Charnin's 'LOVE IS LOVE' Premieres at Maltz Jupiter Theatre 10/15 -25

Love is Love, a new musical revue conceived and directed by Martin Charnin, best-known for co-creating Annie, premieres in Florida for ten performances at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre October 15 - 25, 2009. With music and lyrics by both Charnin and Richard Gray, Love is Love will take you on this journey that grapples with the mysteries and complications of love.

This new musical revue, produced by Rodger Hess, Theatre Board Member, showcases musical numbers and monologues highlighting a multitude of aspects of that indefinable emotion, from love at first sight with its butterfly beginnings, to keeping love alive, to the dying embers of a love gone wrong.

"Love is Love is a musical revue featuring three women exploring a variety of interpersonal relationships in song, dance and dialogue. This is a new show which the Maltz Jupiter Theatre hopes will generate a New York production and touring productions nationwide," says Hess.

Charnin has received four Tony® nominations, two Tony® Awards, six Grammy Awards, three Emmy Awards, three Gold Records, two Platinum Records, six Drama Desk Awards, the Peabody Award for Broadcasting, and most recently another Grammy Award for Jay-Z's rap album, Hard Knock Life, which went triple platinum. As the Tony® Award-winner for Annie, Charnin, who wrote the lyrics, co-created and directed, is now bringing his new piece, Love is Love, to premiere in Florida.

Richard Gray, composer and lyricist, has contributed to Seattle's professional theatre community as a composer, director and performer for almost 20 years. In 2005 and 2006, he was selected as a finalist for the Fred Ebb Award which honors up-and-coming new musical theatre writers.

"Love is Love recaptures, after much too long an absence, the form once known on Broadway as the ‘intimate, sophisticated musical revue,'" says Charnin. "It comes at you in a shape molded by elegance and simplicity; where a tune, is a tune, is a tune. Love is Love returns to the hallmark of the original intimate revue form, and our material, both in text and score, has been written expressly for the stage, and three gifted women, skilled in becoming chameleon-like in their roles (which require them to segue from one female characterization to another in the course of the evening) are at the root of the entertainment."

Auditions for Love is Love will be held locally for the Florida premiere on Thursday, April 16 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre from 10am - 6pm, appointments mandatory. Actresses should prepare two brief contrasting musical theatre songs (up-tempo and ballad) with sheet music (accompanist will be provided) and a one-minute monologue along with headshot and resume. For more information on auditions please contact Rachel Blavatnik at (561) 972-6120 or rblavatnik@jupitertheatre.org.

Love is Love will be onstage Thursday, October 15 through Sunday, October 18 and Thursday, October 22 through Sunday, October 25; Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 2 and 8pm and Sundays at 8pm. Tickets will go on sale Monday, August 31st and will be $28 for orchestra seats and $25 for mezzanine.

For more information and tickets, please call the box office at (561) 575-2223 or visit online at www.jupitertheatre.org.

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre is an award-winning professional not-for-profit regional theatre dedicated to the performing arts whose mission is to entertain, educate and inspire our community. The Theatre is a member of the prestigious League of Resident Theatres and is located east of U.S. Highway 1 at 1001 East Indiantown Road and State Road A1A in Jupiter.