NIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLY Begins 3/15 At 45 Bleecker St Theater

Stella Cartiano presents Night of the Butterfly, A Musical for Children and Their Adults written by Zack Friedman, with music & lyrics by Dan Kitrosser, additional material provided by Evan Green. Night of the Butterfly will begin performances on Sundays beginning March 15 at 11AM & 1PM and will run through April 26. Running time is 1 hour and tickets are $25 and are available at Telecharge.com and NightoftheButterfly.com.

Night of the Butterfly is a hilarious and poignant new family musical flapping its way to Off-Broadway this spring. Though Beetle was born with broken wings, his head is in the clouds as he yearns to break free from the humdrum world he was born into. Now that he is suddenly being forced to marry the pompous Sylvia Scarab Beetle (you know, of the North Swamp Scarab Beetles?), Beetle has decided he will go on an adventure to find a fallen butterfly. Along with his pals, Pill, a very neurotic caterpillar and Scorpy, a newly vegetarian scorpion, Beetle makes his way through the forest, searching for butterflies and adventures and now families all over New York can come on the journey too.

Night of the Butterfly will feature Evan Greene (Beetle), Zack Friedman (Pill), Dan Kitrosser (Scorpy) and Sheira Feuerstein (Mama Beetle, Sylvia, Butterfly).

NIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLY
A Musical for Children and Their Adults
Book By Zack Friedman; Music & Lyrics By Dan Kitrosser, Additional Material By Evan Greene

Performances Schedule every Sunday 11AM & 1PM, beginning March 15, 2009

45 Bleecker Street Theatre is located at 45 Bleecker Street
Tickets are $25 and are available at Telecharge.com and www.NightoftheButterfly.com.
Group rates available by calling 917 575 0414.
Running time is 1 hour
To hear track from the show please visit www.NightoftheButterfly.com

Dan Kitrosser (Music & Lyrics / Scorpion) is an actor, storyteller and playwright. He was last been seen as Off-Broadway as Blizzard the Wizard at Urban Stages, for which NYTheatre.com described him as having "the energy of a whole barrel of monkeys." Kitrosser is the resident storyteller for both Bryant and Central Park, and has had three one-man children shows commissioned from Urban Stages, including "Blizzard the Wizard," "Around the World for Magda Magellan" and "Grizelda's Halloween Party." As an actor, he is a resident artist with Rabbit Hole Ensemble. His plays include "The Mumblings" (Working Man's Clothes), "The Happiest Girls in the World" (NYU) and "be here now" (Winner - Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival). Go to www.danielstories.com.

Zack Friedman (Book / Pill) is an award-winning writer whose plays include "The Suite Life," "crazy" (Philadelphia Playwrights Awards), "The Stupidest Place on Earth," "Praying for Grace" (Harold Steinberg Prize- Best Original Play; PlayersTime & WritingBloc official selection), "A Song for Sophie," and "Nothing Happens in March." Acting credits include "The Laramie Project" (Candace Brown, dir.), "The Winter's Tale" (Tina Packard, dir.) "Secret Lives of the Sexists" (Oliver Butler, dir.), and "The Corner Table at the Cafe Noir." Children's theater productions include "Treasure Island" for the Paint Box Theater Company, and "A Dolphin Up a Tree" at the DR2. He is a graduate of the American Theater Wing's Springboard program and holds a B.A. in Theater Arts and English Literature from Brandeis University.

Evan Green (Additional Material / Beetle) is an actor and producer in New York City. He is the Managing Director and one of the founders of Highwire Theatre. With Highwire, he has produced Iphigenia at Aulis, The King Is Dead, and their annual new play reading series, Testing the Line, twice. He also produced In the Absence at the Fall Fashion Playfest in September 2005. Acting credits include A Dolphin Up A Tree! (Off-Broadway), CHURCH with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company (PS122 and The Public Theatre), The Shadow in the New York Storytellers series of Fables for Grown-Ups, The King Is Dead (Highwire Theatre) and Wreckage by Caridad Svich (Testing the Line 2008). Evan has also music directed numerous theatrical productions. He holds BAs in Theater Arts and Anthropology from Brandeis University.