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NEXT IN THEATER B MARCH 12 - APRIL 13 THE PLAY COMPANY presents THE U.S. PREMIERE RAINBOW KISS Sometimes two people aren’t meant to be together. Sometimes when two people get together something terrible happens. Keith stakes everything on one night with Shazza. He doesn’t fit in to her master plan, yet she can’t stay away. Acclaimed Scottish playwright Simon Farquhar’s first play paints a stark portrait of life and love on the underside of Aberdeen’s oil boom. THE LOST GENERATION presents THE JAZZ AGE BY ALLAN KNEE DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER McELROEN $35 (59E59 MEMBERS $24.50) BY SIMON FARQUHAR DIRECTED BY WILL FREARS TUE-FRI 8:15, SAT 2:15 & 8:15, SUN 3:15 ADDITIONAL PERF: SUN 2/10 7:15 BUY TICKETS: IN PERSON AT 59E59 THEATERS BOX OFFICE 59 EAST 59TH STREET (PARK/MADISON) BY PHONE 212-279-4200 ONLINE AT WWW.TICKETCENTRAL.COM FEBRUARY 8 - MARCH 2 LOVE THEATER? LOVE NEW YORK? 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REHEARSED AT PEARL STUDIOS, NYC, NY LIGHTING EQUIPMENT BY 4WALL ENTERTAINMENT DRUM EQUIPMENT PROVIDED BY DAN McMILLAN WIGS BY CHARLES LAPOINTE BY RESIDENT COMPANY, PRIMARY STAGES BECOME A 15% DISCOUNT AT SELECT LOCAL RESTAURANTS FOR ONLY $59.59 SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ON ALL SHOWS PRESENTED $2 DISCOUNT ON ALL DRINKS AT THE E:BAR NO-FEE TICKET ORDERING BY PHONE TICKET EXCHANGE UP TO 48 HOURS PRIOR TO PERFORMANCE (SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY) MEMBER TODAY TO JOIN CALL 212-753-5959 EXT. 104 OR VISIT WWW.59E59.ORG ELYSABETH KLEINHANS President and Artistic Director KENNY NUNEZ Deputy House Manager PETER TEAR Executive Producer WILFREDO FELIZ Assistant House Manager JAMES SPARNON Production Manager LAUREN GORSTAYN Front of House Assistant GINGER DZERK Ticketing Services Manager STEPHANIE MORO Front of House Assistant A. SCOTT FALK Business Manager ANTHONY BULNES Usher SPONDEE Theater Technician JONATHAN CLANDER Usher CHRISTINE HUERTAS Theater Technician MACK EXILUS Usher SARAH ARNOLD Theater Technician JENNIFER SACKS Assistant to the Executive Producer KAREN GRECO Press Representative KELLY DAVIS Press and Marketing Assistant BRIAN J. HECK Box Office Supervisor ERIN SINGLETON Box Office Supervisor NICOLA V. BUCK Box Office Supervisor ROSA FERNANDEZ Usher JODIE MALDONADO Usher COLLIN McCONNELL Usher MARCOS MIRANDA Usher JULIO MOLINA Usher JILLIAN OCASIO Usher JOSÉ RIVERA Usher ADAM SMITH Usher PETER CARRIER Box Office Associate KATIE TOTMAN Usher BRIAN HINDS Box Office Associate CANDY VAZQUEZ Usher JUSTIN MARURI Box Office Associate KIMBERLY BATES Receptionist ALBERTO ROSARIO E:BAR Assistant “JUNIOR” GOMEZ Facilities ANTHONY BAGNOLI E:BAR Staff TAISHA ARENA Housekeeping ALICE JOHNSON E:BAR Staff ANDRE HANNA Housekeeping BILL THEATER B 59E59 THEATERS CHRISTOPHER McELROEN THE LOST GENERATION presents AMY RUTBERG (Zelda Sayre) New York: Our Leading Lady (Manhattan Theatre Club), Bat Boy (Directors Company), Company member of Don't Quit Your Night Job at the HA! Comedy Club. National Tours: The Civil War, Man of La Mancha. Los Angeles: The Rocky Horror Show at the Tiffany, Grave White Way (Hudson), Dracula the Musical (La Jolla Playhouse). Recent TV: "Law and Order", "Everwood", recurring "As the World Turns", HBO's "Recount" coming out in May 2008. Graduate UCLA. DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER McELROEN SCENIC DESIGNER TROY HOURIE COSTUME DESIGNER KIMBERLY GLENNON LIGHTING DESIGNER COLIN D. YOUNG PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ANITA ROSS* TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR VADIM MALINSKIY MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS KELVYN BELL CASTING DIRECTOR GEOFF JOSSELSON GENERAL MANAGER R. ERIN CRAIG / LA VIE PRODUCTIONS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JANA ROBBINS CAST (In Alphabetical Order) PJ SOSKO (Ernest Hemingway) Off-Broadway: Serendib, EST; Leap, Abingdon; The End of You, The Lion. Regional: Orphans - Treat, Penguin Rep; Much Ado About Nothing - Benedick, The Folger; Angels In America - Joe Pitt, The Hangar. TV: “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “The Black Donnellys”. Film: Paul Sorvino's "Looking for Cali", “EZ”, “Church and State”, “The Standard Man”, “The Reunion” (First Run and Avignon Film Festival winner). ZELDA SAYRE AMY RUTBERG* ERNEST HEMINGWAY PJ SOSKO* F. SCOTT FITZGERALD DANA WATKINS* MUSICIANS GUITAR KELVYN BELL BASS KIM DAVIS DRUMS / VIOLA SHAYSHAHN MACPHERSON STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE GENERAL MANAGER ERIN ASHLAND PRODUCTION ASSISTANT / CREW MELISSA MAE GREGUS WARDROBE SUPERVISOR KATHLEEN MACK ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGER MICHELE WEATHERS MASTER ELECTRICIAN TOM DYER LIGHTING BOARD PROGRAMMER ANJEANETTE STOKES CARPENTERS BRUNO FONTAINE, BOBBY McGINNIS, JOHN MARTINEZ, DANNY NAISH, JACK WALKER-PEARSE GRAPHIC DESIGN TODD ALAN JOHNSON SCENIC ARTIST JOSEPH GOURLEY BANKING SIGNATURE BANK, MARY ANN FANELLI and MARGARET MONIGAN DANA WATKINS (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Was last seen in My First Time at New World Stages. Other roles include Marat/Sade (Corday), Native Son (Jan Erlone), Macbeth (Banquo) and The Cherry Orchard (Trofimov) at CTH, Charles in The French Lieutenant’s Woman at The Fulton (world premiere), Kafka in Stanley Walden’s Letter to My Father at the Kaye Playhouse (U.S. premiere) and Poe in the one man show An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe. TV: “OLTL”, “Guiding Light”, “The City”. Film: “The Empath”, “Dreamgirl”, “Unbridled”. Graduate of SUNY Purchase. (Director) Is the Co-Founder of the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Selected directing credits include The Cherry Orchard with Earle Hyman, The Blacks (4 OBIE Awards), a post-Katrina inspired Waiting for Godot, which he recently remounted outdoors in the Lower 9th Ward and Gentilly section of New Orleans and the international tour of Sekou Sundiata's the 51st (dream) state, which premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music in November 2006. ALLAN KNEE (Playwright) Is the author of play, The Man Who Was Peter Pan, which was the basis for the film “Finding Neverland” (starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet). His romantic dance drama, Syncopation, which won an American Critics Theater Award, is scheduled for a New York opening in the fall of 2008. He wrote the book for the Broadway musical, Little Women (music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein), starring Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern. Among his other works are Shmulnik's Waltz (music by David Shire), Santa Anita '42 and A Dream Within A Dream, about the life of Edgar Allan Poe. For PBS he wrote the four-part adaptation of “The Scarlet Letter”. He has written an independent film called “Forgiveness” for Bright Shining City Productions, and is currently working on two new films, “The Knife” and “Diamonds and Rust”. Allan is a graduate of the Yale Drama School and a member of the Naked Angels and the Workshop Theater Co. TROY HOURIE (Scenic Designer) Off-Broadway includes: The Dutchman, Havana is Waiting (Cherry Lane Theatre); Esoterica (Daryl Roth Two); Temporary Help (2003 Drama Desk Nomination); Throw Pitchfork (NYTW); Tartuffe (Acting Company); The Passion of Frida Kahlo (Directors Company/Arclight) and Classical Theatre of Harlem (Resident Set Designer, 2007 Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination for Marat/Sade). Other NYC credits include: BAM, TheatreworksUSA, The Culture Project, INTAR and Juilliard Drama School. Regional includes: The Guthrie, Syracuse Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Alabama Shakespeare and GeVa Theatre. KIMBERLY GLENNON (Costume Designer) As resident costume designer for the Classical Theatre of Harlem she has received a 2003 Obie Award, a 2005 Audelco Award and two American Theatre Wing nominations. Other credits include: Growing Up A Slave (American Place Theatre), Bulrusher (Urban Stages) and The Magic Flute (Ohio Northern University). She also has two short films running in the New York Divided: Slavery exhibit at the New York Historical Society. COLIN D. YOUNG (Lighting Designer) Off-Broadway: Primary Stages: In the Continuum; CTH: The Blacks, Crazy Locomotive (2003 Audelco Award), Native Son and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Signature: Talking Pictures and Fragments. Reverie: Widows, Rearviewmirror, Billboard, Fatboy and American Ma(u)l. Regional: Goodman, Guthrie, Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Cincinnati Playhouse, CTG-Kirk Douglas, Philadelphia Theatre Co. International: Traverse and Assembly Theatres, Edinburgh; Market Theatre, Johannesburg. Upcoming at 59E59: Life in a Marital Institution by James Braly. Colin is also the Producing Artistic Director and co-founder of Reverie Productions. VADIM MALINSKIY (Technical Supervisor) Recent credits include 1001 for Page 73 Productions, Bill W. and Dr. Bob and Burleigh Grime$ at New World Stages and he was the Venue Technician for NYMF at The Barrow Group for the 2007 season. Most recently he was technical supervisor at 59E59 for The Park Avenue Whirl. He freelances with Primary Stages, The New Group and Aurora Productions. He is a recent graduate of Design Technology at SUNY Purchase College. KELVYN BELL (Musical Director and Music Arrangements / Guitar) Studied guitar and composition at Missouri University and Southern Illinois before moving to NYC in 1978 to record and tour internationally with top names in jazz including Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, James Carter and Maceo Parker. Leader of the avant-funk ensemble KELVYNATOR, Mr. Bell served 12 years as Director of Jazz for The Harlem School of the Arts and is currently Resident Composer for The Classical Theatre of Harlem. R. ERIN CRAIG / LA VIE PRODUCTIONS (General Manager) Recent credits include: 1001 (NYC Premiere); Unlock’d (NYMF 2007); Sherlock Holmes (The Early Years) (NYMF 2007); In The Heights (37 Arts); High Fidelity (Boston/Broadway); Brilliant Mistake: Broadway Sings Elvis Costello (Benefit for Friends in Deed at John Jay College Theater); Hurlyburly starring Ethan Hawke and Parker Posey (37 Arts); Shockheaded Peter (The Little Shubert Theatre); De La Guarda in Seoul, Korea; Tel Aviv, Israel; NYC and Las Vegas. La Vie Productions is dedicated to managing, developing and producing new shows, fostering new talents and attracting new audiences. JANA ROBBINS (Executive Producer) Is both an actress and producer. She has appeared on Broadway in Good News, I Love My Wife, Crimes of the Heart, Romance/Romance, Gypsy (Standby Tyne Daly), The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (Standby Linda Lavin and Michele Lee) and starred opposite Valerie Harper in its National Tour, as well as numerous regional, television and film appearances. Ms. Robbins produced Allan Knee's Little Women on Broadway starring Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern, Off-Broadway's I Love You Because and recently produced the new musical Unlock'd, winner "Best In The Fest" Audience Award NYMF 2007. ANITA ROSS (Production Stage Manager) Is a second generation Stage Manager. Her credits include: Broadway: Judgment at Nuremberg, Night Must Fall, The Sunshine Boys, The Gin Game, State Fair, She Loves Me. Off-Broadway: Kaos, The Persians, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, All in the Timing, The River, Shakespeare’s Cabaret II and various National Tours and Regional Theater Productions. Anita is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. GEOFF JOSSELSON (Casting Director) Current projects include Glimpses of the Moon (Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel), The Last Five Years (Denver Center), Nickelodeon’s “The Backyardigans Live!” and productions for North Shore Music Theatre and Kansas City Starlight Theatre. Recently, Geoff cast the York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti and the premiere productions of Sympathy Jones, Such Good Friends and Going Down Swingin' for NYMF 2007. With Calleri Casting: the upcoming film “Dragon Ball” and the Ivory Joe Cole workshop. Previously, Geoff worked on the casting of Altar Boyz, West Side Story, Carmen, Mimi Le Duck and Fanny Hill. Graduate of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. MELISSA MAE GREGUS (Production Assistant / Crew) Is a recent transplant from New Orleans, where she was a Stage Manager and a Lighting Designer on many shows. Her New York credits include Prospect Theatre Company and Page 73. She is also a Stage Managing Teaching Artist at Roundabout. *Member of Actors' Equity Association. ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, producing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org