Newsical, Floyd Stearn and BUG Announce Holiday Schedules

BUG Facts
Opened:  Sunday, February 29th
Schedule: Tuesday – Friday at 8 PM, Saturday at 3 & 8 PM, Sunday at 3 & 7:30 PM.   Open-ended. 
Where: The new Off-Broadway 199-seat Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street (at 7th Avenue), New York, NY 10014. (1/9 to Christopher St. /Sheridan Square, or A/C/E/F/V to West 4th Street.)
Tickets: $35 - $60 

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/ LISTING, PLEASE!
Press Contact: Timothy Haskell at 212.307.1118

 

 

 

November 17th, 2004 (New York, NY) –Rick Crom's pop-media satirizing Newsical directed by Donna Drake opened at Upstairs at Studio 54 (located at 254 West 54th Street) on October 7TH. 

 

Now a hit, Newsical announces their holiday schedule:  There Is No Change Over Thanksgiving.  They Will Perform On Thanksgiving!  The amendments to the Christmas schedule is as follows: no 2 PM performance on Wednesday, December 22nd, an added 8 PM performance on Sunday, December 26th (yes, they will be performing both shows on Christmas and will be performing on Christmas Eve), an added 8 PM performance on Tuesday, December 28th, the December 31st performance has moved from 8 to 7 PM, there is no performance on Sunday, January 2nd and Monday, January 3rd and an added performance on Tuesday, January 4th at 8 PM.

 

 Newsical's normal schedule is Mondays and Wednesdays – Saturdays at 8 PM, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 PM and Sundays at 3 PM.  This is an open-ended run. Tickets range from $20 - $60 and can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 212.307.4100 or by going to www.ticketmaster.com.  For more information, please visit www.newsicalthemusical.com.

 

Newsical spoofs both current events as well as perennial media targets in a riotous musical send-up that is updated with new songs every week.  Within several months it could likely be an entirely new show (depending on how active our celebrities and politicians have been in making asses of themselves)!

 

Newsical was created by veteran musical satirist and comedian Rick Crom (Composer and Lyricist).  Rick has created many Off-Broadway and cabaret revues including Oh Fine RSVP, The Subject Was Neurosis, Absolutely Rude, Our Life and Times (1999 MAC & Bistro Awards for Outstanding Musical Revue) and What in the World (2003 Nightlife Award).  His topical material is also featured at the Crystal Palace Theatre in Aspen.

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Press contact: Timothy Haskell at 212.307.1118

 

 

November 12th, 2004 (New York, NY) –Michael Raynor's hit Off-Broadway show, Who is Floyd Stearn? directed by Larry Moss at the 47th Street Theatre (304 West 47th Street between 8th and 9th) announces the following holiday schedule:  Performances normally run Mondays – Saturdays at 8 PM, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 PM. Thanksgiving week there will be no performance on Thursday, November 25th (Thanksgiving) with an added performance on Friday, November 26th at 2.  The end of the year schedule will be: no performance on Friday, December 24th, no 2 PM performance on Saturday, December 25th, and a 2 and 7 PM performance added to Sunday, December 26th.  There will be no matinee performance on Saturday, January 1st at 2 PM. Tickets are $35 - $45 and can be purchased at Tele-charge at 212-239-6200 Groups can be purchased at 212-302-4848 ext. 20.  For more information, please visit www.whoisfloydstearn.com.

 

Who is Floyd Stearn? is the question that Michael Raynor asked himself for over 20 years.  When he received a FedEx note that his estranged father had died 5 years earlier, he decided to find an answer.  Last seeing his father on his 7th birthday, Michael thought that he abandoned him without a second thought, never wanting to see him again.  After a freak meeting with his favorite cousin from when he was little, he discovered that his equally estranged grandmother was still alive and thus his mission began.  The true story unfolds, causing a rebirth in Michael's relationship with the memories of his father through a nearly fantastical odyssey of a back-story he never knew.

 

Director Larry Moss is a Broadway veteran as an actor (Drat! The Cat!, Neil Simon's God's Favorite, Burt Shevelove's So Long 174th Street, and Gene Sak's I Love My Wife) but is probably best known as the director of the Obie, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award Winning Off-Broadway production of The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien (now airing on the Trio network) and more recently Bo Eason's one-man show, Runt of the Litter, which opened in New York at Manhattan Class Company in January 2002.

 

Author/Performer Michael Raynor is a film actor who has had leading roles in the movies Trip Fall (opposite Eric Roberts and the late John Ritter), Reunion, The First Man (opposite Leslie Ann Warren and Heather Graham), A Brother's Kiss (opposite Rosie Perez and John Leguizamo) and FederAl Hill (Deauville Film Festival Winner, Critics Award and Audience award), et al. Michael's television work includes the Tom Hanks/HBO produced Emmy winning mini-series, "From The Earth to the Moon".