Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
A
play by Michele Willens
At The 78th Street Theatre Lab, 236 West
78th Street
Michele Willens presents her one-act play DEAR MAUDIE, which
tells the story of two tween girls whose friendship changes as they get older
and are influenced by their peers. Performances will be at the 78th
Street Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street (between Broadway and
Amsterdam Avenue), and will begin on Sunday, October 30th for an
open run.
DEAR
MAUDIE tells the story of two girls who meet in the fourth
grade and make a pledge to correspond with one another until they are thirteen
“or one of us gets a pimple.” In the
tradition of Judy Blume’s “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” DEAR MAUDIE
takes the girls through the pain of growing up and the heartbreak of breaking
up with a friend. Best selling
children’s book author Judith Viorst said, “I love this
play. It is a funny, touching and true
exploration of two wonderfully realized young girls and their friends as
they navigate their baffled way to the brink of adolescence. Michele Willens thoroughly understands their
kindnesses and cruelties, their confusions and contradictions, their yearnings
and anxieties and she writes about it all with great insight and tenderness.”
The
playwright, Michele Willens, is a freelance journalist who has written several
articles for the New York Times and is credited for coining the term
‘tweens.’ She’s also the Chairman of
the Board of City Lights Youth Theatre and is currently completing a play about
the 1950 Senate race between Helen Gahagan Douglas and Richard Nixon. Her husband, David Corvo, is the Executive
Producer of Dateline on NBC and they have two kids, ages 17 and 12.
The Director
of DEAR MAUDIE, Jamibeth Margolis, recently directed Plane Crazy
(2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival at the Beckett Theatre), Owl Creek:
A New Musical and Far From The Madding Crowd for last year’s New
York Musical Theatre Festival at the 47th Street Theatre. Jamibeth directed DEAR MAUDIE last
fall at the Triad Theater.
The cast of DEAR
MAUDIE will include Danielle Carlacci, Allison Brustofski, Kelsey Merritt,
Kristen Piacentile, Leanne Cabrera, Hunter Gallagher, Tommy McKiernan, Michael
Jacobs and Staci Rudnitsky.
Tickets will be $10 for adults and $5 for children
under 13 and may be purchased by calling theatermania at (866) 811-4111 or by
visiting www.theatermania.com. Photos
will be available for download at www.brettsinger.com/clients/dearmaudie.html.
dear maudie
Written by Michele
Willens, Directed by Jamibeth
Margolis
At
the 78th Street Theatre Lab, 236 West 78th Street, between Broadway and
Amsterdam Avenue
SCHEDULE:
Begins Sunday, October 30th for an open run. Sundays at 1:00PM
TICKETS:
Adults, $10; Children under 13, $5; Call (866) 811-4111 or visit
www.theatermania.com
311 West 43rd Street Suite #1107 phone: (212)
307-7181
New York, NY 10036 Fax: (212) 307-7178
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