Mel & El Offer Free Fagnets at NYMF Ars Nova Concert 9/28

The producers of Mel & El: This Show Rhymes have announced a giveaway. Every single audience member at their New York Musical Theatre Festival concert at Ars Nova on Friday, September 28 at 8PM will receive a Limited Edition Fagnet Magnet absolutely free.

"Mel & El took action after the overwhelmingly positive response to their dance hit FAGNET by commissioning these commemorative magnets because they wanted to be able to give enthusiasts something tangible to take away with them.  Mel and El maintain that the magnets make a lovely addition to any metal surface, but they both agree that refrigerator doors, though obvious, are ideal," state press notes.

To ensure that you are one of the lucky recipients of a Fagnet Magnet, go to www.nymf.org or www.arsnovanyc.com to make your reservation today. You can also call the NYMF box office at (212) 352-3101.

Melanie Adelman believes she is a native New Yorker even though her family moved to Ft. Lauderdale when she was 4 years old. Since escaping the South, some of her favorite experiences include the run of Martin Charnin's The Next-to-the-Last Revue as well as his national tour of Annie as u/s to Marcia Lewis' 'Miss Hannigan'. Other highlights: a stewardess turned alcoholic in Around the World in a Bad Mood (Rose's Turn), an Italian housewife turned activist in We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! (Kitchen Theatre Co.), and a movie studio executive turned vampire in Nosedive Productions' Evil Hellcat and the Liquid Lunch. She has also appeared with The Workshop Theatre Co., Jewish Theatre of NY, Atlanta Theatre of the Stars, and Helen Hayes Theatre Co. Melanie is featured in the indie films "Only Life" (official selection, Cannes Film Festival) and "World's End" which recently aired on...(wait for it)...The SciFi Channel. However, she is most proud of her incredibly brief appearance in the Cher video "Song for the Lonely" where she was instructed by the director (while walking down the street, lip-syncing) to "feel the power of Cher". And she did.

As a writer/lyricist, Melanie has had her work featured with the critically acclaimed performance group The Bubbles – most recently at downtown NYC hot spot The Box. She co-founded the NYC production company Pineapple Project and is currently Associate Producer of a musical in development – The Red Rose Girls. Melanie is a graduate of Ithaca College and is a member of Actor's Equity Association and the Dramatist's Guild. melanieadelman.com.

Ellie Dvorkin grew up in South Florida, where she and Mel attended the University Center for the Performing Arts together, and where, due to a shortage of boys in the summer camp program, one of them often played a man. She moved to New York right after college to intern with a Broadway General Manager, and after weaseling her way into auditions for one of the productions the office was working on, she landed her first gig performing with country legend Kenny Rogers in his show Christmas from the Heart. Since then, she has toured nationally with Tony n' Tina's Wedding, worked regionally at the McCarter Theatre, performed in a production of A…My Name is Alice which she also co-produced and choreographed, and acted with a number of New York-based companies such as The Vortex, The Gallery Players, HERE, and Black Box Entertainment. She has also had featured roles on the network television programs "Law & Order", "The Education of Max Bickford" with Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden, and "Deadline" with Oliver Platt. 

As a writer/lyricist, Ellie freelances for the New York Hall of Science museum, combining science and theater to create puppet shows and musicals that are both educational and entertaining. In Boca Raton, FL, she worked with the Starmaker Family Theatre where she co-created and co-authored a series of children's musical fairy tales called The Sillies.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival, the flagship program of The National Music Theater Network, is the enormously popular three-week celebration that features the works of the newest generation of musical theatre writers and takes over midtown each fall with a slate of more than 30 full productions and some 100 special events, including readings, workshops, concerts, parties, seminars and master classes.

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