Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham will star in a one-night-only performance of The Mail Order Bride - a new comedy by Charles L. Mee - to benefit Resonance Ensemble's 2006 season. The benefit performance of The Mail Order Bride will be presented on Monday, March 27 with a 6:00pm reception and a 7:30pm performance at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street) in Manhattan.
The Mail Order Bride, also featuring Deborah S. Craig, involves an older man (Abraham) who orders up a young Asian bride (Craig) much to the outrage of his family and friends.The reading will be directed by Resonance Ensemble Artistic Director Eric Parness. In addition to Abraham (Oscar-winner for Amadeus, on Broadway in Triumph of Love, Angels in America and more) and Craig (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), it will feature Kelly Aucoin (Julius Caesar), John Cariani (Fiddler on the Roof), Matthew Cowles (Sweet Bird of Youth), Jennifer Mudge (Reckless), and others TBA.Multi-award winning playwright Charles L. Mee's works include: Wintertime (La Jolla, Long Wharf, the Guthrie, Second Stage, etc); bobrauschenbergamerica (BAM - Next Wave Festival, Bonn Festival); Snow in June (American Repertory Theatre); Big Love (La Jolla, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman Theatre, etc - 2002 OBIE Award-winner); True Love (the Zipper, the Holland Festival); First Love (New York Theatre Workshop, San Francisco's Magic Theatre); and Summertime (San Francisco's Magic Theatre - 2001 SF Bay Area Critics Circle Award). Mee's complete works are available on the Internet at www.charlesmee.org. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.
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