (The Bomb-itty of Errors, The World Goes 'Round), and several individual awards for their artists. Founding member Steve Pacek was also the proud recipient of the 2012 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist. In 2013, 11th Hour became the first-ever recipient of the June and Steve Wolfson Award for an Evolving Theater.

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