Director & Cast Join Pasadena Playhouse's CROWNS Sale Event & Sneak Peak 5/9

Group sales tickets (15 or more) and subscriptions including CROWNS go on sale Saturday, May 9 for the Pasadena Playhouse run of the acclaimed musical. In celebration of the on-sale, Pasadena Playhouse is hosting an afternoon of festivities. Prior to the sneak-peek presentation, there will be FREE live jazz hosted by The Instrumental Women Project, entertainment and food provided by Gelson's Supermarkets in the Courtyard.

The pre-show festivities also include free raffles for specially created hats provided by milliner Yvonne Lewis and copies of the coffee table book "Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry (authors) that served as the inspiration for the musical.

Audience members will also have the opportunity to purchase Pasadena Playhouse gifts, snacks, and desserts from Pasadena's own Gourmet Cobbler Factory.

Following the Courtyard festivities, a sneak-peek presentation will be held on The Playhouse Mainstage featuring ReGina Taylor, Israel Hicks, Wren T. Brown, Sheldon Epps and select musical numbers performed by The Cast of CROWNS.

The event will also include an unveiling of the key art that was developed for CROWNS artwork, commissioned personally by ReGina Taylor, which was created by acclaimed artist and author Synthia SAINT JAMES (creator of the United States Post Office's the first Kwanza stamp).

CROWNS writer ReGina Taylor; director Israel Hicks (Artistic Director of Ebony Repertory Theatre); cast members Clinton Derricks-Carroll, Suzanne Douglas and Angela Wildflower Polk; Ebony Repertory Theatre's Founder/Producer Wren T. Brown; and Pasadena Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps.

Special pre-show guests: The Instrumental Women's Project and milliner Yvonne Lewis.

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2009
12:00 p.m. Courtyard pre-shows begins
12:45 p.m. Pasadena Playhouse doors open
1:00 p.m. Sneak-Peek of CROWNS
2:00 p.m. Event Ends

Pasadena Playhouse
39 South El Molino Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101

Ebony Repertory Theatre (ERT) and Pasadena Playhouse present a co-production of the Los Angeles premiere of CROWNS by ReGina Taylor, adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry and directed by Israel Hicks (Artistic Director, ERT).

CROWNS will run for six weeks at Ebony Repertory Theatre's home - the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center (NHPAC) with previews beginning on May 5, and opening May 8, 2009 through June 14, 2009. The Pasadena Playhouse engagement will run from July 10 through August 23, 2009.

Group tickets (15 or more) are available now for both Ebony Repertory Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse performances. Single tickets to CROWNS are now on sale for the Ebony Repertory Theatre run and will go on sale May 26 for Pasadena Playhouse.

The Instrumental Women Project is established to educate the public about the role of women in jazz, as instrumentalists; to provide opportunities for instrumentalists to showcase their talents, to develop and support music training programs for female youth and to ensure that women are recognized for their longstanding roles as master musicians in the historical and current development of the American jazz art form. The Instrumental Women Project is proud to sponsor The Playhouse's 2009 Season dubbed Women: The Heart and Soul of Theatre by producing life performances at select events through the calendar year.

Yvonne Lewis is a custom milliner and instructor. She is the proprietor of That's Yvonne, a custom millinery studio in Los Angeles specializing in French Room millinery techniques and one-of-a-kind custom hats and hair accessories for individual clients. Ms. Lewis has taught the art of custom millinery at Otis College of Art and Design, Saddleback College, through her private millinery workshops, and by invitation from special interest groups. She is currently the competition coordinator for the annual Hats Entertainment! Hat-making contest at the Los Angeles County Fair and encourages aspiring milliners and fellow hat enthusiasts to participate.

 

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