Actor’s Asylum Productions
PRESS RELEASE
Who:               Actor’s Asylum Productions
What:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Songs for a New World
When:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â October 18th through November 17th
                       Friday, Saturday evenings @8pm
                       Sundays @ 4pm and 7:30pm
Price:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â $20 evening performances
                       $18 Sunday matinee performance
                       $3 discount for Seniors/Students/Actor’s Alliance
Where:            Actor’s Asylum
                       6663 El Cajon Blvd. Suite N
                       San Diego, CA 92115
Box Office:Â Â Â Â Â Â 619/465-3742
                       tix@actorsasylum.org
Contact:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pam Benjamin
Beacon Theatre for Actor’s Asylum Productions
(760) 724-8218- office
(760) 716-3865- cell
pamsedai@hotmail.com- email
Actor’s Asylum Productions, with support from Beacon Theatre, proudly present Songs for a New World. The San Diego premiere of this musical review is the first area production of any work of highly acclaimed composer, Jason Robert Brown (Parade), and has themes surrounding community, relationships and life changes. Directed by Danny Campbell and with musical direction by G. Scott Lacy, it opens October 18th 2002 at the Actor’s Asylum Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd., in the College area of San Diego.
Songs for a New World is a witty, intelligent "must" for musical theater lovers. This San Diego premiere tells stories that are occasionally improbable, sometimes hysterical, frequently poignant, and always highly enjoyable.
Director Danny Campbell has
directed numerous productions throughout San Diego and North Counties including
Merrily We
Roll Along
(concert staging for Moonlight Stage Productions at the Avo Theater),
Closer Than Ever (Poway
Performing Arts Center) and Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night (Octad-One Productions). He was most recently seen on
stage in pivotal roles with Starlight Theatre’s 1776 and Actor’s
Asylum’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart.
G. Scott Lacy, Musical
Director, is also returning to the stage as an actor for the first time in 8
years. More recently he has acted as
vocal coach, musical director and accompanist at such local theatres as The La
Jolla Playhouse, Lamb's
Players Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Stage Company,
Malashock Dance, Green Room Theatre Company, and both SDSU and UCSD’s
Departments of Theatre and Dance.
Sandy Campbell, Warren
Nolan and Lee Lampard all come to Songs for a New World direct from
record breaking, critically acclaimed shows. Campbell was last seen in
Moonlight Stage Productions’ Ragtime and Starlight Theatre’s Annie, Nolan
in North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Pageant and Moonlight’s Ragtime and
Lampard in Starlight Theatre’s Jekyll & Hyde and Annie.
This is the second
Production of Actor's Asylum Productions in its home, Actor's Asylum (the first
being Lip's Together, Teeth Apart). The majority of 2002 has been
devoted to providing production and rehearsal space to burgeoning theatre
companies such as Beacon Theatre, Women's Repertory Theatre, Hormonally
inCorrect Productions and The Muse Theatre.
Actor's Asylum Productions
will close 2002 with Robert Anderson's Silent Night Lonely Night opening
December 5th. The schedule for
2003 is being finalized and will be announced during the run of Songs for a
New World.
Songs for a New World runs Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm, and Sunday at both 4pm and 7:30pm at the Actor's Asylum Theatre from October 18th through November 17th.
Produced by:               Actor’s Asylum Productions
Co-Produced by: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Beacon Theatre
Music and Lyrics by: Â Â Â Jason Robert Brown
Directed by: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Danny Campbell
Musical Direction: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â G. Scott Lacy
Starring: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â G. Scott Lacy, Sandy Campbell, Lee Lampard, Warren Nolan
Stage Management:Â Â Â Â Â Laura MontesChoreographer: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Annette Nixon
Costume Design: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Lesley Gurule
Sound Design: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jeff Jones
Technical Director, Set and Light Design: Robert Dahey
Ticket prices: $20.00 for Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, $18.00 for Sunday Matinee, $3 discount for students, seniors, or Actors Alliance.
For Ticket Reservations call Actor’s Asylum Theatre at (619) 465-3742 or email tix@actorsasylum.org.