This Thursday, July 17, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (1972 Broadway at 66th Street, 3rd Floor) will host an afternoon with the critically acclaimed Off Broadway musical Adding Machine. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a special 30 minute suite from the show, featuring the entire cast and band, followed by a cast CD signing. The performance will be hosted by special guest Austin Pendleton. Customers will have the opportunity to purchase the World Premiere PS Classics recording onsite. In addition, the recording is available wherever CD's are sold, and online at www.psclassics.com.
Adding Machine will play its final performance this Sunday, July 20 at the Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane). After having received some of the best reviews of any musical this season (on or Off Broadway), Adding Machine was awarded 2 Outer Critics Circle Awards (Outstanding New Off Broadway Musical, Outstanding New Score), 4 Lucille Lortel Awards (including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Director, Outstanding Lead Actor, Outstanding Lighting Design), 4 Obie Awards (plus 10 total nominations from the Drama Desk Awards and Drama League Awards, including Best Musical).
Adding Machine also presented to New York to the extraordinary debut of
Joshua Schmidt whose award-winning score will soon be heard in European productions, regional theaters and in opera houses around the world.
Direct from a smash World Premiere at Chicago's Next Theatre Company (winning the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical), Adding Machine features a score by
Joshua Schmidt and a libretto by
Jason Loewith and Mr. Schmidt. Under the direction of
David Cromer, Adding Machine stars
Cyrilla Baer as 'Mrs. Zero,' Joel Hatch as 'Mr. Zero' and
Amy Warren as 'Daisy.' The featured cast includes
Joe Farrell as 'Shrdlu,'
Jeff Still as the 'Boss,'
Adinah Alexander as 'Mrs. Two,'
Niffer Clarke as 'Mrs. One,' Roger E. DeWitt as 'Mr. Two' and
Daniel Marcus as 'Mr. One.'
Darkly comic and heartbreakingly beautiful, Adding Machine, a musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's incendiary 1923 play, tells the story of Mr. Zero, who after 25 years of service to his company is replaced by a mechanical adding machine. In a vengeful rage, he murders his boss. An eclectic score gives passionate and memorable voice to this stylish and stylized production, which follows Zero's journey to the afterlife in the Elysian Fields where he is met with one last chance for romance and redemption.
Adding Machine is produced Off Broadway by
Scott Morfee,
Tom Wirtshafter and Margaret Cotter, and features scenic design by
Takeshi Kata, lighting design by
Keith Parham, costume design by
Kristine Knanishu, sound design by
Tony Smolenski, projection design by Peter Flaherty, properties design by Michele Spadaro and musical direction by
J. Oconer Navarro.
The album is produced by Tommy Krasker, co-founder of PS Classics. Founded in 2000 by Krasker and Philip Chaffin, and a four-time Grammy nominee (for its cast albums of Assassins, Nine: The Musical,
Grey Gardens and Company), PS Classics has made significant contributions to the heritage of American popular song through its critically acclaimed cast recordings (including the current Broadway productions of
Xanadu, Sunday in the Park With George and
A Catered Affair); solo albums by such Broadway luminaries as
Christine Andreas,
Rebecca Luker,
Victoria Clark,
Jason Danieley and
Marin Mazzie, and
Jessica Molaskey; and recordings drawn from rare sound archives, including Sondheim Sings. PS Classics is distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment. For more information, visit www.psclassics.com.
Situated one block south of West 3rd Street and East of 6th Avenue, the Minetta Lane Theatre is located at 18 Minetta Lane in Greenwich Village just steps away from the West 4th subway station (A, C, E, B, D, F and V lines). The performance schedule for Adding Machine is Tuesday – Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 3:00 & 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $45 - $69.50 and are available by calling the Minetta Lane Theatre box office at 212-420-8000 or through Ticketmaster at 212-307-4100 or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com. A limited number of $25 student rush tickets are available in person at the box office on the day of the performance, subject to availability.
For more information, visit
www.addingmachineamusical.com.
