Prospect Announces EVERGREEN: A New Holiday Musical 12/20

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) celebrates the winter holidays with a one-night-only concert staging of EVERGREEN: A New Holiday Musical, on Monday, December 20th at 7pm. Performed by an ensemble of both child and adult actors, this original musical adventure was given its world premiere by Prospect in December 2009, and features a score by 2010 Kleban Prize winner Peter Mills, and book by both Mills and Cara Reichel.

Presented at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (263 West 86th St.), ticket prices for this special event are $25 for regular general admission, $50 for special reserved seating locations ($25 per ticket is tax-deductible), and $100 for patron tickets which include reserved prime seating locations and a gift bag ($75 per ticket is tax-deductible).

Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling (212) 352-3101 or by visiting www.ProspectTheater.org. (Service charges will apply.) Depending on availability, tickets may also be purchased at the box office (cash or check only), which opens one hour prior to performance. Evergreen is appropriate for family audiences and is recommended for children ages 5 and up.
Every winter, Maya listens to her grandmother's stories of a world that used to be: filled with snow and trees. But from her desert homeland it's hard to believe in these memories. So, headstrong Maya embarks on a fantastic adventure to find the Earth's last living evergreens and bring back proof. Anita Vasan returns to reprise the starring role of Maya, along with Lucy Sorlucco as Yamma and Whitney Kam Lee as Joshi. Rounding out the multi-ethnic cast is a youth ensemble aged 9 to 16. Youth performers returning from 2009 include: Jake Bazel, Kayla Caban, Francesca Chaney, Ashley Chu, Audrey Chu, Bridget Crisonino, Sammy Grob, Gabrielle-Marie Kaufman, and Ari Shaps. Newcomers to the ensemble include: Kate Bralower, Olivia Coe, Sabrina Fernandez, Gabriella Green, Kelly Hooper, Lilli Jacobs, Rachel Khutorsky, Fiona McSweeney-Glynn, Ah-Niyah Neal, Livi Perrone, and Lina Silver. Additional adult and youth cast members will be announced in December.

EVERGREEN: A New Holiday Musical will be directed by Cara Reichel with additional staging by Dax Valdes with music direction and orchestrations by Daniel Feyer and Peter Mills.

About the Artists

Recently, Peter Mills wrote music and lyrics for Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge, a critically-acclaimed bluegrass adaptation of J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World set in 1930s Appalachia. He was honored to receive the prestigious 2010 Kleban Prize for lyrics, as well as the 2007 Fred Ebb Award for emerging songwriters, 2006 Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Music and Best Orchestrations, the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and a 2002 grant from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. As Prospect Theater Company's resident writer, Mr. Mills has written music and or lyrics for a total of 11 new musicals, including: Honor, a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It, The Rockae (a hard rock musical based on Euripides' The Bacchae), Iron Curtain (lyrics with Stephen Weiner, music, and Susan DiLallo, book), The Pursuit of Persephone, Lonely Rhymes (a comic song cycle), The Alchemists, Illyria (a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night, which had its regional premiere at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Fall 2004, with a cast album released in April 2005) and The Taxi Cabaret (published by Samuel French in Fall 2004). With Cara Reichel, he wrote The Flood, which was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop (2001). Marco Polo, written with composer Deborah Abramson, was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop in 2000, and Peter and Deborah were chosen as 2000-01 Dramatists Guild Fellows. Peter holds an M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts and a degree in English/Dramatic Literature from Princeton University. He is a founding member of Prospect Theater Company.
Cara Reichel is the Producing Artistic Director and a founding member of Prospect Theater Company. For Prospect, she has recently directed: Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge, Illyria, Honor, The Rockae, The Flood (co-author), Iron Curtain (IT Award Nomination, Best Director), and The Pursuit of Persephone (co-bookwriter), among others. She recently directed Iron Curtain at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals (2009), as well as at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center (2008). Cara received the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, 2004 and 2007 New Directors / New Works grants from the Drama League, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Originally from Rome, Georgia, Cara received her BA from Princeton University and attended the M.F.A. program in directing at Brooklyn College, where she was named 2006 "Alumna of the Year."
About Prospect Theater Company

Prospect Theater Company is a non-profit organization, founded in 1998 by five graduates of Princeton University, in order to allow a diverse group of emerging theater professionals to work together in pursuit of artistic excellence and innovation. Known both for its development of new musicals and its engaging interpretations of classic plays, Prospect strives to build bridges between artists and audiences, and to connect theater's present to its past-in order to build its future.
For more information on Prospect Theater Company, please visit www.ProspectTheater.org.