[NEohioPAL] My latest film project EVOL

[Qimmah Hasan]

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--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Neil Thackaberry <thackaberryn at actorssummit.org> wrote:

> From: Neil Thackaberry <thackaberryn at actorssummit.org>
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] Composer & Playwright travel to see MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS at Actors' Summit
> To: neohiopal at listserve.com
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 11:00 AM
> For Immediate Release
> 
> For additional information contact: 
> Neil Thackaberry (330) 342-0800
> Hudson, Ohio 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Playwright & Composer of hit
> 
> Main-Travelled Roads
> 
> Travel to see production at Actors' Summit
> 
>  
> 
> Main-Travelled Roads which is having its regional premiere
> at Actors'
> Summit, Hudson's professional Equity theater will host
> the award winning
> composer and playwright at the October 4th performance of
> the critically
> acclaimed musical. The play is currently in performance and
> will
> continue through October 5. Performances are given on
> Thursdays,
> Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at
> 2:00 p.m. 
> 
>  
> 
> The Play
> 
>             Main-Travelled Roads, the winner of the 2007
> Richard Rogers
> Award, is a bright, funny, romantic musical based on the
> short stories
> of Hamlin Garland. Garland was born 7 years before and a
> few miles south
> of Laura Ingalls Wilder's birth date & place. Set
> in turn-of-the-century
> Wisconsin, the warm and honest portraits of life in the
> rural Midwest
> are lively, touching, heartfelt, and timeless.  
> 
> Hamlin Garland was born in West Salem, Wisconsin, in 1860.
> After moving
> with his family to a succession of homesteads in Iowa and
> South Dakota,
> he went to Boston in 1884, determined to embark on a
> literary career.
> His first success was Main-Travelled Roads, a collection of
> short
> stories published in 1891. He moved to Chicago in 1893,
> lectured widely
> on literary topics, and agitated for a realistic American
> literature
> through a number of essays, some of which were revised into
> his 1894
> manifesto, Crumbling Idols.
> 
>             Main-Travelled Roads was developed in part at
> the Stages
> 2006 Festival of New Musicals in Chicago and at Madison
> Repertory
> Theater's Fall Festival of New Plays.
> 
>  
> 
> "We're thrilled that Paul Libman and David Hudson
> will be able to join
> us," said Sasha Thackaberry, director of the
> production. "It's rare for
> us to be able to have the creative team for a musical in
> attendance at a
> performance of their work."
> 
>  
> 
> About the Authors
> 
> Dave Hudson and Paul Libman  began working together in
> 2002, after Paul
> left a successful advertising jingle career for the much
> more lucrative
> and reliable world of musical theatre. 
> 
>             Less than three months later, they landed their
> first
> professional contract with American Folklore Theatre, where
> their
> initial collaboration, Muskie Love, played for two summers.
> 
> 
>             In 2004 they created Dust and Dreams:
> Celebrating Sandburg
> (originally Bringers). Dust and Dreams won the 2005 Richard
> Rodgers
> Development Award for New Musicals, and was also presented
> at Chicago's
> Stages Festival of New Musicals. 
> 
>             Their next effort, Main-Travelled Roads, was
> selected for
> the 2006 Stages Festival, was featured twice in the Madison
> Rep's
> Festival of New Plays, and was the winner of the 2007
> Richard Rodgers
> Award. Produced at AFT in the fall of 2007, Main-Travelled
> Roads was
> presented at the New York Barrow Street Theatre in March
> 2008. 
> 
>             Paul and Dave's newest musical, A Cabin
> with a View was
> commissioned by AFT and played to full houses throughout
> summer 2007.
> Work is currently underway for their next AFT commission.
> 
>             Both Dave and Paul are alumni members of the
> Musical Writers
> Workshop at Theatre Building Chicago.
> 
>  
> 
> Performance Schedule
> 
> Regular performances continue through October 5, Thursdays,
> Fridays &
> Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. 
> 
> Tickets
> Tickets are $28 on Fridays & Saturdays, $25 on
> Thursdays & Sundays. All
> full time students with ID are $7 at all performances.
> Seniors receive a
> $3 discount at all regular Thursday and Sunday
> performances.  Season
> subscriptions and discounted coupon books are available. 
> Group
> discounts are available for parties of 10 or more. 
> 
> Tickets can be purchased on line at www.actorssummit.org or
> by phone by
> calling (330) 342-0800.  
> 
> 
> Web site
> 
> 
> Actors' Summit Theater can be found on the web at
> ww.actorssummit.org. 
> 
>  
> 
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