BRINGING BROADWAY TO JERSEY CITY!
at The Barrow Mansion
May 26-31, 2015
Join us this week for FREE theatre and a gala with Broadway singers!
Special guest artists include:
Leslie Becker
(Amazing Grace, Bonnie & Clyde, Anything Goes, and Nine.)
Cynthia Leigh Heim
(The Music Man and The Scarlet Pimpernel.)
Dennis Holland
(The Music Man and multiple national voice spots for TV & radio.)
and Speranza's 2015 Spirit of Hope Award recipient:
Melody Brooks
Spring Festival 2015
May 26th-May 31st
at the Barrow Mansion
FREE ADMISSION
1 week, 5 plays, 40 artists and YOU!
Tuesday, May 26th @ 7:30pm
SPRING FESTIVAL - Excerpts from all 5 plays!
Wednesday, May 27th @ 7:30pm
AND IT SPINS TWICE, by Alexis Roblan
Beth and Liz are the same woman, born ten years apart. Both are theoretical physicists, both are involved with a man named Ryan, and both are grappling with the possibility that it’s all about to end.
Directed by Michael Padden
Beth: Sara Thigpen*
Liz: Kristin Condon*
Ryan: Thom Christensen
June: Betsy Aiello Sanders*
Thursday, May 28th @7:30pm
STITCHES IN TIME, by Caren Skibell
Stitches in Time asks what happens to a 1960s housewife who tries to launch a career for herself, and how does it affect her daughter many years later?
Directed by Jennie Contuzzi
Kim Berger: Ginny Bartolone*
Elaine Berger: Patty Nieman*
Jack Berger: Dared Wright*
Aleesha/Janice/Linda: Laysha Duran
Brandon/Guy 2/Guy 3/Dave: Danny Score
Louis/Guy1/Guy 4/Ethan: Ben Bartelone*
Maya/Patricia/Fabric Store Employee: Michelle Kim
Saturday, May 30th at 3pm
WILDWOOD FLOWER, by Jennie Berman Eng
Franny and John have just had baby Maybel, and everything suddenly has changed between them. Franny feels lonely and isolated as a new, stay-at-home Mom, and John resents having to be the sole earner in the family. Franny meets Daniel, whose wife recently miscarried. They find comfort and friendship with one another, and soon their relationship becomes murky. They start to imagine what life would be like if they were a family raising Maybel. Can Franny leave John, the one she really loves, for an easier life? Wildwood Flower is about a woman’s struggle to find herself as a mother, and how easily a happy marriage can end up on the brink.
Directed by Diana Basmajian
Maybel: Ruby Hankey
Franny: Heather Wahl*
John: Faust Checho*
Daniel: Greg Schmalbach*
Libby: Diana Cherkas*
Saturday, May 30th @ 7:30pm
THE WAY OF RALPH, by John Cassel
It's 2009, and New York City is on the cusp of solving the four-year-old mystery of the maple syrup smell. Twitter is catching on, making it easier and easier for manias to go viral. And, both fortunately and unfortunately for webmistress Yvette Ferguson, her humor blog, Snark Attack, has spawned the latest craze: A new religion centered on her block's homeless panhandler.
Directed by Malinda Sorci
Street: Brian Richardson*
Baxter: John Hardin
Meredith: Natalie Pavelek
Kevin: Trey K. Blackburn
Yvette: Laura Gourdine
Starshine: Larissa Adamczyk
Kathryn: Elyse Knight*
Sunday May 31st @ 3pm
IMAGINARY, by Nick Radu
Jack Cartwright has passed on after being involved in a tragic car accident. Before passing on to “the other side,” Jack must take on the job as Imaginary Friend to 8‐year‐old Molly Hamilton. Jack is just another notch in Molly’s candy lipstick case as she has been through six Imaginary Friends already in her short life. Sampson, the angelic spirit in charge of the Imaginary Friend Network, explains the rules of imaginary friending to a reluctant Jack, who finds the task slightly more daunting than he expected.
Directed by Malini Singh McDonald
Jack Cartwright: Nick Radu
Molly Hamilton: Marley Cetti
Simone Simmons: Stephanie Marie Andersen
Samson/Charlie/Pizza Delivery Guy: Trey K. Blackburn
Nancy Hamilton: Laura Cetti
Jonathan Hamilton: Ian McDonald
Cally Cartwright: Diana Cherkas*
