CAZ DIES ALONE Begins Previews March 11 at Abingdon Theatre Complex

By: Feb. 24, 2005
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Happy Accident will premiere CAZ DIES ALONE on Wednesday, March 16th 2005 in the Abingdon Theatre Complex's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th St. – first floor) Previews begin March 11th. CAZ DIES ALONE is about two friends, a cranky cameraman and an intimacy-phobic poet, who become roommates with a free-spirited dancer from Long Island who unlocks their hearts and ruins their lives. Robert Davenport is the founder and Artistic Director of Happy Accident, which is devoted to new plays and developing new plays via improvisation. He just completed a season as a member of Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab where he directed the first public reading of Rob Handel's Being Difficult and also recently directed new plays for another OBIE award-winner, Clubbed Thumb, and for the acclaimed Rude Mechanicals. Robert premiered Bad Juju (2001) and Filthy Stinking Rich (2002), each created using the improvisational theater development techniques of British playwright and filmmaker Mike Leigh.

CAZ DIES ALONE is a new play developed from improvisation and performed by Andrew Cassese (Revenge of the Nerds I and II), Anna Cody, Laura Flanagan, Lawrence Jansen and Tricia McAlpin. Scenic Design is by Andrew Cavanaugh Holland, Lighting Design is by Peter West, and Sound Design is by Christopher Libertino. Dramaturgy is by Sonya Sobieski who was Literary Manager and Dramaturg at Playwrights Horizons for six years.

Happy Accident was founded in 2001. The company creates new works by first creating characters based on people they know personally. The people's lives are fictionalized and their behaviors merge with the actors' to create entirely different characters. These characters are introduced to one another in a series of real-time, chronological improvisations that become the basis for a fully-scripted work.

Performances of CAZ DIES ALONE are:

March 11-12 at 8 p.m.
March 13 at 3 p.m.
March 16-18 at 8 p.m.
March 19 at 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.

March 20 at 3 p.m.
March 23-25 at 8 p.m.
March 26 at 3 p.m. & 8 pm

Tickets are $15 and are available by calling (212) 561-0508.

*CAZ DIES ALONE IS NOT A PRODUCTION OF ABINGDON THEATRE COMPANY.

Running Time: 90 min.
Closing Date: March 26, 2005


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