We broke even, but we would have considered it a success even if we had lost a little on it," Newsom said of the docudrama about the 1998 murder of the gay college student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming. Newsom reported that the riskiest show of the BTC season - "The Laramie Project" - turned out to be a hit with his audience. The show is a classic, door-slamming farce set in a Cleveland hotel room in 1934, where an ailing opera singer's personal and professional lives come crashing down to earth in a plot much too complex to boil down to a few paragraphs. Of the current comedy, Newsom said, "We wanted to choose something funny where the writing is brilliant and I would place `Lend Me a Tenor' right alongside `Noises Off.' " So far, the young Bridgeport troupe has presented "Hairspray" and "The Laramie Project." After "Lend Me a Tenor," the season will end with "The Music Man" in May. "We've tried to do a wide variety of shows this season to see what the audience desires and then go from there," artistic director Eli Newsom said in an interview last week. Visit `TENOR' IN PARK CITY: After presenting a well-received production of "The Laramie Project" last month, the Bridgeport Theatre Company is shifting gears by presenting the riotous Ken Ludwig farce "Lend Me a Tenor" through March 25 at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre. Visit The Danbury performances are March 31 at 2 and 7 p.m. "The Brothers Grimm and a Showgirl" is being presented at the Off Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway, New Haven, Sunday, March 18, at noon and 2:30 p.m. "We're excited to have another audience," Bernardi said, adding that the company is busily working on plans for the new season in the fall. A representative of the venue saw Bernardi's production of "Cinderella Skeleton" in New Haven earlier in the season, loved it and asked if the Palace could sponsor performances of the next show "We manage to tell all of the major stories with a lot going on all the time - it's a very physical show," he said.īernardi is excited to be expanding Pantochino's reach to the Palace Theater in Danbury for two shows on March 31. The show mixes the story of the real Grimm brothers with scenes from the classic tales they created.īernardi said that while he and his collaborators were batting around ideas, the notion of "and a Showgirl" popped into his head and that eureka moment led to the addition of a modern female character who "is integral to telling the story and getting the brothers out of jams.
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