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EXTENDED! NOW THROUGH APRIL 13th!
Take a
Musical Romp Through Paris with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas!
Picasso,
Harlow and Fitzgerald, too. - Respondez S'il Vous Plait!
Urban
Stages
(Frances Hill, Artistic Director,
Sonia Kozlova, Managing Director)
March 17, 2008 – Heavy ticket demand has
prompted Urban Stages to extend its hilarious drawing room musical, 27 Rue de Fleurus, for two weeks through Sunday, April 13th. Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein are delighting audiences with
wit and one-up(wo)manship in repartee and song as they confront each other
about love, marriage, jealousy, genius and other delicious topics... Add into the salon Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mabel Dodge,
Sylvia Beach and the smashing Jean Harlow, and you have a highly memorable and
amusing night of theatre.
Unlike most
of the stage works about Gertrude and Alice, 27 RUE DE FLEURUS is told from Alice's point of view as “her
muse.” When Gertrude becomes
embarrassed by Alice's revealing tell-all, she attempts to hijack the play as
only the author of such lines as "sugar is not a vegetable" can. But
Alice has secrets to share with the audience that silence the famously verbose
Gertrude. Quelle surprise!
Critical reviews have praised Frances Hill’s “smart direction,” the "strong
performances" of the cast (New
York Times), as well as "luscious" costumes by Carrie
Robbins (Variety). Curtain Up says, " Add this small
charmer to this season's cornucopia of off-beat new musicals," and Theatermania declared, "Director
Frances Hill's production has a zest that matches the unbridled creativity of
the creators, unfolding on a handsome scenic design from Roman
Tatarowicz, who's created a surreal white salon with skewed walls that's backed
by a series of overlapping frames into which Alex Koch's collage-like video is
projected. It's the perfect canvas for this haphazard look into Toklas and
Stein's world." The critically acclaimed cast includes Cheryl Stern as
Alice, Barbara Rosenblat as Gertrude, and Sarah Chalfy, Susan Haefner and Emily
Zacharias in various celebrity parts.
John Bell is Musical Director.
ARTSHOW. During the run of
the show, photographs and other artworks from the Gertrude and Alice collection of San Francisco collector Hans Gallas
are on display in the theater lobby.
Gallas coordinated events around the world last year to commemorate the
100th anniversary of the meeting of Gertrude and Alice on Alice’s first day in
Paris. Works exhibited include original Carl Van Vechten photographs,
wood-block prints, caricatures, and mixed media pieces created by artists from
around the world. Gertrude and Alice have been the subjects of visual artists
from the beginning of the 20th century and continue to inspire artists in all
media.
Urban Stages produces new plays with themes that reflect our
diverse society. Their most recent
productions were the critically acclaimed Oxford
Roof Climbers Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte, Marion Bridge by
Daniel MacIvor, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Bulrusher by Eisa Davis and Apostasy
by Gino DiIorio.
Since 1983, director Frances Hill has overseen more than 600 staged
readings and workshops, plus over 75 productions of new work for the stage.
Recent directing credits include Jim Lehrer's Chili Queen (Urban Stages
and The Kennedy Center), John C. Picardi's Seven Rabbits on a Pole and The
Sweepers (Urban Stages and Capital Rep), Comfort Women by Chungmi
Kim and last season's Apostasy by Gino DiIorio. As Artistic Director of Urban Stages, she
has moved two plays to commercial off-Broadway runs: Minor Demons and Men
on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown, which won an Outer Critics Circle
Award.
SCHEDULE
for 27 RUE DE FLEURUS: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8PM, with
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3PM. Tickets are $40.00; all Wednesday
performances are specially priced at $25.
Tickets may be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or online
at www.urbanstages.org. There will be
talkbacks every Wednesday and Saturday night, check www.urbanstages.org for schedule of
speakers.
At Urban
Stages, 259 West 30th Street (between 7th and 8th
avenues)
Wednesdays
through Saturdays at 8PM, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3PM.
TICKETS:
$40; College and High School Students, $15; Half-Price Wednesdays: All seats
$25.00
EXTENDED! NOW THROUGH APRIL
13th
Call
212-868-4444, or order online at www.urbanstages.org
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