joe barros
jen sandler
PRE-PREMIERES OF
NEW MUSICALS
DURING INCUBATION
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wednesday - 6.9.21
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@ 7PM ET
NEW
WORKS
SERIES
music by
LYNNE SHANKEL
words by
SARA COOPER
A FRESH ALL-WOMAN+ LOOK
AT THE UNTOLD STORY OF
THE RADIUM GIRLS
Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls has words by Sara Cooper (The Memory Show) and music by Lynne Shankel (Bare, Allegiance, Breathe). The live presentation will feature excerpts from the show and a conversation with the writers.
Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls is an all-woman+ through-composed musical theatre piece about the capitalist exploitation of workers’ bodies and rights in the face of a national public health crisis. Featuring an original 1920s-2020s mashup score, the show is based on the true story of the women who worked in the factories and were knowingly poisoned by the United States Radium Corporation, and who fought back, changing United States labor laws forever.
Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls has been developed with The Beck Center for the Arts, Baldwin Wallace University and is a recipient of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s (NAMT) 2020 inaugural 15-minute musical competition.
* FEATURING PERFORMANCES by *
KATELYN
BAUGHMAN
COLETTE
CASPARI
PIPER
BRUCE
AUDREY
HARE
AUTUMN
KEY
EDEN
MAU
JESSI
KIRTLEY
CLAIRE MARIE
MILLER
ALEXA
LOPEZ
LAUREN
SENDEN
ANDIE
PETERSON
BELLA
SERANO
LEILA
SHAYE
music + lyrics by
AMY ENGELHARDT
book + lyrics by
MARC ACITO
TOM JONES
IS AN ELECTRIC GUITAR
IN A HARPSICHORD WORLD
The new musical Bastard Jones has a book by Marc Acito (Chasing Rainbows, Allegiance), music by Amy Engelhardt (The Bobs) and lyrics by Acito and Engelhardt. The live presentation will feature excerpts from the show and a conversation with co-writer Amy Engelhardt.
Bastard Jones is a sexy, smart, rollicking new musical comedy that combines a bouncy pop score with period farce. When charming, low-born Tom makes the mistake of wooing Sophia Shepherd, daughter of the pompous Reverend Shepherd, a chain of secrets, schemings and multiple bed-hoppings are set in motion. Based on Henry Fielding’s 1749 Brit lit satire Tom Jones, this musical reimagines the young, irrepressible foundling Tom Jones as an electric guitar in a harpsichord world.
Bastard Jones has been developed by Milkin University and was produced Off-Broadway at The Cell.
* FEATURING PERFORMANCES by *
EVAN
RUGGIERO
(BABY)
AMY
ENGELHARDT
(THE BOBS)
ELENA
WANG
(ALLEGIANCE)
BRIAN
DAVIS
JOSH
RAFF
COMMUNITY
EVOLUTION
COLLABORATION