LONG STORY SHORT Opens at San Diego REPertory Theatre Tonight, 10/9

SAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE kicks off the 2009-2010 Season with the whirlwind musical LONG STORY SHORT - written by Brendan Milburn and Valarie Vigoda of the band Groovelily - tonight, October 9th after a week of previews that began on October 3rd. The musical takes audiences on a journey through one couple's 50 year relationship.

Hope (Melody Butiu) is an Asian American girl from SoCal who falls in love with a Jewish guy from the East Coast named Charles (Robert Brewer). Based on David Schulner's play An Infinite Ache, San Diego REPertory Theatre's production of LONG STORY SHORT will be directed by Kent Nicholson with a set designed by Victoria Petrovich.

Featuring a live band under the musical direction of Mark Danisovszky, this musical love story begins with a blind date and goes all the way to old age in one exotic song-filled evening. The production will continue through November 1, 2009 at The Lyceum Theatre. 

The regular performance schedule is Wednesday 7pm, Thursday 8pm, Friday 8pm, Saturday 2pm (on October 17 only), Saturday 8pm, Sunday 7pm (no evening performance on October 11 or November 1). Tickets are $34-53 (Student Discount $18) and are available at the Lyceum Box Office (619) 570-1100 or at www.sdrep.org. The REP's box office is open Tuesday through Sunday from 12pm - 6pm on non-performance days and 12pm - curtain on performance days. For more information,visit www.sdrep.org.

Robert Brewer (Charles) is a resident of San Francisco, whose regional credits include Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at Marin Theatre Company, Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Hank) at Center Repertory, and Merrily We Roll Along (Charley - Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination) and Into the Woods (Jack) with TheatreWorks. Other recent credits include The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Duke) at San Jose Stage, Bat Boy: the Musical (Bat Boy) at Foothill Music Theater, Sex (Jimmy) at the Aurora Theatre Company, as well as multiple new musical workshops with TheatreWorks and Playwrights' Foundation in San Francisco.

Melody Butiu (Hope) was last seen at San Diego REP many moons ago during Celebration Of the Lizard. Her theatre credits includes: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (South Coast Rep, Geffen Playhouse, and Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (SCR and Actors Theatre of Phoenix), Hippolytos (Getty Villa), Long Season (Perseverance Theatre), 36 Views (GeVa Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Laguna Playhouse), A Perfect Wedding (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Hair (Reprise!), The Theory Of Everything (Singapore Rep/East West Players), Golden Child (EWP), Dogeaters and Boy (La Jolla Playhouse). TV credits includes: "Desperate Housewives," "Samantha Who," "Cold Case," "Without A Trace," "Rules of Engagement," "Scrubs" and "Strong Medicine." She received her MFA from UC San Diego.

Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda (Writers) are two-thirds of the band Groovelily. Together, they have written music and/or lyrics for Striking 12 (Off-Broadway, regional, and Theatreworks, dir. Ted Sperling), Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Center Theatre Group and Deaf West), Toy Story: The Musical (Disney), Long Story Short (Pittsburgh City Theatre, Theatreworks), Tina Landau's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Paper Mill Playhouse/McCarter Theatre), and Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Theatreworks). In 2006 and 2008, they both received the Jonathan Larson Award. Brendan and Valerie are married and have a four year old son named Mose.

Kent Nicholson (Director) is the Director of Musical Theater for Playwrights Horizons in NYC. His off-Broadway directing credits include Wet by Liz Duffy Adams for The Summer Play Festival and Five Flights by Adam Bock for Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. His San Francisco production of Five Flights was named one of the top ten cultural events of 2002 by the San Francisco Chronicle. He has directed world premiere productions by writers as diverse as Sheila Callaghan, Elaine Romero, and Trevor Allen. Recent credits include the West Coast Premiere of Small Tragedy by Craig Lucas and the first post-Broadway production of Grey Gardens.

San Diego Repertory Theatre produces intimate, exotic, provocative theatre. They promote a more inclusive community through vivid works that nourish progressive political and social values and celebrate the multiple voices of our region. San Diego Repertory Theatre feeds the curious soul. To learn more about the San Diego Repertory Theatre, visit www.sdrep.org.

 

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