Musical Mondays Theatre Lab Producing Artistic Directors Bick Goss and Frank Evans and Board President Stephen Hanks announce a sneak preview of the new musical ATTACHMENT on Thursday March 24th at 6:30PM at the Jerry Orbach Theater in the Snapple Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street. Single admission is $15.00. For reservations, call 212 989-6706 or email reservations@musicalmondays.org.
ATTACHMENT is the story of a 40-something happily married couple who adopt a five-year-old Russian boy, only to discover that the child's abusive past emerges in his everyday behavior, sometimes unexpectedly violent. After the boy threatens to kill his adoptive mother, the husband challenges his wife to choose between him and their adoptive son and the marriage starts to unravel. The wife begins treating the boy with a controversial therapy technique which proves to be challenging, frustrating, and often ridiculous. Will the therapy work? Will the marriage and this family survive?
ATTACHMENT is the collaborative effort of Harrington award-winning composer
Carl Danielsen and forensic psychiatrist/conductor Loej Daschler. Daschler is head Drama Professor at Holy Names University and for the last seven years, Artistic Director for Woodminster Amphitheater in the Bay Area. Danielsen, a BMI Foundation Harrington Award winning composer, has been both a MMTL performer and composer, most recently for the score of Persuasion (or 7 Years Bad Sex).
The ATTACHMENT cast includes Broadway performers
Barry Anderson ( Legally Blonde) and
Susan Tilson (Blood Brothers, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof and at Woodminster in the title role of Peter Pan and as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lad. Joining them: Robbie Tann (NYMF: History of War and frequent appearances at the Humana Festival),
Jonathan Monro, a composer-lyricist who has toured extensively with 2 Pianos, 4 Hands; and Travis Nunes (
Moss Hart Award Winning production of Les Miserables)
Director
Nick Corley's credits include Woody Sez for the Edinburgh Fringe and subsequent European Tour and Tall Grass at the
Samuel Beckett on Theatre Row. Musical Director Aaron Jodoin was MD for Trails at NYMF and just completed a five year position as Musical Director of Theatre and Dance at Montclair University.
Next up: The Fartiste, Winner: Outstanding New Musical, 2006 NY Fringe Festival: the life of a most unusual performing artist during the Parisian Belle Époque. Book by
Charlie Schulman, Music and lyrics by
Michael Roberts on Thursday, April 14 at 6:30PM, Snapple Theater Center.
Under the guidance of Artistic Directors
Bick Goss and
Frank Evans, and Board President Stephen Hanks, Musical Mondays Theatre Lab is celebrating its 11th anniversary presenting a first look at new musicals. Previous shows include Pulitzer and Tony® winner
next to normal under the title of Feeling Electric, and the Kleban Prize-winning Wanda's World. Previous seasons introduced Off-Broadway's See Rock City, Cupid and Psyche, Abie's Island Rose, regional productions of
Calvin Berger as well as new work by
Amanda Green,
Robert Lopez and
Jeff Marx.
