IRENA'S VOW Headed to Broadway This Spring?

Crain's New York Business is reporting that the Off-Broadway hit IRENA'S VOW could be headed to Broadway in March 2009.

Crain's reports, "Producer Stan Raiff, who helped the nonprofit theater The Directors Company put on the play, is raising $2.5 million for the Broadway run, which he expects to open in March. A number of big-name Broadway producers, including Elizabeth McCann and Fran and Barry Weissler, have been to the play to check it out"

The Directors Company production of Irena's Vow, the new play by Dan Gordon, starring four-time Tony nominee, and three-time Drama Desk Award-winner Tovah Feldshuh and directed by Michael Parva, has added 20 encore performances to its current Off Broadway schedule, by popular demand. Tickets for the November 8 - 25th performances are now on sale, it was announced today. The show was scheduled to end its engagement on Sunday, November 2nd.

The new play, which has received dozens of critical raves, has broken all house records at its current home, the Baruch Performing Arts Center.  For those interested in seeing Irena’s Vow, a cancellation line forms before each of the remaining performances.

Irena’s Vow marks Ms. Feldshuh’s first New York stage appearance since her triumphant (and Tony Award-nominated) turn in Golda’s Balcony (Broadway’s longest-running one-woman show).   The play, which is being presented by The Directors Company in association with Power Productions/Stan Raiff NY, in association with The Polish Cultural Institute in New York, is an Invictus Theatre Company world premiere. 

Irena’s Vow is a riveting, life affirming story about one of the most courageous and unsung heroines of World War II.  During the German occupation of Poland, Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish catholic, was forced to work as head housekeeper for a very prominent German major. Over a two year period of service, Irena would risk her own life in order to save the lives of twelve Jewish refugees whom she secretly took under her care. Irena’s Vow is the extraordinary true story of one woman's choice and the twelve lives that would ultimately be saved – or lost - by her decision.

The cast includes Sandi Carroll, Tracee Chimo, Steven Hauck, Scott Klavan, Peter Reznikoff, Thomas Ryan, Gene Silvers, John Stanisci and Maja Wampuszyc.

The remaining performance schedule for Irena’s Vow is as follows: Mondays at 8 p.m., Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 3 p.m.

 

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