Featured Production

Performance Lab: PAL JOEY

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Music and Lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

Directed by Robert McQueen

7pm | September 26 & 27, 2015
First Floor Studio, 120 Bank Street
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Using scenes from the musical PAL JOEY this lab will focus on strengthening each participants’ rehearsal process, beginning with score preparation, table work and will then move into staging and choreographic rehearsals. Open performances will be a mix of staged and choreographed scenes and table readings.

This project is made possible through the generous support of the Frederick Loewe Foundation. 

Cast:
Fabio Motta – Joey
Graham Shadow Boxer – Mike
R. David Robinson – Ludlow Lowell
Lisa Hickman – Vera
Jen Gorman – Gladys Bumps
Keely Hutton – Linda
Diana Ocampo – Melba Snyder
Eleonora Cacciola – The Kid

Male Ensemble
Jeff Moulton
Orlando Ocampo
Angelo Fiore
Ye Hao

Female Ensemble
Nana Tatebarashi
Sarah Tranchina
Ener Cui
Alexandra Leafloor

Set Designer | Steven Hammel
Costume Designer | Emma Steen
Choreographer | Allison Plamondon
Music Director | Paul Chamlin
Music Director | Robert Grusecki
Stage Manager | Mia Schachter
Asst. Stage Manager | Vanessa Joyce & Emma Steen
Designer / Technical Director | Brian Kafel
Production Manager | Daniel Allen Nelson

About PAL JOEY
Originally produced on Broadway in 1940, with Gene Kelly staring in the title role, PAL JOEY features a book by John O’Hara and score and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The plot is based on several of O’Hara’s short stories that were originally published in The New Yorker magazine.

Set in the rough and tumble world of Chicago nightclubs in the late 1930’s PAL JOEY follows the career and romances of an opportunistic and charming singer named Joey Evans.

Many of the songs in PAL JOEY have become standards in the American Musical Theatre Songbook; “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “You Mustn’t Kick It Around,” “I Could Write a Book” and “What is a Man.”

When PAL JOEY first opened it challenged Broadway audiences with it’s hardedged characters and sophisticated themes. Since it’s original production it has had 5 major revivals in New York and London, perhaps the most celebrated of these being the 1952 production for which the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical went to HB faculty member Helen Gallagher!

 

HB Performance Labs provide actors who are well advanced in their technique opportunities to participate in the development and performance of Studio works-in-progress, guided by HB faculty or guest artists. Open by audition, participation is free of charge. Labs meet three times weekly over 5 weeks, with public sharing — performances or open rehearsals — in week 5.

First Floor Residency – NEVER ODD OR EVEN

NEVER ODD OR EVEN

First Floor Studio Residency

Work-in-progress Performance Presentation
(Ending with Q&A, Topic: DIY Theater)
Sunday, August 23 at 7pm
RSVP

Open Rehearsals – No RSVP, Come anytime!
Saturday, August 15, 4pm-8pm
Sunday, August 16, 4pm-8pm (ending with Q&A, Topic: devised theater)
Saturday, August 22, 4pm-8pm 

TITLE:POINT productions
Directed by
Theresa Buchheister
Written by Ryan William Downey, Theresa Buchheister, Scott Ries, Spencer T. Campbell
Featuring: Justin Anselmi, Ryan William Downey, Glor Klar, Catrin Lloyd-Bollard & J.R. Rose

Title:Point turn their hectic gaze toward beginnings and endings
in the palindromic fever dream, Never Odd or Even.
Five isolated human shapes
Pivot through time and space while
Navigating the fantastical beasts,
Dead playwrights,
Confounding mathematicians,
And earnest cowboys
They encounter and become.

Developed by residencies at
Pilot Balloon in Lawrence, Kansas and
HB Studio in New York City.

Title:Point is proud to present
Their phantasmagorical delve
Into the interiors
Of
The
M
I
N
D
.

Catch a full performance of NEVER ODD OR EVEN
at The Brick Theater, Williamsburg Sep 08, 2015 – Sep 19, 2015
www.bricktheater.com
Use discount code PALINDROME for $12 tickets! (regularly $18)
www.titlepoint.org

First Floor Studio Residency
 – HB Studio is dedicated to training and practice for the theatre and to the ongoing artistic development of actors, directors, and playwrights. The Studio will, at intervals throughout the year, make workshop performance space available in our First Floor Studio for the development of creative projects that further the training and artistic practices fostered at HB. The Studio is not a producing organization, nor should these presentations be construed as “showcases” or “productions.” Rather, we offer an opportunity for associated artists to collaborate on experimental projects, to be shared among peers and colleagues, for constructive critical feedback and mutual growth. 

NEA and NYSCA Acknowledgement

The Central Park Plays

Central Park Plays

A 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL featuring
selected work from the playwriting classes of 
Donna de Matteo and Julie McKee.

Reservations available starting June 1st at 1pm
RSVP

or call 212-989-7856 between 1pm-5pm, Monday through Friday

HB Playwright’s Theatre

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The Central Park Plays

Central Park Plays

A 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL featuring
selected work from the playwriting classes of 
Donna de Matteo and Julie McKee.

Reservations available starting June 1st at 1pm
RSVP

or call 212-989-7856 between 1pm-5pm, Monday through Friday

HB Playwright’s Theatre

June 25, 26, 27, and 28 at 8pm, June 27 and 28 at 3pm

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Performance Lab – DESIGN FOR LIVING

DESIGN FOR LIVINGDesign For Living

Performance Lab 
First Floor Studio, 120 Bank Street
7pm | May 20, 21, 22, 23, & 24

by Noël Coward
Directed by Jack Hofsiss

“Love Among The Artists”

With Jim Boerlin, Nick DeSimone, Brian Groudan, Duncan Hazard, Laura Hooper, Jesse Lehman, Elizabeth Maille, Marion McCorry, Ashish Pant, Ruby Rees-Wemyss and Jeffrey Young

Assistant Director | Ashish Pant
Set Designer | Nikolay Sviridchik
Lighting Designer | Beverly Emmons
Costume Designer | Catherine Siracusa
Sound Designer | Skip Greer
Stage Manager | KT Sanders
Asst. Stage Manager | Vanessa Joyce
Technical Director | Brian Kafel
Production Manager | Daniel Allen Nelson

 

HB Performance Labs provide actors who are well advanced in their technique opportunities to participate in the development and performance of Studio works-in-progress, guided by HB faculty or guest artists. Open by audition, participation is free of charge. Labs meet three times weekly over 5 weeks, with public sharing — performances or open rehearsals — in week 5.

Noel Coward Foundation

 

 

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Noël Coward Foundation

 

CENTRAL PARK PLAYS

Central Park Plays

A 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL featuring
selected work from the playwriting classes of 
Donna de Matteo and Julie McKee.

RSVP
or call 212-989-7856 between 1pm-5pm, Monday through Friday

HB Playwright’s Theatre
April 23, 24, 25, & 26 at 8pm and April 25 at 3pm

Continue reading →

CENTRAL PARK PLAYS

Central Park Plays

A 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL featuring
selected work from the playwriting classes of 
Donna de Matteo and Julie McKee.

RSVP
or call 212-989-7856 between 1pm-5pm, Monday through Friday

HB Playwright’s Theatre
April 23, 24, 25, & 26 at 8pm and April 25 at 3pm

Continue reading →