Musical Cafe announcements

[Sandy]

Unfortunately, we still don’t have a quiet place to hold regular Musical Café meetings.  Vicky and Judith have both offered their homes as meeting places, but both have been involved in shows this spring and have been unable to host a meeting. 

Here are some upcoming shows and events of interest:
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TWO NIGHTS ONLY!
May 13 & 14, 2013
The Eureka Theatre

“Once in Love with Loesser”
Words and Music by Frank Loesser
Written and Directed by Greg MacKellan
     
EMILY SKINNER, Tony-nominated Broadway star of Sideshow, Billy Elliott, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight, and others, guest stars in this celebration of one of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley’s greatest songwriters!

Loesser was the man behind such standards as "Baby, It’s Cold Outside," "Let’s Get Lost," "Luck Be a Lady," "Heart and Soul," "On a Slow Boat to China," "If I Were a Bell," "Once in Love With Amy," "I Believe in You," "Standing on the Corner," "Can’t Get Out of This Mood" and the scores for musical comedies Guys And Dolls, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Where’s Charley?, and The Most Happy Fella.

http://www.42ndstmoon.org/loesser

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FREE musical theatre!

    The Fantasticks: Free Off Broadway Musical | Mission Dist (donations welcome)

    The 16th Street Players in association with Mission Dolores Basilica Choir present Off  Broadway’s longest running and beloved musical The Fantasticks, with its timeless tale of love found, love lost and love renewed.

    In The Fantasticks, two neighboring fathers trick their children into falling in love by forbidding them to do so. They build a wall between their houses, fabricate a feud, and stage a grand abduction, all so that the boy can rescue his love. But when he does, the young couple  finds out that sometimes love is not exactly what you dream of.

    Directed by Jonathan F. Rosen with music direction by Jerome Lenk. Limited seating. Free parking. Handicap-accessible.
Opening Friday, May 10-7:30; Sat. May 11-3pm; Sun. May 11–3pm
Fri. May 17–7:30pm; Sat May 18-7:30pm; Sun. May 19-3pm (Closing)

Mission Dolores Academy
3371 16th Street (at Dolores), San Francisco
Info: 650-952-3021
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Attend COMPARED TO WHAT? and arrive in 1926 West Oakland, the end of the transcontinental railroad and the beginning of social and economic mobility for African Americans through the founding of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. COMPARED TO WHAT?, written and directed by Musical Café member Judith Offer, will be performed May 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 at 8:00pm and May 12 & 19 at 4:00pm.

Learn more:
http://facebook.com/ComparedToWhatThePlay.

Purchase Tickets:
http://brownpapertickets.com/event/354791

https://www.facebook.com/ComparedToWhatThePlay?fref=ts
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Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly: A Tribute to Composer/Lyricist Irving Berlin
Multi-media presentation by Musical Theatre Historian Bonnie Weiss
Sunday, May 19 2:00-4:00 at the Berkeley Jewish Community Center
Admission $12-15.  Please see attached for details (it’s at the bottom of the page).

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New Musical Theater of San Francisco presents…
Chance - A Musical Play about Love, Risk & Getting it Right
A World Premiere by Richard Isen
Inspired by Quotations From the Writings of Oscar Wilde
July 5 – 28, 2013
Limited Engagement – 18 performances
Thurs. and Fri. - 8:00 pm / Sat. 2 Shows - 3:00 & 8:00 pm / Sun. - 5:00 pm
Previews are July 5, 6 & 7 - Opening Night Thurs. July 11, 2013
Alcove Theater in San Francisco
http://thealcovetheater.com For more info call 415- 992- 8168

A gay psychologist and a handsome young rent boy stumble down a unique path to healing when guided by a mysterious Hollywood glamor queen (played by a gender illusionist).  55 year old Gregory has spent his adult life denying the loss he experienced as a young man during AIDS crisis.  After a near-death experience, The Lady appears.  Is she an inner guide from the Jungian collective unconscious?  Or a musical hallucination resulting from a small stroke? Gregory is pushed out of his solitary reality, by his unlikely muse, and down the rabbit hole of mid-life crisis where he enters into a turbulent, dangerous relationship with a young male escort named "Chance."
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ANMT Search for New Musicals deadline is July 1.

 If you've written a musical, and you would like some honest, constructive, detailed feedback on how to make your musical better, you can submit your musical to ANMT for dramaturgical feedback at levels from evaluation to analysis to table reading to workshop to concert reading.

All musicals submitted (at any level) to ANMT by JULY 1 of any year will be automatically entered in the Search for New Musicals for the next season.

Winners will be announced by November 1 following the annual deadline. The winner of the Search receives a workshop with the Academy Repertory Company, detailed feedback from the ANMT staff, and will be given a concert reading as part of the next STAGES FESTIVAL in Los Angeles. 

Note:  There are fees attached to all of the levels of development available through ANMT.  The entry level is $100 for a 20-30 minute audio Script Overview; the next level is an in-depth 2-3 hour video Analysis for $400.  "We know that some writers do not feel that there should be fees attached to script submissions, but our feeling is that the fee is for the Script Overview, and the entry into the Search is a side benefit.  If you are submitting your musical ONLY because you want to win a contest, then the Search probably isn't right for you."

Details at http://www.anmt.org/search_submit1.asp